Notes on Contributors
Richard Alston
is Professor of Roman History in the Classics Department, Royal Holloway, University of London. His work ranges across economic, social and intellectual history of the Roman period and the reception of that history in nineteenth- and twentieth-century social thought. His most recent relevant work explores issues of political power through readings of Tacitus in conjunction with various modern political philosophers.
Lovisa Brännstedt
is a Swedish Research Council Fellow at Lund University. Her research interests lie in the political culture of the early Empire, especially in gender, law, and the development of the senatorial court.
Hannah Cornwell
is Associate Professor in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham. She has published on the Roman concept of peace (pax) as an expression of imperialism and also examines diplomatic culture in the Roman world.
Lisa Pilar Eberle
is Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the University of Tübingen. Her research investigates the problems of political economy in the Graeco-Roman past.
Rebecca Flemming
is Leventis Professor of Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on classical medicine, gender and sexuality, both separately and together, and has a forthcoming book on medicine and empire in the Roman world.
Emily A. Hemelrijk
is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on Roman women and gender. Recent books are Hidden Lives, Public Personae. Women and Civic Life in the Roman West (2015) and Women and Society in the Roman World. A Sourcebook of Inscriptions from the Roman West (2020).
Sanna Joska
is a Research Officer at the National Archives of Finland. She successfully defended her PhD thesis on representations of power and status through the imagery of imperial children in Antonine Rome at Tampere University in 2018 and has published on Roman imperial power and family history.
Alison Keith
is Professor of Classics and Women’s Studies and Director of the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. She has published widely on gender and genre in Latin literature and Roman society.
Ida Östenberg
is Professor of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the Department of Historical Studies at Gothenburg University, Sweden. She has published widely on the Roman triumph and has written about Roman defeats and Roman political and memory culture. She is presently working on Roman public grief, funerals, and commemorative practices.
Louise Revell
is Associate Professor in Roman Studies at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on Rome’s western provinces, looking at questions of imperialism, identity and incorporation. She is the author of Roman imperialism and local identities (2009) and Ways of Being Roman: discourses of identity in Rome’s western provinces (2015) and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain (2016). She is currently working on urban citizenship as a mode of integration into the Roman empire.
Michael J. Taylor
is an Assistant Professor at the University at Albany, SUNY. His work currently focuses on war, imperialism, and the state during the Middle Republic.
Lewis Webb
is a Swedish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Gothenburg and a Fulford Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College, the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in gender, law, religion, and space in Republican Rome, and in the material culture of Etruria and Thessaly.
Julia Wilker
is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include the history of the Near East in Hellenistic and Roman times, focusing on interactions between local elites and imperial powers and evolving concepts of identity and normativity.
Greg Woolf
is Ronald Mellor Professor of Ancient History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published on various aspects of Roman cultural history and archaeology and is currently completing a book on civilizational change in Rome.