| Name | Position | Affiliation | Research Interests | Websites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ulla Rajala | Researcher | Stockholm University | Archaeology, epigraphy, funerary archaeology, settlement archaeology, GIS, network analysis, survey | |
| Carolyn La Rocco | PhD Student, Tutor | University of St Andrews | Roman archaeology, Visigothic archaeology, ‘Christianisation’, material culture of identity | |
| Megan Nutzman | Assistant Professor | Old Dominion University | Roman and late antique Palestine, magic, Greek and Roman religion | |
| Jane Sancinito | Assistant Professor | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Roman social history, Roman economic history, ancient merchants, ancient numismatics | |
| Silvia Orlandi | Associate Professor | Sapienza University of Rome | Latin Epigraphy | |
| 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. | |
| Maureen Carroll | Chair in Roman Archaeology | University of York | Maureen is a Roman archaeologist whose key research interests are Roman burial practices, funerary commemoration, and Roman childhood and family studies. She headed up the British team participating in a large EU-funded multi-national project (DressID) on Roman textiles and clothing, her focus being on dress and identity in funerary portraits on the Rhine and Danube frontiers. A further area of interest is the topic of Roman garden archaeology, on which she has published extensively. More recently, Maureen has studied the role of women in votive religion in early Roman Italy. She has directed excavations in Germany, Italy, Tunisia, and Britain. Her current fieldwork project, funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust, the Roman Society, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and the Rust Family Foundation, is the exploration of a Roman rural estate in imperial possession from the first to the third century A.D. at Vagnari in Puglia (Italy). | |
| Rebecca Sweetman | Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology | University of St Andrews | Greek and Roman Archaeology. Roman and Late Antique Crete and the Peloponnese (especially Sparta). Art and Architecture including; Roman and Late Antique mosaics and architecture of Crete and Greece. Christianization of the Peloponnese. Religious architecture. The Cycladic islands in the Roman and Late Antique periods. Network analysis. | |
| 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/ | |
| Olivia Stewart Lester | Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity | Loyola University Chicago | New Testament, Hellenistic Judaism, Ancient Mediterranean Religion, Gender, Prophecy and Divination | |
| Ersin Hussein | Lecturer in Ancient History | Swansea University | Local identity formation in the Roman provinces, especially the culture and society of Roman Cyprus on the basis of material culture and inscriptions. Also the cultural value of metals. | |
| Marlena Whiting | Researcher | University of Mainz | Late Antique/Byzantine Near East; archaeology; social history; architecture of the 6th c. E Mediterranean, | |
| Cynthia Susalla | Doctoral Student | University of Pennsylvania | Late Republican and Early Imperial Roman History, Ancient History, Social and Intellectual History, Cultural Heritage, Ethics of Cultural Destruction and Preservation, Race and Ethnicity, Barbarians in Roman Conception, Social Identities | |
| Zsuzsa Varhelyi | Associate Professor of Classical Studies | Boston University | The social, political, cultural and religious history of the ancient Mediterranean with a focus on Late Republican Rome and the Roman Empire and questions of individuality and community in this period; Latin historiography and literature; theoretical and methodological questions related to writing history, including practice theory, embodiment and the study of gender; Latin epigraphy, prosopography, paleography, and archaeological, art historical and numismatic evidence for the Roman Empire; psychology and the history of trauma in the ancient world | |
| Becky Martin | Associate Professor of Greek Art and Architecture | Boston University | Greek and Phoenician art and archaeology; contact theory; identity | |
| Sarah Rous | Project Editor | America School of Classica Studies at Athens | Greek and Roman archaeology, upcycling, social memory | |
| Robin Darling Young | Associate Professor | Catholic University of America | Melania(s), early Christianity, Syriac, Syriac Christianity, Armenian, Evagrius, monasticism, asceticism, women, gender | |
| Lisl Walsh | Associate Professor | Beloit College, WI | Historiography, gender and sexuality, history of self, theatre history | |
| Jennifer Swalec | Faculty | Pierrepont School | Greek religion, epigraphy, gender and sexuality, dress and textiles | |
| Simona Stoyanova | Research Fellow | University of Oxford | Greek epigraphy, Latin epigraphy, Palaeography, Digital Humanities | |
| Blossom Stefaniw | Professor | MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society | Late Antiquity, Late Roman Rhetoric, Egyptian monasticism, gender/sexuality | |
| Kathryn Steed | Adjunct Assistant Professor | St. Olaf College | Roman history (especially of the Republic), Greek and Roman law and oratory | |
| Irene Soto | Assistant Professor | University of Michigan | Ancient Economy, Graeco-Roman Egypt, Ceramics and Archaeology, Numismatics, Hellenistic and Roman History | |
| Lekha Shupeck | North Carolina State Director at National Democratic Redistricting Committee | Independent | Roman Law, Roman Republic, Roman Political History | |
| Shayna Sheinfeld | Honorary Research Fellow | University of Sheffield | Second Temple Judaism, Early Christianity, and Rabbinic Judaism | |
| Name | Position | Affiliation | Research Interests | Websites |
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