Tyler Creer specializes in ancient Greek and Roman history, with emphases in the cultural history of Iron Age and Archaic Greece, the representation of foreign peoples in Roman historical and ethnographic writing, and the culture and performance of medieval Japanese war tales. He earned a BA in History and Classics in 2012 as well as a MA in Comparative Studies in 2014 from Brigham Young University, and completed his PhD in Ancient Greek and Roman History in 2019 at the University of Virginia. His research, which has been supported by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, compares the Iliad and its historical context with that of the Heike monogatari, a seminal medieval Japanese war tale, in order to illuminate our unfortunately dim understanding of Iron Age Greece. Additionally, he has also published several articles on Roman historians' tendentious use of ethnography to create artificial representations of foreign peoples, especially the Celts of northern Europe and several groups in the Near East.
