| Name | Position | Affiliation | Research Interests | Websites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raffaella Bucolo | Research Fellow / Adjunct Lecturer | British School at Rome; Università di Roma Sapienza; Tor Vergata | History of Archaeology; History of Collections; Roman Sculpture; Christian Iconography | https://uniroma.academia.edu/RaffaellaBucolo |
| Niki Clements | Watt & Lilly Jackson Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies | Rice University | History of Catholic thought and practice, Christianity in late antiquity, asceticism and mysticism, religious ethics, philosophy of religion, theories and methods in the study of religion, religion, and science | http://rice.academia.edu/NikiClements |
| Laurence Totelin | Senior Lecturer | Cardiff University | History of Science, History of Medicine, History of Technology, Greek history, Roman History, Classics, History of gynaecology, History of pharmacology, History of botany, Gender history, Greek and Roman Science, Technology and Medicine. My work is influenced by gender theory, and I have a particular interest in gynaecological treatments, aphrodisiacs, and the properties of milk (especially breast-milk). | https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/73040-totelin-laurence; http://cardiff.academia.edu/LaurenceTotelin |
| Paula Debnar | Professor | Mount Holyoke College | Homeric Greek, Greek rhetoric, history and historiography; ancient ethnicity; Greek tragedy | https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/paula-debnar; http://mtholyoke.academia.edu/PaulaDebnar |
| Alicia Colson | Independent Researcher | I am an archaeologist and a ethnohistorian with a long standing research interest in the digital humanities and computing. I've undertaken extensive fieldwork in Canada, the UK, US, and Antigua. I'm currently developing projects in various places globally with colleagues, finishing a manuscript on the past, present and future of higher education in the US, and writing articles on various topics in archaeology and ethnohistory. | https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/AliciaColson | |
| Andrea Brock | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow | University of St Andrews | I am an environmental archaeologist with particular expertise in historical ecology and palaeolandscape reconstruction. My current work integrates the literary record on early Rome with geoarchaeological evidence, in order to produce an environmental and topographical reconstruction of Rome’s river valley. I have been involved in several archaeological excavations and surveys, most recently in Rome. As director of the Forum Boarium Project, I have conducted a coring survey of the city’s original river harbour and harbour sanctuary. Among other findings, my research is revealing new insights on the role of environmental stress—in particular frequent flooding and rapid sedimentation in the river valley—on Rome’s urbanization process, as well as the scale of landscape change that occurred alongside urban development. I also serve as Director of the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies: https://caes.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ | |
| Anysia Merakos | PhD Candidate | UC Berkeley | I work chiefly on Late Antique intellectual history and the material culture of the later Roman Empire. My research focuses on the power of images and perceptions of piety and the body in Late Antique thought. I am primarily interested in manifestations of holiness in the bodies, portraits, and biographies of pagan and Christian holy men and women. I have recently developed an interest in the relationship between children and parents in Late Antiquity and the role of the family in Christian asceticism. Additional areas of interest include urban topography, the reception of classical texts (Homer especially) in the later Roman and Byzantine empires, and Greek folk culture. | http://ahma.berkeley.edu/people/students/anysia-metrakos |
| Eleri Cousins | Lecturer in Roman History | University of Lancaster | I work on the role played by ritual and religion (broadly defined!) in the construction of provincial society and identity in the Roman Empire, in particular Britain, Gaul, and Germany. My research sits at the intersection of ancient history and archaeology, and I am especially interested in the connections between ritual and landscape in the Roman world. My previous work focused on the Roman sanctuary at Bath and my first book, The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire, was published by Cambridge University Press in January 2020. My current major research project explores religious practices in the Alps during the Roman period. In this work, I combine an emphasis on the lived experience of ancient religion with archaeological approaches to landscape to explore how Alpine populations used, and were affected by, the mountains in their engagement with the divine. In addition to this project, I also have active research interests in the dynamics of religion and society on Hadrian’s Wall, in Roman provincial art, and in 18th and 19th century antiquarian culture in Britain. | |
