Scott Lawin Arcenas is a historian and classicist who specializes in the history of democracy and political violence. His first book, Political Violence in Ancient Greece: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Stasis, 500-301 BCE (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) examines the nature, frequency, and intensity of political violence in fifth- and fourth-century Greek city-states. It also introduces new methods and tools to overcome three of the most significant obstacles that confront attempts to study Greek history on a panhellenic scale: the scarcity, ambiguity, and deep biases of the evidentiary record. In recent years, Professor Arcenas has published articles on travel and transportation in the ancient world, digital history, Roman numismatics, Thucydides, and digital pedagogy. At the moment, he is working on three research projects: an introduction to Athenian democracy for The Basics (Routledge), a monograph on epistemic uncertainty in narrative histories of Greek city-states, and a series of articles on the relationship between political violence and the Greek economy.

At the University of Montana, Professor Arcenas teaches courses on Greek history, Roman history, Latin, Greek, the history of democracy, and citizenship in both the ancient and the modern world. He is a passionate advocate of civic education and General Education curricula--both at the University of Montana and elsewhere.