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 Name Position Institutional Affiliation Research Interests Websites
Angela ZiskowskiAssociate ProfessorCoe College

Greek archaeology; Archaic Greece, polis formation, history of Corinth, pottery and iconography, identity and ethnicity

http://www.coe.edu/academics/history/history_faculty
Erika Zimmermann DamerAssociate ProfessorClassics Department, University of Richmond

sexuality and gender; social history of the late Roman Republic and early Empire; Graffiti

http://classics.richmond.edu/faculty/edamer/index.html
Sonia ZakrzewskiAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Southampton

bioarchaeology, human remains, medicine, health, disease, disability, migration, race, Egypt, Iberia, Anglo-Saxon, skeletons, death, biological anthropology, race, human diversity and variability, and the study of the human body to understand aspects of migration and mobility, diet, identity, religious practice and social organisation in past populations.

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/about/staff/srz.page; http://soton.academia.edu/SoniaZakrzewski
Shana ZaiaUniversitätsassistentin (Assistant Professor)University of Vienna

Assyriology, Ancient Near East, Neo-Assyrian Period, State Religion, Ancient Iraq, Polytheism, Mesopotamia, Empire, Official Ideology, Religious History, Ancient Urbanism, Modern Reception of Ancient History

https://shanazaia.com/
Cristiana ZaccagninoAssistant ProfessorQueen's University

Magna Graecia, Greek archaoelogy, classical tradition

http://www.queensu.ca/classics/cristiana-zaccagnino
Rachel Yuen-CollingridgePostdoctoral ResearcherMacquarie University

Papyrology, lexicology, cognitive history, history of Greek philosophy, Renaissance and later reception of the ancient world, history of early Christianity, ancient magic

Robin Darling YoungAssociate ProfessorCatholic University of America

Melania(s), early Christianity, Syriac, Syriac Christianity, Armenian, Evagrius, monasticism, asceticism, women, gender

Florence YoonAssistant Professor of Greek Language and LiteratureUniversity of British Columbia

Mythology, Greek tragedy; silent figures, offstage figures, and the representation of the absent; anonymity and naming; the transformation of traditional mythical figures into unique literary characters

https://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/florence-yoon/
Liv Mariah YarrowProfessorBrooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

Numismatics, Historiography, Late Republic, symbols and discourses of power

Jessica WrightAssistant Professor of Classics and Medical HumanitiesUniversity of Texas at San Antonio

Late Antiquity; ancient medicine, science, and philosophy; early Christianity; history of the body; Classics and social justice

https://utsa.academia.edu/JessicaLWright
Alex WoodsSenior LecturerMacquarie University

Ancient Egypt, ancient Egyptian visual culture, mortuary landscapes, social memory, art history and Old and Middle Kingdom studies, archaeology,

https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/alex-woods; https://mq.academia.edu/AlexandraWoods
Serena WitzkeVisiting Assistant ProfessorWesleyan University, Classics Department

Roman comedy and elegy • Roman historians • Greek comedy • ancient sex and gender • classical reception

http://switzke.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
Christina WilliamsonSenior LecturerGroningen University

Hellenistic period, Asia Minor, sanctuaries

https://www.rug.nl/staff/c.g.williamson/
Nadya WilliamsProfessorUniversity of West Georgia

Greek and Roman military history

https://www.westga.edu/administration/profile.php?emp_id=90977
Arden WilliamsSessional LecturerUniversity of British Columbia

• Greek social history; Late-Classical & Early Hellenistic Athens

• Women in the public & private world of Athens

• Greek epigraphy

• Economics of Cult; the leasing of sacred land in the Greek city-state

https://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/arden-williams/
Kate WilkinsonAssociate professorTowson University, US

Women in Early Christianity, female asceticism, gender and religious rhetoric, free will and theology. Feminist Historiography, Feminist Ethnography, Comparative Study of Religion.

https://www.towson.edu/cla/departments/womengender/kwilkinson.html
Julia WilkerAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania

Hellenistic and Roman Near East, Judaea, Jewish history, interstate relations, late classical Greece

http://www.classics.upenn.edu/people/julia-wilker
Bronwen WickkiserProfessorWabash College

Classical Greek history, Greek religion and medicine, Augustan Rome

https://www.wabash.edu/academics/profiles/home.cfm?site_folder=classics&facname=wickkisb
Marlena WhitingResearcherUniversity of Mainz

Late Antique/Byzantine Near East; archaeology; social history; architecture of the 6th c. E Mediterranean,
epigraphy, graffiti, pilgrimage, travel, road networks, monasticism, women, lived religion.

Heidi WendtAssistant Professor of Religions, Greco-Roman World, a joint appointment with the Department of History and Classical StudiesMcGill University

Religious developments of the Roman imperial period, with a focus on situating Jewish/Judean and Christian actors and phenomena in their Greco-Roman milieu.

https://www.mcgill.ca/classics/faculty/heidi-wendt; https://www.mcgill.ca/religiousstudies/heidi-wendt
Kathryn WelchAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Sydney

Republic to Empire, Appian, Pompeii, Topography of Rome

http://sydney.edu.au/arts/classics_ancient_history/staff/profiles/kathryn.welch.php
Erika WeibergResearcherUppsala University

Archaic and classical Greek poetry, especially epic and drama
Women, gender, and class in antiquity

Lindsey WeglarzProgram Coordinator, Graduate Enrollment InitiativesUniversity of Chicago

ancient Nubia, ancient Egypt, women, identity, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, statistical analysis, burial practices, cultural entanglement, colonization, archaeology, New Kingdom Egypt, Sudan, Egyptianization, acculturation

http://chicago.academia.edu/LindseyWeglarz
Kathryn WeberGraduate StudentCornell University

Georgia, South Caucasus, Bronze Age, prehistory, archaeology, animals, human-animal relationships, mobile pastoralism, political authority, social complexity, inequality, mobility, power and social Inequality, political and mortuary landscapes, Isotopes, Social Zooarchaeology

http://anthropology.cornell.edu/kathryn-weber; http://cornell.academia.edu/KathrynONeilWeber
Meredith WarrenSenior Lecturer in Ancient HistoryUniversity of Sheffield

Greece, Rome, Asia Minor Early, Judaism, Early Christianity, ancient Mediterranean religions, gospel of John, Revelation, apocalypse, ancient meal practice.

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