Guests

Eduardo M. García-Molina (B.A. University of South Florida, M.A. Florida State University, Ph.D. University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor of Classics. He is an Ancient Historian specializing in the Seleukid Empire, the largest of the polities that emerged after the death of Alexander the Gre...

Suzanne Smith is a double Emmy Award winning Casting Director for Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Suzanne works out of the UK and is based in London. She works primarily in television and feature films and has worked in theatre. Suzanne started her career as an assistant to the late great Rose Tob...

Alyson Melzer is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington, with a PhD from Stanford University. Her research and teaching interests lie primarily in Greek literary cultures, performance, and aesthetics. She has published work on theater and literary criticism, and is currently comple...

Christopher Baron is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN, USA). He specializes in the study of ancient Greek and Roman historical writing and the history of the Mediterranean world during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial era (roughly, 334 BCE–284 CE). He...

Chance Bonar is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, whose research and teaching primarily focus on ancient Mediterranean religion, slavery, antisemitism, gender-based violence, and theories of authorship. He has two forthcoming projects: God, Slavery, and Earl...

Aisha Dad is currently a Research Affiliate at the Carolina Asia Center and the Director of the Classics Gaming Collaborative. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. Her research encompasses myth and performance in Graeco-Roman, Classical Persian, and South Asian lit...

Troy Baker is an icon in today's gaming landscape. He is a prolific, prestigious multi-hyphenate talent best known for his standout leading performances as Joel in The Last of Us Parts I & II, Booker Dewitt in Bioshock Infinite among many others in franchises known and loved around the world. His pe...

Christian Langer, FRHistS earned his doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB) with a dissertation on deportations in ancient Egyptian history between 1550 BCE and 1069 BCE. From 2021 to 2023 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Peking University, School of Arts. His research interests revolve ar...

Johanna Hanink is John Rowe Workman Professor of Classics and the Humanistic Tradition at Brown University, where she is a member of the Department of Classics and the Program in Modern Greek Studies. Since 2024, she has hosted the academic podcast Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas.

Dr. Dunstan Lowe is Senior Lecturer in Latin Literature. He did his first two Classics degrees at Birmingham University, then a PhD at Cambridge University. Most of Dunstan’s research is on Roman literature, especially the poets Virgil and Ovid. His published work in this area includes a book called...

Christopher B. Zeichmann teaches ancient history and religious studies at Toronto Metropolitan University. His books include Radical Antiquity (Pluto, 2025), Queer Readings of the Centurion at Capernaum (SBL Press, 2022), and The Roman Army and the New Testament (Fortress Academic, 2018).

Dr. Caroline Arbuckle MacLeod is an Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at St Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan, in Canada. She completed her PhD at UCLA, through the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. Her main research focuses on the history of craftspeop...