Dr. Hannah Čulík-Baird

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 articles, she has examined Cicero’s characterization of racially and socially marginalized figures in Rome. She is currently in a collaborative research partnership with Mathias Hanses (Penn State) to co-write a monograph on representations and discourses of ancient race across the Ciceronian corpus as a whole. Since 2020, Hannah has co-organized with Joseph Romero (University of Mary Washington) an annual online conference—Res Difficiles—addressing inequity in the field of Classics. The Res Difficiles conference series has for several years been a venue for discussing “difficulties” within the field of Classics, examining issues arising out of intersectional vectors of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, class, socio-economic status and beyond. They have now also launched Res Difficiles, The Journal—an imprint of Ancient History Bulletin, a Green Open Access Journal—a peer-reviewed publication which invites submissions from individuals, pairs, or groups, addressing “difficult things” within the discipline of Classics and related fields.