Guests
Dr. Dan-El Padilla Peralta
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
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...
Dr. Kate Cook
Kate Cook is currently a Lecturer in Greek Culture at King's College London. Her research focuses on gender and language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical (including classical) video games. Her publications include Praise and Blame in Greek Tragedy, the co-edited Women in Classical Video Ga...
Dr. Sarah Bond
Sarah E. Bond is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. She is interested in late Roman history, epigraphy, late antique law, Roman topography and GIS, Digital Humanities, and the socio-legal experience of ancient marginal peoples. She earned a PhD in History ...
Dr. Alex Dold
Alexandra Dold is a literary scholar and historian. Her PhD thesis explored Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels as public history, which she developed through an interdisciplinary approach, applying concepts such as metafiction and intertextuality to Gabaldon's work. Alex shares her passion for Outlan...
Dr. Alexander Vandewalle
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
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...
Dr. Naomi Weiss
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...
Dr. Lindsey Mazurek
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...
Dr. David Parnell
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...
Dr. Eduardo García-Molina
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
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...