James Kierstead is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, where his research and teaching focuses on ancient Greek democracy. He has published a number of scholarly articles and reviews on that topic, and is currently working on a book under the title Associations and Democracy in Classical Athens for Edinburgh University Press, a reworking of the Stanford doctoral thesis that he wrote under the supervision of Professor Josiah Ober. He has also contributed essays on ancient and modern democracy to magazines such as n+1, Quadrant, and Tricycle. His Twitter handle is the presumptuous @Kleisthenes2.