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 Name Position Affiliation Research Interests Websites
Catherine BoneshoAssistant ProfessorUniversity of California, Los Angeles

Early Judaism, Late Antiquity, Classical Rabbinic Literature, Aramaic, Palmyra, and Festivals

https://hcommons.org/members/cbonesho/profile/edit/group/1/
Danielle Steen FatkinAssociate ProfessorKnox College

Archaeology and history of the Roman and Byzantine Near East; Second Temple Judaism; Dhiban, Jordan; excavation; critical theory; cultural heritage and economic development; critical pedagogy

http://daniellesteen.com
Jaclyn MaxwellAssociate ProfessorOhio University

Religion and Society in Late Antiquity; sermons; social attitudes and social relations; laypeople; John Chrysostom; Cappadocian Fathers

https://www.ohio.edu/cas/history/contact/profiles.cfm?profile=maxwelj1
Shelly MatthewsProfessor of New TestamentBrite Divinity School, Texas Christian University

Early Christianity, Feminist Historiography, New Testament World

https://brite.edu/staff/shelly-matthews/
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
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/
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
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.

Lavanya VemsaniProfessorShawnee 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
Laurence TotelinSenior LecturerCardiff 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
Oya TopçuoğluAssistant ProfessorNorthwestern 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.

Katie Stringer ClaryAssistant ProfessorCoastal Carolina University

public history, museums, accessibility, access, inclusion, human remains, cultural heritage, museum history, museum ethics, south carolina, ancient world, egypt,

Darja Šterbenc ErkerGastprofessorin, Wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterinHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Latin literature and religion, gender, antiquarian literature, Ovid's Fasti, Roman satire, Religion in Rome and in the Roman World; Gender Studies; Ritual Studies; Roman Social, Cultural and Literary History (Republic, early Empire); Ovid, Dionysius from Halicarnassus, Latinistik und Gender, Historische Anthropologie der Antike, Kultur- und Religionsgeschichte Roms (Ritualtheorien, Medien und Religion), Antiquarische Forschung, Mythos und Religion in der römischen Literatur, Religionsphilosophie, Auslotung der Grenzen, Austragen von Konflikten: Religion als Argument in der Antike (Strategische Initiativförderung Internationalisierung, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

https://www.klassphil.hu-berlin.de/de/personen/sterbenc; http://hu-berlin.academia.edu/DarjaSterbenc
Joy SchroederProfessorCapital University

Reformation, Luther, church history, Middle Ages, sexual violence, rape, domestic violence, biblical interpretation, feminism in medieval thought and Old Testament studies.

https://www.capital.edu/academics/faculty/joy-schroeder/; http://www.tlsohio.edu/faculty/20-faculty/faculty-profiles/51-schroeder
Aimee SchofieldHonorary Visiting FellowUniversity of Leicester

ancient warfare, greek warfare, roman warfare, catapults, ballistae, ballistas, history of science and technology, women and war, siege warfare,

https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people; http://leicester.academia.edu/AimeeSchofield
Anisha SaxenaAssistant ProfessorOnondaga 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.

Jane SancinitoVisiting Professor and Post-Doc FellowOberlin College

Roman History, Roman economy, numismatics, Ancient History, social history, Merchants, Parthia, 3rd century CE, ancient economic history, and ancient numismatics.

http://oberlin.academia.edu/JaneSancinito
Elena H. Sánchez LópezPrograma de Reincorporacion del Plan PropioUniversidad de Granada

Roman Archaeology, Roman Hispania, Water History, Water Management, Uses of Water, Crafts in the Ancient Roman World, Urbanism, Cultural Heritage, Excavation, Ancient History, Landscape Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Roman Archaeology, Archaeological Prospection, Material Culture, Historical Archaeology, Ancient Architecture, Ancient Civilizations, Mediterranean Archaeology.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elena_H_Lopez; http://granada.academia.edu/ElenaS%C3%A1nchez; https://www.ugr.es/en/universidad/organizacion/entidades/departamento-de-prehistoria-y-arqueologia
Sara RonisAssociate ProfessorSt. Mary's University, San Antonio

Rabbinic literature, Babylonian Talmud, Sasanian Babylonia, Demonology, Gender and Sex in Late Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Cultural Interaction in Late Antiquity, Judaism, early Christianity, and the religions of Late Antique Iran, non-normative rituals, rabbinic hermeneutics and jurisprudence.

https://www.stmarytx.edu/academics/faculty/sara-ronis/; https://sararonis.com/; http://stmarytx.academia.edu/SaraRonis
Mar RodriguezGraduate StudentComplutense University of Madrid

Greece, Sparta, gender studies, women, Greek religion, landscape,

https://www.ucm.es/directorio?id=28039; https://ucm.academia.edu/MªdelMarRodr%C3%ADguezAlcocer
Helen RocheAssistant ProfessorDurham University

Germany, Austria, Italy, National Socialism, fascism, Nazi Germany, Third Reich, elite schools, oral history, education history, classical reception, philhellenism, Napola, Prussia, Germany, Austria, Italy, Sparta, German history from the nineteenth century onwards; National Socialism; Fascism, Austrian history during the inter-war period; comparative fascism studies, History of childhood and history of education, especially German elite education, Youth exchange during the twentieth century; Anglo-German relations, History and memory in post-war Germany, Classical reception in general, and German philhellenism in particular, Greco-German relations from the eighteenth century to the present, Humanistic education in Nazi Germany, Historical and historiographical work on elements of ancient Greek history.

Christina RiggsProfessorDurham University

Egypt, Ancient Egypt, United Kingdom Egypt, ancient Egypt, archaeology, photography, from the history of archaeology and Egyptology, to museum studies and heritage, to all aspects of ancient Egyptian art and material culture studies.

https://www.uea.ac.uk/art-history/people/profile/c-riggs#researchTab; http://eastanglia.academia.edu/ChristinaRiggs
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