Guests

John Haberstroh is a Ph.D. Candidate in History (Ancient Mediterranean) at the University of California, Riverside. His dissertation examines the intersections between local and Panhellenic cultures, identities, and politics at the major extraurban sanctuaries of the northeast Peloponnese (Nemea, Is...

Brooke Holmes teaches at Princeton University. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, a D.E.A. from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She works on ancient Greek medicine and life science,...

Rachel Finnell is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kansas. She specializes in Comparative Politics and International Relations with a concentration on Authoritarian Regimes. Her dissertation explores whether authoritarian regimes follow their constitution...

Leyla Johnson is a Lebanese-American video game developer who specializes in historical strategy games. She earned a degree in journalism also picking up minors in French and Arab Lit along the way. In addition to speaking English and French, Leyla is a polyglot with the ability to speak Lebanese, M...

Cam Grey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Much of his scholarly work has concentrated on the experiences of small rural communities in the Roman and late Roman world. Most recently, he was a co-director of The Roman Peasant Project 2...

Jessica Bernstetter is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Missouri. She specializes in archaeology and is interested in the process of urbanization and infrastructure in the Roman world, specifically the water and sanitation systems of Pompeii and Herculaneum. H...

Jay Reed is a scholar of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and culture at Brown University, and has worked especially on Hellenistic and Augustan poetry. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1987, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford in 1991 and 1993. He previously taught Classics at the Ohio State Un...

Janet Varney is an Emmy-nominated actor, comedian, writer and producer. She is perhaps best known for her iconic voice role of Avatar Korra on Nickelodeon’s “The Legend of Korra” but she can also be seen portraying Becca on FX’s “You’re the Worst”, Evie IFC’s “Stan Against Evil”, or herself on her s...

Clifford Ando is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor. He holds a dual appointment as a professor in the Departments of Classics and History at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the histories of religion, law and government in the ancient world. He writes ...

Radcliffe Edmonds is the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek and Chair of the Department of Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. His research interests focus on Greek social and intellectual history, with a particular focus of mythology, magic, religion, and Platonic philosophy. He h...

Kathleen Coleman is the James Loeb Professor of the Classics at Harvard University. She is originally from Zimbabwe. Before coming to Harvard, she taught at the University of Cape Town and Trinity College Dublin. Her specialties include: Latin literature under the Flavian emperors and Trajan; Roman ...

Grey DeLisle Griffin is a voice actress, comedian, and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter. She is one of the most prolific voice actresses in American animation history, having starred in over 1500 animated series and video games. She is best-known for her iconic voice roles of “Vicky” in Nickelodeon’...