Guests

Roel Konijnendijk (PhD UCL, 2015) is Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He has previously taught at Birkbeck, Warwick and Edinburgh. His research is focused on Classical Greek warfare and its modern scholarly tradition, but he also studies and teaches on Atheni...

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Cricket Leigh grew up in Kalamazoo, MI, moving to Chicago at 16 to attend The Chicago Academy for the Arts. Cricket received her BFA w/ honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, studying at The Stella Adler Conservatory & The Experimental Theatre Wing (Amsterdam, Netherlands). After moving to Los ...

Dan-el Padilla Peralta is Professor of Classics and Associated Faculty in African American Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of Undocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League (Penguin 2015), Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle...

Gigi Berardi teaches food and writing classes at Western Washington University and in Global Learning Programs. A Fulbright scholar, she holds three graduate degrees, but considers herself mostly a professional writer. She has authored over 300 popular articles and reviews for print and broadcast me...

Kate Cook is currently a Lecturer in Greek Culture at King's College London. Her research focuses on gender and language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical (including classical) video games. Her publications include Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy, the co-edited Women in Classical Video Ga...

Sarah E. Bond is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. She is interested in late Roman history, epigraphy, late antique law, Roman topography and GIS, Digital Humanities, and the socio-legal experience of ancient marginal peoples. She earned a PhD in History ...

Alexandra Dold is a literary scholar and historian. Her PhD thesis explored Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels as public history, which she developed through an interdisciplinary approach, applying concepts such as metafiction and intertextuality to Gabaldon's work. Alex shares her passion for Outlan...

Alexander Vandewalle is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University (Belgium) who specializes in the reception of antiquity, history, and mythology in video games. For his PhD thesis (2024), he investigated the characterization of Greek mythological figures in games. He has previously published or...

Hailey Beaupre, also known as The Sassenach Historian, is a Scottish historian, tour guide, and aspiring author, now based in Scotland after moving from America to pursue her career. She leads immersive private tours that bring Scotland’s history, culture, landscapes, and hidden stories to life. Whi...

Naomi Weiss is Professor of Classics at Harvard University. She has published widely on archaic and classical Greek poetry and performance culture, especially drama. She is the author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater (University of California Press 2018) and...

Lindsey Mazurek is an Associate Professor of Classics at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research explores questions of ethnicity, religion, landscape, and change in the Roman provinces, particularly how the inhabitants of Rome’s provinces reconfigured their own ideas of themselves and their wor...