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BAFTA Nominated Writer and Narrative Designer Betty Robertson loves her own voice. She’s a multidisciplinary autodidact with a background in Animation. When she’s not writing (for work), she’s still writing one thing or she’s writing another. Betty is currently stationed in Montréal and working at L...

Joe Manning is the William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. He has two primary research focuses, the Economic and legal History of the Hellenistic world, and Egyptian history in the long run. His main concern has been the historical interpretation of th...

Afiya Augustine is an eternal student and lifelong dreamer with aspirations of finding her true calling. When the Trinidadian born isn't working as a Director in education, the Brooklyn-based content creator is crafting for her online accessories shop, Pretty Poet Ink, she is working on her podcast,...

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 ...