| Name | Position | Affiliation | Research Interests | Websites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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). | |
| Ulla Rajala | Researcher | Stockholm University | Archaeology, epigraphy, funerary archaeology, settlement archaeology, GIS, network analysis, survey | |
| Christina Videbech | PhD candidate | University of Bergen | Archaeology, Rome, Late Antiquity | |
| Marja Vierros | Associate Professor | University of Helsinki | Greek language and linguistics, Greek papyri, Greco-Roman Egypt, multilingualism, Digital Classics | |
| Mary McHugh | Professor of Classics | Gustavus Adolphus College | Roman world of 1st cent. C.E.; Roman imperial women, especially Livia and Agrippina the Elder and Agrippina the Younger; Tacitus; Food & Foodways; Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato; Muslim innovation and reception of Greco-Roman antiquity | |
| Kimberly Bauser McBrien | Visiting Assistant Professor | Trinity University | Early Christian literature, New Testament, noncanonical literature, Gospels, historical Jesus, social memory, Apocryphon of James, parody | |
| 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/ |
| Carolyn La Rocco | PhD Student, Tutor | University of St Andrews | Roman archaeology, Visigothic archaeology, ‘Christianisation’, material culture of identity | |
| Laura Carlson Hasler | Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies | Indiana University | Texts, Textuality, and Historiography in Jewish Antiquity, History of the Book, Gender and Sexuality in Antiquity, American Biblical Interpretation | https://religiousstudies.indiana.edu/about/faculty/hasler-laura.html |
| Megan Nutzman | Assistant Professor | Old Dominion University | Roman and late antique Palestine, magic, Greek and Roman religion | |
| Jacqueline Vayntrub | Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible | Yale 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/ |
| 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 | |
| Erin Walsh | Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature | The University of Chicago Divinity School | New Testament Studies; Early Christianity; Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium; biblical interpretation and reception history; asceticism; Syriac language and literature; poetry; gender and sexuality; Christianity and Judaism in Late Antiquity | https://divinity.uchicago.edu/directory/erin-galgay-walsh |
| 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. | |
| Jill Harries | Professor Emerita | University of St Andrews | Late Antiquity, History of Roman Gaul, History of Christianity, History of Women in Antiquity, Roman legal culture and society | |
| 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, | |
| Catharine Edwards | Professor of Classics and Ancient History | Birkbeck College, University of London | My work focuses on the cultural history of the Roman world, particularly Rome in the late republic and early principate. The complex literary strategies of Roman texts (I have worked particularly on Seneca, Ovid and more recently Cicero) are an intrinsic part of that world’s fabric. I am interested in the ways in which conceptions of gender and other aspects of personal and social identity operate through, and are inflected by, language. Another important strand in my research has been the reception of antiquity in later centuries, particularly the C19th, and how receptions of antiquity are implicated in strategies of cultural formation and self-construction (I have published on the reception of Rome in Gibbon, in Mme de Stael, T.B.Macaulay, Nathaniel Hawthorne and in C19th guidebooks, particularly the work of Augustus Hare). | https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8003806/catharine-edwards |
| Meghan Henning | Associate Professor | University of Dayton | afterlife, hell, disability, gender, and healthcare in the ancient world | https://udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/religiousstudies/henning_meghan.php |
| Victoria Leonard | Research Fellow | Coventry University | Late Antiquity; Ancient History; Early Medieval History; Early Christianity; Classics; Religion; Roman History; Historiography; Gender and Sexuality; Women; The Body; Digital Humanities; Network Analysis; Databases; Prosopography; Equality and Diversity in Higher Education; Open Access Knowledge and Learning; Wikipedia | https://coventry.academia.edu/VictoriaLeonard |
| 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 | |
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