Editorial Advisory Board
Hans Beck is John MacNaughton Professor and Director of Classical Studies at McGill University in Montreal. He has published widely on the history of the Roman republic, including a two-volume edition of the early Roman historians (Die Frühen Römischen Historiker, co-authored with Uwe Walter, 2001/2004) and a monograph on the republican nobility, Karriere und Hierarchie (2005). He is also co-editor of Brill’s New Jacoby.
Jan N. Bremmer is the Chair of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His main interests are Greek and Roman religion, early Christianity and contemporary religion. He has widely published on antiquity, ranging from Homer to Constantine the Great, but also on the genealogies of key concepts in the history and sociology of religion. His latest book is Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East (2008.
Kostas Buraselis is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Athens. He is a corresponding member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, and author of Das hellenistische Makedonien und die Ägäis (1982), THEIA DOREA. Studies on the Policy of the Severans and the Constitutio Antoniniana (1989 in Greek, German edition 2007) and Kos between Hellenism and Rome (2000). He has edited numerous books, including The Athenian Democracy speaks with its inscriptions (2007).
Paul Cartledge is AG Leventis Professor of Greek Culture in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of a dozen books, including most recently Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice (2009), Thermopylae: The Battle that changed the World (2005) and Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (2005). He is the editor of the "Key Themes in Ancient History" and "Classical Inter/Faces" book series.
Emma Dench is Professor of the Classics and of History at Harvard University. Her research focuses mainly on issues of identity and empire in the Roman world, and on Roman Italy. She is the author of From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman and Modern Perceptions of Peoples from the Central Apennines (1995) and Romulus' Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian (2005).
Peter Funke is Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Institute of Ancient History, the Institute of Epigraphy and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriote Studies at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. He is the project manager of the Inscriptiones Graecae of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and Principal Investigator of the research cluster Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures at Münster University. He has published widely on the history of Classical Athens, including Homónoia und Arché ( 1980) and Athen in klassischer Zeit (3rd edition 2007) and on Greek federalism.
Ann-Cathrin Harders is lecturer in Ancient History at the Karl-Ruprechts-Universitaet of Heidelberg. Her main interests are the Roman family and the social history of the Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Age. She has published a monograph on Roman kinship, Suavissima Soror (2008). She has also published on Roman prosopography and the Roman family and is currently working on a project on Hellenistic kings and queens.
Olivier Hekster is Professor in Ancient History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. His research focuses on the role of ideology in the Roman world, especially in the Roman Empire. His recent publications include Rome and Its Empire, AD 193-284 (2008) and Ritual Dynamics and Religious Change in the Roman Empire (2009), edited with Christian Witschel and Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner. He is chairman of the international network 'Impact of Empire'.
Paul T. Keyser studied physics and classics at Duke and the University of Colorado. He is currently working at the IBM Watson Research Center, and his publications include work on gravitational physics, stylometry, and ancient science and technology. His most recent publication is the Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists (Routledge 2008).
Beate Pongratz-Leisten is Associate Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University. Her major interest lies with the development of cultural strategies and key metaphors to sustain political structures. She is the author of "Die kulttopographische und ideologische Programmatik der akitu-Prozession" in Babylonien und Assyrian im 1. Jt. v. Chr. (1994), and also Herrschaftswissen im Alten Orient: Formen der Kommunikation zwischen König und Gott im 2. und 1. Jt. v. Chr. (1999).
Elio Lo Cascio is Professor of Roman History at the University “La Sapienza” of Rome. His published work primarily focuses on four topics: the administrative history of the Principate and of the Late Empire; the institutional history of the Roman Republic; the economic and social history of Rome; and Roman population history and the impact of demographic change on the economy and society of Rome. His most recent publications include Il princeps e il suo impero (2000); Crescita e declino (2009); and the edited volumes Roma imperiale. Una metropoli antica (2000); Production and public powers in antiquity (2000, with D.W. Rathbone); Credito e moneta nel mondo romano (2003); Innovazione tecnica e progresso economico nel mondo romano (2006); The Impact of the Roman Army (200 BC-AD 476) (2007, with L. De Blois).
Saul M. Olyan is Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University. He is the author of Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel (1988), A Thousand Thousands Served Him: Exegesis and the Naming of Angels in Ancient Judaism (1993), Rites and Rank: Hierarchy in Biblical Representations of Cult (2000), Biblical Mourning: Ritual and Social Dimensions (2004), and Disability in the Hebrew Bible: Interpreting Mental and Physical Differences (2008).
Annette Yoshiko Reed is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on early Judaism and Christianity. Her publications include Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity (2005), The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages (ed. with A.H. Becker; 2003), and Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions (ed. with R.S. Boustan; 2004). Among her research interests are apocalyptic literature, demonology, cosmology, and the early history of Jewish/Christian relations.
Richard J A Talbert is W R Kenan Professor of History and Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Ancient mapping, worldview and travel dominate his current research. He edited the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World (2000). Forthcoming in 2010 are a major study Rome’s World: the Peutinger Map Reconsidered, and two edited volumes: Ancient Perspectives: Maps and their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome (Nebenzahl Lectures), and Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies.
Sofía Torallas Tovar is Tenured researcher at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain. Her research focuses mainly on Greek and Coptic Papyrology, Linguistic and cultural issues in Graeco-Roman Egypt. She is the curator of the papyrological collection at the Abbey of Montserrat, Barcelona. She is the co-author with Prof. K.A. Worp of To the Origins of Greek Stenography (2006).
Bryan Ward-Perkins is a Lecturer in History at Oxford University and a Fellow of Trinity College. His principal interests are the history and archaeology of the late Roman empire and of the immediately post-Roman period. He was a joint editor of The Cambridge Ancient History Vol. XIV (2000), and published The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization (2005). He is currently a co-director of 'The Last Statues of Antiquity' project, investigating how statues were used in Late Antiquity, and their slow demise throughout the empire.
