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 Name Position Affiliation Research Interests Websites
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
Candida MossCadbury Professor of TheologyUniversity of Birmingham

martyrdom, early Christianity, resurrection, afterlife, disability in the ancient world, suffering, constructions of the self in antiquity

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/tr/moss-candida.aspx
Sherri BrownAssociate Professor of New TestamentCreighton University

Biblical Studies, Women in the World, Social Justice

https://www.creighton.edu/ccas/theology/faculty/sherribrown/
Ingrid E. HolmbergAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Victoria

Early Greek poetry: Homer, Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and archaic lyric; particular interest in narrative and gender theory.

https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/greekroman/faculty/holmbergingrid.php
Laurel BowmanAssociate Professor of New TestamentUniversity of Victoria

Greek literature (tragedy, Hellenistic literature, especially epigram); literature and gender; classical myth; reception studies; myth in popular culture.

https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/greekroman/faculty/bowmanlaurel.php
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/
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/
Sara MilsteinAssociate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern StudiesUniversity of British Columbia

Literary History of the Hebrew Bible
Biblical and Cuneiform Law
Writing and Scribal Culture in the Ancient Near East
Mesopotamian Literature

https://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/sara-milstein/
Siobhan McElduffAssociate ProfessorUniversity of British Columbia

the history and theory of ancient and modern translation
history of classical reception, especially among the non-elite of the 18th and 19th century
the history of the book
digital humanities

https://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/siobhan-mcelduff/
Charmaine GorrieLecturerUniversity of British Columbia

the art, archaeology, and history of the Severan period
the art and architecture of the Middle Republic
women in antiquity
the reception of the Severan emperors

https://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/charmaine-gorrie/
Susanna BraundProfessorUniversity of British Columbia

The translation history of Virgil, imperial Latin literature including epic and tragedy, reception of Roman antiquity

https://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/susanna-braund/
Natalie SwainGraduate StudentUniversity of Bristol

Elegiac and Augustan Literature, trans-medial narratology, classics in comics and video games, comics narratology and semiotics, Roman sex and sexuality, classical reception studies

Allison SurteesAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Winnipeg

Attic vase painting, ancient art history, Greek and Roman sculpture, Dionysian and satyr imagery, gender and sexuality

http://classics.uwinnipeg.ca/faculty.html
Pauline RipatAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Winnipeg

Roman social history, Roman religion, magic, and divination

http://classics.uwinnipeg.ca/faculty.html
Melissa FunkeAssistant ProfessorUniversity of Winnipeg

Greek tragic fragments, gender and sexuality in antiquity, Greek literature of the Roman Empire, Greek colour terminology

http://classics.uwinnipeg.ca/faculty.html
Jane CahillSenior Scholar (Associate Professor)University of Winnipeg

Mythology, storytelling, Classical folklore, etymology

http://classics.uwinnipeg.ca/faculty.html
Margriet HaagsmaAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Alberta

City planning in Ancient Greece, Domestic Archaeology, Archaeological Method and Theory, The History of Archaeology, Ancient Economy

https://www.ualberta.ca/arts/about/people-collection/margriet-haagsma
Candace RiceAssistant ProfessorBrown University

Mediterranean maritime trade and economic development during the Roman period, Mediterranean ports and harbours, Roman merchants and trading communities, and Roman villas (from pottery to mosaics).

Lisa CooperProfessorUniversity of British Columbia

The Archaeology of ‘Greater Mesopotamia’ (ancient Iraq, Syria, Iran and Turkey)
Ancient Near Eastern urban origins, growth and collapse
History of archaeological exploration and archaeological practice in Mesopotamia, particularly in the early 20th century
Orientalism, colonialism and archaeology
Pottery, and Bronze Age chronologies
The material manifestations of Assyrian imperial growth in the Near East

https://cnrs.ubc.ca/people/lisa-cooper/
Lea StirlingProfessor, Department HeadUniversity of Manitoba

Roman Archaeology, Roman Art, North Africa, Late Antiquity

http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/classics/staff/stirling_lea.html
Sheena FinniganAssistant Professor of History / PhD CandidateWisconsin Lutheran College / University of Wisconsin-Madison

Roman history, family and maternity, networks, material culture, reception studies

https://www.wlc.edu/faculty/sheena-finnigan/; https://history.wisc.edu/people/finnigan-sheena/
Adele ReinhartzProfessorDepartment of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa

New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, Jewish-Christian relations, Religion and film

http://www.adelereinhartz.com/
Jacquelyn ClementsAdjunct InstructorJohns Hopkins University

Greek and Roman archaeology and history; antiquities provenance research; digital art history and linked open data

http://www.jacquelynclements.com
Robyn Le BlancAssistant Professor of Classical StudiesUNC Greensboro

Roman provincial archaeology, numismatics, mythology, religion, Roman and Hellenistic Near East

http://www.robynleblanc.com
Chelsea GardnerAssistant ProfessorAcadia University

Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, Digital Humanities, Cultural Identity, Women in Antiquity, Early Travellers, Animals in the Ancient World, Greek Archaeology, Ancient Lakonia, Ancient Greece, Regional Identity, Epigraphy

https://acadiau.academia.edu/ChelseaAMGardner
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