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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.