Hakan is a doctoral candidate in our department. He studies Roman imperial history, early Christianity, and the philosophy of history, with particular attention to how Greek and Latin texts respond when established forms of identity, time, and historical meaning begin to fail. His dissertation, Wounded Identities: The Pressure of the Empire and the Limits of Meaning, reads Josephus, Paul, and Seneca together and argues that empire becomes visible through breaks within the structures by which people make sense of themselves and their world. His other work includes research on late antique religious time, Roman social history, and inscriptions from Asia Minor.