Guests

Christian Rollinger is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Trier, Germany. His research interests include late antique (ca. AD 400-640) imperial ideology and aulic ceremonial, the social and cultural history of the late Roman republic, Roman economic history, late Roman political...

Joel Christensen (he/his) is Professor of Classical and early Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis University where he also serves as Senior Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs. Previously Joel served as Chair of Classical Studies and Chair of the Brandeis Faculty Senate. Joel previously taught for n...

Clare Downham studied at St Andrews and Cambridge. She worked as a research scholar in Dublin and as a lecturer in Celtic and History in Aberdeen before starting at Liverpool in 2010. Her publications have focused on Viking Age history and contact across the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages. Her most re...

Originally from Glasgow, Scotland, Hannah Čulík-Baird received her BA in Literae Humaniores from Oxford University in 2011 and her Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Southern California in 2017. Her research aims to address issues of epistemic and racial injustice in antiquity. In several articl...

Hans Bork earned his PhD at UCLA. His research specialties concern Latin language and literature from often overlooked time-periods or genres: Archaic and Old Latin epigraphy; Latin comedy, especially Plautus; non-standard Latin of all periods; Late Latin and Proto-Romance. His other speciality area...

Christopher Tin is a two-time Grammy-winning composer of concert and media music. His music has been performed and premiered in many of the world's most prestigious venues: Royal Albert Hall, Sydney Opera House, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl, the United Nations and Carnegie Hall.
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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...

Alexandra Schultz is an assistant professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. She specializes in ancient Greek literature and in the cultural and intellectual history of Greco-Roman antiquity. Her current book project, The Mirage of Alexandria, argues that the modern understanding of ancient librari...

Grace Erny is an assistant professor in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and affiliated faculty at the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology and the Archaeological Research Facility. Her research focuses primarily on the archaeology and history of Greece and ...

Jane Draycott is a Roman historian and archaeologist, and the author of Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen and Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome. She was awarded a BA (Hons) in Archaeology and Ancient History and an MA in Ancient History fr...

Richard Cole is Lecturer in Digital Classics at the University of Bristol and co-Director of the Bristol Digital Game Lab. His research focuses on how the history and culture of antiquity intersects with new media, in particular video games, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. From 2020-20...

Robin Pierson is a professional podcaster. His show “The History of Byzantium” tells the story of the Roman Empire from the collapse of the West in 476 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The show was created in 2012 to continue the narrative established by Mike Duncan’s wonderful podcast “The Hi...