Guests

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...

Dr. Carolyn Willekes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Education at Mount Royal University. Her research examines human-animal interactions in the ancient Mediterranean world. Carolyn’s main focus is on equids, and her work explores the social, cultural, and economic role of equ...

Tom Horne is an archaeologist, author, editor, historical consultant, podcaster, guide, and heritage-focused social media and communications manager. He earned his PhD at the University of Glasgow and is an expert on the Vikings, with a specific focus on Viking-Age trade and silver bullion economies...

Damián Fernández is a historian of Late Antiquity and Associate Professor at Northern Illinois University. He is currently working on two different projects related to Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia. The first project is a monographic study of rebellions and coups in the Visigothic Kingdom b...

Dr Tom Morcom is Associate Lecturer in Old Norse Language and Literature at University College London. His research specialism has been primarily in saga literature, with a particular focus on narratological engagements with the structure and style of Norse texts. His most recent articles 'Dreams, S...