Notes on Contributors
Anthony Álvarez Melero
is Assistant Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla. His main fields of research are women’s history, Roman epigraphy, Roman Spain, Roman social history, and prosopography. He has recently published Matronae equestres. La parenté féminine des chevaliers romains originaires des provinces occidentales sous le Haut-Empire romain (Ier-IIIe siècles) (Brepols 2018).
Rebecca Benefiel
is Professor of Classics at Washington & Lee University, where she teaches Latin literature and Roman archaeology. She studied epigraphy at L’Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ and Harvard University, where she earned her Ph.D. She has published numerous articles, co-edited the volume Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World (Brill 2016), and is the Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project.
Riccardo Bertolazzi
is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto. He has published numerous articles on social and military matters related to Roman imperial history and epigraphy and is now working on a monograph on Septimius Severus and the cities of the Roman Empire.
Cristina Carusi
is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on the economy, law, and institutions of Greek city-states and on the study of epigraphic sources. Her most relevant publications include a book on the production, trade, and taxation of salt in the Greek world (Edipuglia 2008) and a co-edited volume on the Athenian grain-tax law of 374/3 (ETS 2010). She is currently working on a new book on public building and the Athenian democracy.
Angelos Chaniotis
is Professor of Ancient History and Classics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is an editor of Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum and responsible for the publication of the inscriptions of Aphrodisias since 1995.
Alison E. Cooley
is Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Warwick. She has published a commentary on the Res Gestae (Cambridge University Press 2009) and The Cambridge Manual of Latin Epigraphy (Cambridge University Press 2012) and edited A Companion to Roman Italy (Blackwell-Wiley 2016). From 2013 to 2017 she was Principal Investigator of the Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK.
Christopher Dawson
earned his PhD in History at York University, Toronto, in 2016. He studies the political cultures of the cities of Roman North Africa and their connection to social and cultural trends around the Mediterranean. Currently, he is working on a monograph concerning the performative nature of public life in the region, particularly the role of non-elite citizens.
M. Cristina de la Escosura
is Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Zaragoza. She is interested in Latin Epigraphy and Onomastics in the context of both the Republic and the Principate. She is also a member of several Digital Humanities projects.
Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons
is an Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Mississippi. Her current research investigates the aesthetics of ancient graffiti and the charcoal graffiti of Pompeii and Herculaneum. She has published on the application of digital technologies to photograph ancient graffiti. She serves as the Field Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project.
Sviatoslav Dmitriev
is Associate Professor of History at Ball State University. He has published on the social, political, and administrative history of Greece across a wide chronological span. His latest book is The Birth of the Athenian Community: From Solon to Cleisthenes (Routledge 2018).
Stephanie Ann Frampton
is a classicist, comparatist, and historian of media in antiquity. Her work focuses on the intersections of literary and material culture in the Graeco-Roman world and traditions of reading, writing, and scholarly practice in the classical tradition. She is the author of Empire of Letters: Writing in Roman Literature and Thought from Lucretius to Ovid (Oxford 2019) and Associate Professor of Literature at MIT.
Noah Kaye
is an Assistant Professor of History at Michigan State University. His specialization is Greek history, epigraphy, and archaeology, with a focus on the Hellenistic kingdoms of Anatolia and the Near East. He is currently completing a book, Overnight Empire: The Attalids of Pergamon and Anatolia.
Catherine M. Keesling
is Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, Washington DC. Her publications include The Votive Statues of the Athenian Acropolis (Cambridge 2003) and Early Greek Portraiture: Monuments and Histories (Cambridge 2017), as well as articles and book chapters on Greek sculpture, Greek epigraphy, and commemorative monuments. She is writing a book on sculptural collections in Roman Greece and Asia Minor.
Peter Liddel
is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester. He is interested in ancient Greek history, epigraphy, and historiography. In 2019 he will publish a 2-volume study of fourth-century Athenian decrees attested in literary texts with Cambridge University Press.
