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Board of Editors

Jewish History

Gideon Bohak is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Jewish Culture and the Program in Religious Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has worked on Jewish history and literature in the Second Temple and the Rabbinic periods, on Jewish magic, and on ethnic stereotypes in Greek and Latin literature. His books are Joseph and Aseneth and the Jewish Temple in Heliopolis (1996) and Ancient Jewish Magic: A History (2007).

Roman Military History

Brian Campbell is Professor of Roman History at the Queen's University of Belfast. His interests lie in the history of the Roman Empire, especially the role of the army in politics, land survey, land distribution and the writings of the Agrimensores, and rivers in the life and thought of the Roman world. His most recent books are: The Writings of the Roman Land Surveyors (2000), War and Society in Imperial Rome 31 BC-AD 284 (2002), and Greek and Roman Military Writers (2004).

Historiography

Craige B. Champion received his graduate training in Classics and Ancient History at Princeton University. He is Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and former Chair of the History Department at Syracuse University. He has published widely on ancient Greek and Roman history and historiography. He is the author of Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories (2004) and editor of Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources (2004). Professor Champion is also one of the General Editors of the Encyclopedia.

Hellenistic World

Angelos Chaniotis is Senior Research Fellow of Classics at All Souls College, Oxford. He has worked on Greek historiography, the history of Crete, Hellenistic history and culture, and the history of Greek religion. He is senior editor of the Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum. His most recent book is War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History (2005).

Christianity

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An expert on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity, he has written or edited twenty books, including the two-volume edition of the Apostolic Fathers for the Loeb Classical Library (2003), and the New York Times Bestseller, Misquoting Jesus (2005).

Classical Greece

Michele Faraguna is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Trieste, Italy. He has worked on Greek political, administrative, economic and legal history from the Archaic Age to early Hellenism. He is the author of Atene nell'età di Alessandro. Problemi politici, economici, finanziari (1992) and has recently edited Dynasthai didaskein. Studi in onore di Filippo Càssola (2006) and Nomos despotes: Law and Legal Procedures in Ancient Greek Society (2007).

Roman Intellectual and Cultural History

Stephen Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford. He is the author of books on Vergil, Horace and Apuleius and editor of several volumes including A Companion to Latin Literature (Blackwell, 2005) and the Cambridge Companion to Horace (2007).

Social History

Sabine R. Huebner is an Adj. Assistant Professor of Ancient History at Columbia University and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She has published on the social and religious history of the Roman and later Roman East, on brother-sister marriage in Roman Egypt, old age in Classical Greece, Greek epigraphy, and papyrology. Her work include a monograph, Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken Kleinasiens (2005), a co-edited volume, Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity (2008), and a forthcoming study on Intergenerational Equity and Family Strategies in the Hellenistic and Roman East (2009). Professor Huebner is also one of the General Editors of the Encyclopedia.

Pharaonic Egypt

Salima Ikram is Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo. She currently co-directs the North Kharga Oasis Survey and has worked on excavations throughout Egypt as well as in Turkey and the Sudan. Her primary interests are death, daily life, archaeozoology, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage. Her most recent book is The Tomb in Ancient Egypt (2008), co-authored with Aidan Dodson, and she is working on another volume, The North Kharga Oasis Survey, with Corinna Rossi, that is due out in 2009.

Byzantium

Elizabeth M. Jeffreys is Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature Emerita in the University of Oxford, and also Fellow Emerita of Exeter College, Oxford. She works on topics in Byzantine literature, including chronicles from the sixth century, and romances and court poetry from the Komnenian and Palaeologan periods. Her recent books include Digenis Akritis
(1998) and The Age of the Dromon (2006).

Science

Daryn Lehoux is Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, University of Manchester. He is the author of Astronomy, Weather and Calendars in the Ancient World (Cambridge, 2007) and has published widely on ancient science. He has focused especially on the epistemology of observation, classification, and concepts of law in nature.

