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Ancient Historian, Writer, Associate Professor of History
my apocalypse skills involve looms and boats (she/ella/她)
Brandeis University
Classicist, postdoc @ BU Society of Fellows, 2x gold medalist in puns
PhD student at University of Roehampton
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 is the Belzer Professor of Classical Judaism and the Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Historian of early Christianity who works at the University of Birmingham.
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 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 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.
Classics Librarian at Yale University Library
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.
Ph.d student in classics
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.
Classicist, Hellenist, sports referee, general fan of binging all sorts of TV.
Del is a doctoral Candidate in Classics at NYU.
Researching Late Antiquity/magic/demonology. YouTuber @ Religion For Breakfast
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.
Latinist and Comparatist at ELTE, Budapest.
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 is the Librarian for Slavic and East European Studies at Yale University Library.