Undergraduate from UT Knoxville in history and graduate degree of classical archaeology from Florida State University. Worked in Greece at the Institute of Aegean Prehistory on Crete doing database work on top of archaeological research and the archaeological field school at the Agora in Athens. Also worked as a research assistant on the Corinth Computer Project at the Museum of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. Have taught Latin for 14 years, 12 in 1-to-1 tablet PC schools.