Bronze and Iron Age

Irene S Lemos is a statutory Reader in Classical Archaeology and a Fellow of Merton College Oxford. Her main interests are the archaeology and history of early Greece from the fall of the Mycenaean palaces to the end of the archaic period. She has published The Protogeometric Aegean (2002) and edited with S. Deger-Jalkotzy, Ancient Greece from the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer (2006). She has also published finds from Lefkandi in Euboea where she also is the director of the excavations.

Law

Elizabeth A. Meyer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Her interests include the social and cultural history of ancient Greece and Rome, epigraphy, Roman Law, and ancient legal culture. She is the author of Legitimacy and Law: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice (2004) and many articles on Greek and Roman history.

Roman Empire

Stephen Mitchell is Leverhulme Professor of Hellenistic Culture at the University of Exeter, UK. His main area of scholarly interest is the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East from the Hellenistic period up to Late Antiquity, with a particular emphasis on the history of Asia Minor and the study of inscriptions from the region. He is currently president of the Association Internationale d' Epigraphie Grecque et Latine. His most recent book is a History of the Later Roman Empire AD 285-64 (2007).

Late Antiquity

Arietta Papaconstantinou is currently Marie Curie Fellow at the Oriental Institute in Oxford. Her interests cover the history of the Near East during the later Roman empire and the transition to the Islamic empire. She is the author of Le culte des saints en Égypte des Byzantins aux Abbassides (CNRS, 2001) and of various articles on aspects of late antique and early Islamic social history and material culture, and is now engaged in a project on multilingualism in Egypt and the Levant.

Places-East

Gary Reger is Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His work has focused on the economy of the Hellenistic world and Greek epigraphy. He is the author of Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos (1994) and co-editor of Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (2007). His current projects include a study of Mylasa in Karia and an examination of the applicability of regional and network models to the Hellenistic economy.

Religion

James B. Rives is Kenan Eminent Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage (1995) and Religion in the Roman Empire (2006) as well as numerous articles on aspects of religion in the Roman world; he has also published a translation, with introduction and commentary, of Tacitus’ Germania (1999).

Greco-Roman Egypt

Paul Schubert is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Geneva. He is mainly a papyrologist, working both on documents and literary texts, but he has also published articles on Greek literature, from Homer to the novel. His latest book is Philadelphie: Un village égyptien entre le IIe et le IIIe s. ap. J.-C.

Roman Republic

Christopher Smith is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. He has worked on early Rome, Roman historiography, and the Roman Republic. His most recent book was The Roman Clan: The Gens from Ancient Ideology to Modern Anthropology (2005).

Ancient Near East

Eva von Dassow is associate professor of ancient Near Eastern studies at the University of Minnesota. Her principal areas of research are social history, historical method, and the relation of writing to language. She is the author of State and Society of the Late Bronze Age: Alalah under the Mittani Empire (2008), and co-author (with Ira Spar) of Cuneiform Texts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III: Private Archive Texts from the First Millennium BC (2000).

Daniel Snell is the editor of Blackwell's A Companion to the Ancient Near East (2005) and a contributor to Current Issues in the Study of the Ancient Near East (2007). He teaches social, economic, and religious history at the University of Oklahoma (Norman).

Places-West

Lea Stirling is Professor of Classics at the University of Manitoba and holds the Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology. She co-directs excavation at the Roman city of Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia). She also researches issues concerning Roman and Late Antique sculpture. Her most recent books are The Learned Collector: Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul (2005) and the co-edited volume Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa (2007).

Economy

David B. Hollander is Associate Professor of History at Iowa State University. His main interests are the late Roman Republic, the ancient economy and agricultural history. He is the author of Money in the Late Roman Republic (2007) as well as articles on monetization and the Roman mint. He also serves on the steering committee of the Society of Biblical Literature program unit on "Early Christianity and the Ancient Economy".