Guests

David Schenker has been at the University of Missouri since 1991, teaching just about every Greek course on the books, and a few of the Latin ones. He previously served as department chair for 9 years and he is currently the director of undergraduate studies. His research interests have shifted rece...

Salima Ikram is Distinguished University Professor and holder of the Amelia Peabody Chair in Egyptology at the American University in Cairo and has excavated in Egypt for more than 30 years as well as working in the Sudan, Turkey, and Greece. Her specialties include animals in ancient Egypt, mummifi...

Jenn Finn (M.A. Columbia University, M.A. University of Michigan, PhD University of Michigan, PhD Ludwig Maximilians-Universität) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Classical Studies Department at Loyola University Chicago. She works on ancient warfare, Alexander the Great, cross-cultural conta...

Petra M. Creamer is an archaeologist of the ancient Near Eastern world who researches the impact of empires on their subjects. She is an assistant professor in the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies department at Emory University, and she obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's ...

Jeffrey received his Ph.D. in Egyptology from UCLA in 2025. His research focuses on ritual and religion in Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt, particularly regarding how elites utilized ritual and performance to communicate ideologies of power and how complex administrative institutions developed ...

Curtis Dozier is an internationally recognized expert on how extremists and hate groups invoke Greco-Roman antiquity to promote their politics. He documents examples of such appropriations at his award-winning website Pharos: Doing Justice to the Classics, and is the author of the first book-length ...

Jonathan Todd Ross is an American voice actor and writer. He is known for providing voices on properties for 4Kids Entertainment, Central Park Media, Media Blasters, as well as audiobooks. Ross is best known as the voice of Marik Ishtar and Yami Marik in the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime. He also voiced Slade Pri...

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...