Clifford Ando is Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He has recently published a book on religion in the Roman Empire, The Matter of the Gods (University of California Press, 2008), and is now working on a study of law and cultural change, to be published under the title The Ambitions of Government.
Olof Brandt is Secretary of the Istituto Pontificio di Archeologia Cristiana in Rome, and Assistant to the Chair of Early Christian Architecture at the same institute. He has excavated the early Christian baptistery of the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome, and is currently working on a new archaeological analysis of the Lateran baptistery.
Philip Burton is Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Biblical Languages in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Old Latin Gospels: A Study of Their Texts and Language (Oxford University Press, 2000), of Language in the Confessions of Augustine (Oxford University Press, 2007), and has translated
Augustine’s Confessions (Everyman,
2001) . He is currently working on an edition of the Old Latin traditions of the Gospel according to John.
Daniel F. Caner is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Classics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is the author of Wandering, Begging Monks: Spiritual Authority and the Promotion ofMonasticism in Late Antiquity (University of California Press,
2002) , and History and Hagiography from the Late Antique Sinai (Liverpool University Press, forthcoming). He is currently working on a book on monastic wealth and economy in the late antique east.
Malcolm Choat is Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. Most recently, he has published Beliefand Cult in Fourth Century Papyri (Brepols, 2006). He is currently working on an edition of the bilingual papyrus archive of Apa Johannes.
David Cook is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, specializing in Islam, at Rice University, Texas. He has published most recently Understanding Jihad (University of California Press, 2005) and Martyrdom in Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Kate Cooper is Senior Lecturer in Early Christianity at the University of Manchester and Director of its Centre for Late Antiquity. She is the author of The Virgin and the Bride (Harvard University Press, 1996), and joint editor (with Jeremy Gregory) of several Ecclesiastical History Society Meeting collections (Boydell Press, 2004, 2005,
2006). Her book The Fall of the Roman Household was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007, together with a collection edited with Julia Hillner, Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900 (from the same publisher). She is now working on the first volume (250-500) of The Oxford History of Medieval Europe, and developing a more general book on early Christian women, aimed at disaffected female accountants and stockbrokers.
Raffaella Cribiore is Professor of Classics at New York University. She is the author of Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Scholars Press, 1996), Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton University Press, 2001), The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (Princeton University Press, 2007), and, with Roger Bagnall, Women’s Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (University of Michigan Press, 2006). She is currently working on the Orations of Libanius.
Jan Willem Drijvers is Lecturer in Ancient History in the History Department at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
His latest book is Cyril of Jerusalem: Bishop and City (Brill, 2004), and he is coauthor of Philological and Historical Commentary on Ammianus Marcellinus, xxii-xxvi (Brill, 1995-2007). He coedited Ammianus after Julian: The Reign of Valentinian and Valens in Books 26-31 of the Res Gestae (Brill, 2007).
Jennifer Ebbeler is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several articles on classical and late antique episto-lography. Her first book, Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine’s Letters, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Judith Evans-Grubbs is Professor in the Classics Department at Washington University in St. Louis. Author of Law and Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine’s Marriage Legislation (Clarendon Press, 1995), she has most recently published Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce, and Widowhood (Routledge, 2002). Her current project is a book, Children without Fathers in Roman Imperial Law, to be published by Oxford University Press.
James A. Francis is Associate Professor of Classics in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky. He is author of Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995). He is currently working on a book on visuality and verbal and visual representation in classical and late antiquity, tentatively titled More than Meets the Eye: Image, Text, and Visuality in the Second to Fourth Centuries, CE.
Michael Gaddis is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Syracuse University. He is author of There is No Crime for Those who Have Christ: Religious Violence in the Christian Roman Empire (University of california Press, 2005) and (with Richard Price) Acts of the Council of Chalcedon (Liverpool University Press, 2005).
Andrew Gillett is Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and Lecturer in Late Antiquity in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Sydney. His books include Envoys and Political Communication in the Late Antique West, 411-533 (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and (as editor) On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages (Brepols, 2002). His current research projects concern early medieval epistolary communication and late antique ethnography.
Thomas Graumann is Senior Lecturer in Early Church History at the University of Cambridge. His most recent major publication is Die Kirche der Vdter (Mohr Siebeck, 2002), an analysis of the formation of patristic authority in theological discourse from the third to the fifth centuries. He is currently working on a new history of church councils in Late Antiquity.
Kim Haines-Eitzen is Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Cornell University. She is author of Guardians of Letters: Literacy, Power, and the Transmitters of Early Christian Literature (Oxford University Press, 2000) and is working on a monograph that treats the intersection of gender and text transmission in early Christianity (to be published by Oxford University Press), and on the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Christianity.
Guy Halsall is Professor in the Department of History at the University of York. His most recent book is Barbarian Migrations and the Roman West, 376-568 (Cambridge University Press,
2007), and he collaborated with Wendy Davies and Andrew Reynolds in editing People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300 (Brepols, 2007). He is currently compiling a volume of his collected essays, and developing new thoughts on Merovingian cemeteries and social history (see his Early Medieval Cemeteries, Cruithne Press, and Settlement and Social Organization, Cambridge University Press, both 1995).