| Marice Rose | Associate Professor | Fairfield University | Images of women and slaves in late Roman domestic decoration, female hairstyles in ancient Rome, and classical reception and art history pedagogy | https://www.fairfield.edu/lassochannel/academic/profile/index.lasso?id=188 |
| Virginia Closs | Associate Professor | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Imperial Latin Poetry, especially Neronian and Flavian; Poetic influences in Latin Historiography; Latin epigraphy | https://www.umass.edu/classics/member/virginia-closs; http://umass.academia.edu/GinnaCloss |
| Claire Millington | PhD Candidate | King's College, London | Imperial Roman army | - |
| Lien Foubert | Assistant Professor | Radboud University Nijmegen | Imperial Women, women's mobility in the Roman world | http://www.ru.nl/geschiedenis/wie_wat_waar/medewerkers/medewerkers/foubert/; http://radboud.academia.edu/LienFoubert |
| Lavanya Vemsani | Professor | Shawnee State University | India, History; Asian Studies; Asian American Studies; World History; History of Religions; Asian Religions; Hinduism and Jainism; History of India; Gender Studies; Gandhi and Modern India. | http://www.shawnee.edu/academics/social-sciences/faculty/lvemsani.aspx |
| Anisha Saxena | Assistant Professor | Onondaga Community College | India, South Asia, Gender, Violence, Art History, Sacred Geography, Early Medieval Temples, Jainism, contested sacred spaces in India, specifically in Kutch, Udaipur, and Jodhpur. | |
| Giovanna Ceserani | Associate Professor of Classics | Stanford University | Intellectual history of classical scholarship, historiography and archaeology from the eighteenth century onwards | https://classics.stanford.edu/people/giovanna-ceserani |
| Susan Holman | John R. Eckrich Chair and Professor, Religion and the Healing Arts | Valparaiso University | intersections of religion and health in history, cross-generational voices, and material culture | https://www.valpo.edu/christ-college/susan-holman/; https://ptochotrophia.wordpress.com/ |
| Oya Topçuoğlu | Assistant Professor | Northwestern University | Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian art and archaeology, Anatolian archaeology, looting and illegal trafficking of antiquities, archaeology and politics in the Middle East, archaeology and politics in Turkey, social identity and cultural exchange, and the effects of political change and ideology on the material record of the ancient Middle East. | |
| Laura Miller | Professor | University of Missouri–St. Louis | Japan, Japanese history, Japanese culture, the divination industry, the beauty industry, linguistic anthropology, | http://umsl.academia.edu/LauraMiller; https://www.umsl.edu/~umslhistory/Faculty/miller.html |
| Christina Laffin | Associate Professor | University of British Columbia | Japan, Medieval Japanese women, literary history, Medieval travel diaries; women’s education and socialization before 1600; poetic practices and waka culture; theories of travel, gender, and autobiography; noh theatre; and comparative approaches to medieval literature. | https://asia.ubc.ca/persons/christina-laffin/ |
| Kristin Bocchine | PhD candidate; Teaching Fellow | University of North Texas | Jews, Judaism, and Judaea in Greco-Roman sources | https://facultyinfo.unt.edu/faculty-profile?profile=kab0472 |
| Jessica Dello Russo | Executive Director | International Catacomb Society | Judaism and Christianity in Roman-Early Byzantine Period | http://independent.academia.edu/JessicaDelloRusso |
| Charlotte Köckert | Professor | Unversität Heidelberg | Konversion im antiken Christentum Asketische Bewegungen im 4. und 5. Jahrhundert Christliche Theologie im Kontext der antiken Philosophie Christliche Kosmologie und Anthropologie in Antike und Mittelalter Auslegungsgeschichte der Bibel | http://www.theologie.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaet/personen/koeckert.html |
| Amy Hughes | Assistant Professor of Theology | Gordon College | Late Ancient Greek East, Trinitarian theology and Christology, Origen, Methodius, Gregory of Nyssa, women in early Christianity, gender, virginity | http://www.gordon.edu/amyhughes |
| Judith Evans Grubbs | Professor | Emory University | Late ancient law | http://history.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/evans-grubbs-judith.html |
| Corisande Fenwick | Associate Professor | University College London | Late antique & Islamic history and archaeology; North Africa and western Mediterranean; empires & imperialism | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/staff/fenwick; https://ucl.academia.edu/CorisandeFenwick; https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/people/past/fenwick.html |
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