He earned his doctorate at the City University of New York Graduate Center with a dissertation entitled "Bold with the Bow and Arrow: Amazons and the Ethnic Gendering of Martial Prowess in Ancient Greek and Asian Cultures." He specializes in the history of gender and sexuality in ancient Greek, Hellenistic, and South Asian contexts and has also published articles on gender, sexuality, and disability in the ancient Mediterranean, as well as on Sappho in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance.