Guests

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...

David Alan Parnell is a Professor of History and has been teaching courses in ancient and medieval Mediterranean history at IU Northwest since 2012. He has received the Founder’s Day Teaching Award, multiple Trustees’ Teaching Awards, and an Online Teaching Award. He is the author of Belisarius & An...

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...