“All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?” Compared to ...

A. K. M. Skarpelis
A. K. M. Skarpelis is a sociologist and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where she is affiliated with the Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She is at work on her first book, “Making the Master Race.” Her current research is concerned with counterterrorism.