Notes on Contributors
Jan N. Bremmer
is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. He is the author of The World of Greek Religion and Mythology (2019) and Greek Religion, second edition (2021).
Kathryn Caliva, Ph.D.
is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Bonaventure University. Her research focuses on the intersection of Greek poetry and ancient religions with additional interest in speech act theory and constructions of narrative authority.
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
is the Paul Shorey Professor of Greek in the Department of Greek, Latin, & Classical Studies at Bryn Mawr College. His research focuses on Greek religion and mythology, especially ideas of magic, Orphica, underworld, and afterlife.
Laura Feldt
is an Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, who researches ancient Mesopotamian, Jewish, and Christian religious traditions. She is the author of i.a. Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness (Cambridge 2025) and PI of the ERC project Radical Habits of the Heart.
David Frankfurter
is Professor of Religion and Aurelio Chair in the Appreciation of Scripture at Boston University. He is the author of Christianizing Egypt (Princeton 2018) and the editor of Guide to the Study of Ancient Magic (Leiden 2019).
Fritz Graf
is Distinguished University Professor of Classics Emeritus of the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University. He is working on Greek and Roman religion, with some emphasis on epigraphy and on magic.
Adria R. Haluszka
is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Studies at Eckerd College. Her research focuses on magic, monsters, and mythical “Others.”
Tom Hawkins
is a member of the Department of Classics at Ohio State University, where he has enjoyed the privilege of working with Sarah Iles Johnston for many years. He is the author of Iambic Poetics in the Roman Empire and Hacking Classical Forms in Haitian Literature.
Julia Nelson Hawkins
is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University. Her areas of expertise of ancient medicine, Latin poetry, and the reception of Hellenistic culture at Rome.
Warren Huard
is an instructor at the University of Winnipeg. His research focuses on Greek mythological characters and their philosophical legacy. His publications include “Herakles and the Order of Zeus in Hesiod’s Theogony” (2020).
Colleen Elizabeth Kron, Ph.D.
is a postdoctoral researcher and junior fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, as well as a member of the KollegForschungsgruppe (KFG): “Religion and Urbanity: Reciprocal Formations” (FOR 2779). She has published on Greek and Roman epigraphy, religion, myth, and belief.
Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D.
is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the interdisciplinary Program in the Study of Religion at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She has published on religion, folklore, foodways, festival and witchcraft in Europe and North America, and is a leading authority on the modern Pagan movement.
Laurie O’Higgins
teaches in the Classical and Medieval Studies Program at Bates College in Maine. She has known Sarah since graduate school. Laurie has published Women and Humor in Classical Greece, and The Irish Classical Self.
Carman Romano
has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bryn Mawr College since 2021. Her work explores how ancient poets led their audiences to conceptualize and interact with the supernatural entities that populate their performances.
R. Caroline Stampliaka
completed her BA with Honours in Sociocultural Anthropology and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Environmental Anthropology, both at the University of British Columbia. Her research explores traditional ecological knowledge, multispecies ethnography, and the expressive culture of the Mediterranean.
Eva Stehle
is professor emerita at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece and a number of articles about Greek poetry. She is working on a book about ancient Greek women’s religious practices.
James C. Wolfe, Ph.D. (2020)
is a Teacher of Latin and Assistant Varsity Golf Coach at Severn School. His publications explore issues of genre in Syriac historiography and Roman law in Syriac documentary parchments (Journal of Near Eastern Studies 82.2).