Polly Low
is Professor in the Department of Classics & Ancient History at Durham University. Her work focuses on the theory and practice of interstate politics in Classical Greece, but she has also published on warfare, commemoration, historiography, and epigraphy.
Franco Luciani
is a Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. His primary areas of expertise are Roman history and Latin epigraphy. He works on aspects of Roman social history, such as slavery and non-élite groups, as well as on the administration of Italy and Italian cities during the Empire. In 2012 he published all of the epigraphic material from Treviso (Italy) in his monograph Iscrizioni greche e latine dei Musei Civici di Treviso.
Francesca Rocca
(PhD, University of Turin 2012) has been the recipient of scholarships from various institutions, including AIEGL and the Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica. In 2016 she was a member of the project The Epigraphic Landscape of Athens under the directorship of Professor Culasso (Turin). Her work focuses on slavery and manumission in the ancient Greek world.
Patricia A. Rosenmeyer
is George L. Paddison Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She specializes in Archaic Greek and Hellenistic poetry, epistolary fiction, verse inscriptions, and reception studies. Her most recent book is The Language of Ruins: Greek and Latin Inscriptions on the Memnon Colossus (Oxford University Press 2018).
Celia Sánchez Natalías
has a doctorate from the University of Zaragoza. Her research has focused on the study of defixiones. In addition to editions of new and old epigraphic texts, she has published a series of articles concerning ancient magic. Her forthcoming book will be dedicated to the study of Latin, Estruscan, Oscan, Celtic, and bilingual curse tablets from the pars occidentalis of the Roman Empire.
Joe Sheppard
is a doctoral candidate in Classical Studies at Columbia University, where he is completing a dissertation entitled “Mass Spectacles in Roman Pompeii as a System of Communication.” His additional research interests include imperial villas in central Italy, Roman education, and the history of popular culture.
Dimitris Sourlas
is an archaeologist of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Athens. Over the past twenty years he has conducted excavations in the Roman Agora, the Library of Hadrian, and the wider area of Plaka in Athens. He has published extensively on the epigraphy, topography, architecture, and sculpture of Athens, Kythera, and other regions.
Randall Souza
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Seattle University. His research interests lie in human mobility and group dynamics in the ancient Mediterranean and on Sicily in particular. He is a Field Director with the Contrada Agnese Project at the site of Morgantina, and a co-author of annual excavation reports. He is currently collaborating on the final excavation publication and preparing a book manuscript on Sicilian mobility and citizenship in the fourth and third centuries BCE.
Holly M. Sypniewski
is an Associate Professor of Classics at Millsaps College and the Assistant Director of the Ancient Graffiti Project. She recently published “The Greek Graffiti of Herculaneum,” co-authored with Rebecca R. Benefiel, in American Journal of Archaeology. She is currently developing two projects on the field notebooks of the epigrapher Matteo Della Corte.
Athanassios Themos
is the Director of the Epigraphical Museum in Athens. He worked from 1994 to 2006 for the 5th Ephorate of Prehistoric Antiquities of Laconia and Arcadia before moving to Athens and the Epigraphical Museum. He has published numerous articles on Attic and Spartan epigraphy and archeology. His forthcoming book, based on his doctoral dissertation, is a comprehensive study of Greek erotic and obscene inscriptions.
Eleni Zavvou
is an archaeologist of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports. She worked from 1994 to 2006 for the 5th Ephorate of Prehistoric Antiquities of Laconia and Arcadia and has been a member of the scholarly staff of the Epigraphical Museum since 2006. She has published extensively on Attic inscriptions and on the epigraphy and archaeology of Sparta and Laconia.
Erika Zimmermann Damer
is Associate Professor of Classics and Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies at the University of Richmond. She is interested in Roman poetry of the Augustan period, gender and sexuality, and Roman graffiti. She is the author of In the Flesh: Embodied Identities in Roman Elegy (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), and a team leader in the Ancient Graffiti Project.