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 Name Position Affiliation Research Interests Websites
Emma NicholsonLecturerUniversity of Exeter

Ancient history, Hellenistic history, Polybius, Macedonia, historiography, ancient Greek history, Philip V of Macedon, the Antigonids, Hellenistic kingship, ancient political thought, cultural politics, rhetoric and interstate relation.

https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/classics/staff/enicholson/; http://exeter.academia.edu/EmmaNicholson
Leonora NevilleJohn W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Professor of Byzantine HistoryUW-Madison

gender, civic religion and religious aspects of political culture, and historical memory and historiography

https://history.wisc.edu/people/neville-leonora/
Susan ShapiroAssociate ProfessorUtah State University

Herodotus, Greek intellectual history, Catullus, classical reception.

https://history.usu.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/susan-shapiro
Denise DemetriouAssociate ProfessorUCSD

ancient Mediterranean history, mobility and migration, identities, and cross-cultural interactions in antiquity.

https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/demetriou.html
Mira BalbergProfessorUC San Diego

Late Antiquity, early rabbinic literature, purity systems, sacrifice, and production of knowledge

https://history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/balberg.html
Kristina SessaProfessorOhio State University

Late antique Roman history, early Christianity in Italy, from OSU website: "Her new research examines religious and cultural responses to war and material decline in the sixth-century West"

https://history.osu.edu/people/sessa.3
Jenna RicePhD CandidateUniversity of Missouri-Columbia

Ancient Greek and Macedonian Military History, Violence, Just War, Animals in Military, Alexander the Great, Macedonian Empire

https://history.missouri.edu/people/rice
Emma DenchProfessorHarvard University

Roman Republican and early Imperial history; questions of identity in the ancient world; Roman imperialism; ancient Italy; the making of the Roman past

https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/emma-dench; https://scholar.harvard.edu/edench
Helen DixonAssistant ProfessorECU

Phoenicia, Phoenician language, ancient Lebanon, ancient Syria, Iron Age archaeology, Near Eastern history, Near Eastern inscriptions, Phoenician history, Phoenician religion, antiquities trade, Levantine archaeology, Middle Eastern history, Mediterranean history, first millennium BCE,

https://history.ecu.edu/helen-dixon/
Susanna ElmSidney H. Ehrman ProfessorUC-Berkeley

Roman Empire, social, economic, legal, cultural history, Augustine, slavery, masculinities, dress, imperial representation, war, ethnicities.

https://history.berkeley.edu/susanna-elm
Maria MavroudiProfessorUC Berkeley

Byzantium and the Arabs; bilinguals in the Middle Ages; Byzantine and Islamic science; the ancient tradition between Byzantium and Islam; Byzantine intellectual history; survival and transformation of Byzantine culture after 1453.

https://history.berkeley.edu/maria-mavroudi
Diliana AngelovaAssociate ProfessorUC Berkeley

Early Christian and Byzantine art. Her scholarship concerns the intersection of two basic issues: continuity and change in the realm of ideas, and the role of women in ancient societies.

https://history.berkeley.edu/diliana-angelova
Alison FutrellAssociate professorUniversity of Arizona

Roman spectacle;
I am interested in the symbols and rituals of power in the Roman Empire, with particular focus on the deployment of gender and material culture in imperial politics. I am also intrigued by representations of ancient Rome in the modern world, in film, literature and art.

https://history.arizona.edu/user/alison-futrell
Heidi MarxProfessorReligion Department University of Manitoba

Late Roman Phiosophy, Medicine, REMEDHE co-founder

https://heidimarxwolf.com/
Annewies van den HoekLecturerHarvard Divinity School

Late Antiquity and Early Christianity. Judaism

https://hds.harvard.edu/people/annewies-van-den-hoek
Jacqueline VayntrubAssociate Professor of Hebrew BibleYale University

Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near East; Early Jewish Literature; Wisdom Literature; Poetry; Aesthetics; Poetics; Philology; Orality; Voice Studies; Prophecy; Political Theology; Epigraphy; Monumentality; History of the Self; History of Emotions; Medical Anthropology

https://hcommons.org/members/vayntrub; https://divinity.yale.edu/faculty-and-research/yds-faculty/jacqueline-vayntrub; https://renewedphilology.yale.edu/
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/
Janette McWilliamLecturer and Senior CuratorUniversity of Queensland

Material culture, Roman children

https://hapi.uq.edu.au/profile/354/janette-mcwilliam
Amelia BrownSenior lecturer, Senior Research FellowUniversity of Queensland

Greek Religion and Identity, Maritime History

https://hapi.uq.edu.au/profile/333/amelia-brown; http://uq.academia.edu/ABrown
Cornelia HornProfessorMartin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

women in the early Church, children in late ancient Christianity, parental roles, family, late antiquity, asceticism, monasticism, hagiography, apocrypha, Syriac language and literature, Armenian language and literature, Georgian language and literature, Coptic, Ethiopic, Christian Arabic, women in the Christian Orient, Jesus and Mary in early Islamic traditions, transmission and reception history of apocryphal traditions in connection with Judaism and early Islam, intersections of hagiography and historiography, Palestine in late antiquity,

https://halle.academia.edu/CorneliaHorn
Yurie HongAssociate ProfessorGustavus Adolphus College

Greek literature; Women, sex, and gender in antiquity; Ancient medicine; Classics and social justice

https://gustavus.edu/profiles/yhong; https://gustavus.academia.edu/YurieHong
Kathryn de LunaAssociate ProfessorGeorgetown University

Africa, Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Deep History, History of Emotions, STS, Archaeology, Historical Linguistics, Ethnography, Historical Methods

https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TYQYAA4/kathryn-de-luna
Lindsay Driediger-MurphyAssociate ProfessorUniversity of Calgary

Roman social and political history, Roman religion, historiography

https://grst.ucalgary.ca/profiles/lindsay-driediger-murphy; https://ucalgary.academia.edu/LindsayDriedigerMurphy
Sarah Brown FerrarioAssociate ProfessorCatholic University

Greek history and literature, particularly of the fifth and fourth centuries BC

https://greek-latin.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/ferrario-sarah/index.html
Judith HallettProfessor EmeritaUniversity of Maryland

women, sexuality and the family in ancient Greek and Roman society; and classical education and reception in the 19th and 20th century Anglophone world.

https://globalmaryland.umd.edu/content/judith-hallett
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