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Sarah E. Bond

Ancient Historian, Writer, Associate Professor of History

Nandini Pandey

Associate Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins, author of The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome, writing a book on Roman diversity. Check out essays, podcasts, and events at nandinipandey.com. All opinions my own.

Stephanie Wong

my apocalypse skills involve looms and boats (she/ella/她)

Monica H. Green

Monica H. Green is a historian of medicine, specializing on the European Middle Ages and the global spread of infectious diseases. She is currently working on a book on the Second Plague Pandemic.

Solange Ashby

Solange Ashby received her Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. She is currently a President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA.

Jordan D. Rosenblum

Jordan D. Rosenblum is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Amy Pistone

Classicist, Hellenist, sports referee, general fan of binging all sorts of TV.

Nadya Williams

Nadya Williams is a historian of war in the Ancient Mediterranean and of Late Antique Christianity, although usually not in the same project. She is currently completing a book on cultural Christians in the early churches.

Ábel Tamás

Latinist and Comparatist at ELTE, Budapest.

Jermaine Bryant

Jermaine Bryant is a PhD student in the department of Classics at Princeton University. He primarily works on Latin Literature and Roman History, and also maintains interests in Classical reception, especially black reception, and hip-hop.

Anna Arays

Anna Arays is the Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies at Yale University Library.

Colin McCaffrey

Classics Librarian at Yale University Library

Joel Christensen

Brandeis University

Javal Coleman

Ph.d student in classics

Aimee Hinds Scott

PhD student at University of Roehampton

Del A. Maticic

Del is a doctoral Candidate in Classics at NYU.

Andrew Mark Henry

Researching Late Antiquity/magic/demonology. YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast

Candida Moss

Historian of early Christianity who works at the University of Birmingham.

Alex Magnolia

Alex Magnolia is a historian of the Medieval Roman Empire, sometimes referred to as “Byzantium.” He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, where he has taught courses on the Middle Ages and the Vikings.

Evan McDuff

Evan is an archaeology PhD student at Boston University. They study exotic spices in the Roman Empire and the complex relationship between what we eat and who we are.

Jeremy Swist

Jeremy Swist is a lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. He holds a PhD. in Classics from the University of Iowa. He researches late antiquity, the emperor Julian, and the reception of antiquity in metal music.