Felicity Harley is Lecturer in Medieval Art History at the University of Melbourne and a Research Fellow at the Trinity College Theological School. She is currently completing a book on the emergence of Crucifixion iconography in Late Antiquity.
Caroline Humfress is Reader in History in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. She is the coauthor (with Peter Garnsey) of The Evolution of Late Antiquity (Orchard Academic, 2001; French tr. F. Regnot, ISditions La Decouverte, 2004), and she is author of Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity (Oxford University Press, 2007). She is currently working on a project exploring comparative ancient law and legal practice.
Mark Humphries is Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology at
Swansea University. He has published various books and articles on ancient religions and Late Antiquity, notably Communities of the Blessed: Social Environment and Religious Change in Northern Italy, 200-400 (Oxford University Press, 1999) and, most recently, Early Christianity (Routledge, 2006). He is currently working on usurpers and local politics in the late Roman world.
Naomi Koltun-Fromm is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion, Haverford College. She has published most recently on Tatian, and is currently working on a book focusing on the connections made in early Jewish and Christian exegesis between holiness and sexuality in religious community formation, to be published under the title The Hermeneutics of Holiness.
Blake Leyerle is the John Cardinal O’Hara Associate Professor of Early Christianity in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom’s Attack on Spiritual Marriage (University of Cahfornia Press, 2001), and is currently completing a book on early Christian pilgrimage.
Conrad Leyser is Fellow and Tutor in History at Worcester College, Oxford. Author of Authority and Asceticism from Augustine to Gregory the Great (oxford University Press, 2000), he is reinventing himself as a historian of the late Carolingian and ottonian episcopate, with articles on the Formosan Schism and Liudprand of Cremona either published or due to appear. He is coediting England and the Continent in the Tenth Century, to be published by Brepols; with Kate Cooper, he is coediting a volume, Making Early Medieval
Societies: Conflict and Belonging in the Latin West, 400-1200, to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Richard Lim is Professor of History at Smith College, responsible for teaching the history of the ancient Mediterranean, of Greece and Rome, and of Late Antiquity. Author of Public Disputation, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 1995), and joint editor (with Carole Straw) of The Past before Us: The Challenge of Historiographies of Late Antiquity (Brepols/Bibliotheque de l’Antiquite Tardive, 2004), he is currently working on a book about the reception of public spectacles and civic transformation in late Roman cities, as well as a volume on the social history of late antiquity and another on the historical interactions in premodern Eurasia.
Rita Lizzi Testa is Professor of Roman History at the Universita degli Studi, Perugia. Long noted for her work on both the eastern (Il potere episcopale nell’Oriente romano: Rappresentazione ideologica e realta politica nel IV-V secolo d. C., Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 1987) and the western episcopate (Vescovi e strutture ecclesiastiche nella citta tardoantica: L’lta-lia Annonaria nel IV-V secolo d. C., Edizioni New Press, 1989), she has published most recently Senatori, popolo, papi: il governo di Roma al tempo dei Valentini-ani (Editrice Edipuglia, 2004), and has edited two important volumes: (with Jean-Michel Carrie) Humana sapit: Etudes d’Antiquit'e tardive offertes a Lellia Cracco Ruggini (Brepols, 2002), and La trasformazioni delle elites in et'a tardoantica (L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2006).
S. T. Loseby is Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. His most recent publications deal with urbanism in Gaul and exchange in the Mediterranean during Late Antiquity. He edited, with Neil Christie, Towns in Transition: Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Scolar Press, 1996), and is working on a book entitled Marseille in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, to be published by Oxford University Press.
Neil McLynn is University Lecturer in Later Roman History in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He has published widely in the field of Late Antiquity, including Ambrose of Milan: Church and Court in a Christian Capital (University of California Press, 1994). He is currently working on a study ofthe career of Gregory of Nazianzus.
Andrew Marsham is Lecturer in Islamic History in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has published on rebellion and safe conduct in early Islam. His book, Rituals of Islamic Monarch: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire, will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009.
Wendy Mayer is Research Associate in the Centre for Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University. She has published most recently The Homilies of St John Chrysostom - Provenance: Reshaping the Foundations (Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, 2005), and (with Bronwen Neil) St John Chrysostom: The Cult of the Saints (St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2006). She is currently working on a critical analysis of the sources concerning John Chrysostom’s life under the title John Chrysostom: The Deconstruction of a Saint, and with
Pauline Allen on a compendium and analysis of the sources concerning the churches of Antioch under the title The Churches of Syrian Antioch (300-638 CE).
Stratis Papaioannou is William A. Dyer Jr. Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Dumbarton Oaks Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies in the Classics Department at Brown University. He has published widely on Byzantine Literature. Currently, he is completing a book-length study on autobiography and literary aesthetics in premodern Greek writing with a focus on Michael Psellos (provisional title: Michael Psellos’ Autography: A Study of Mimesis in Premodern Greek Literature). He is also working on a critical edition of Psellos’ letters.
Karla Pollmann is Professor of Classics at the University of St. Andrews. She has published most recently a commentary, with introduction and text, on Statius, Thebaid 12 (Ferdinand Schciningh, 2004), and has edited (with Mark Vessey) Augustine and the Disciplines (Oxford University Press, 2005). She is currently working on Augustine’s De Genesi ad litteram, and is directing a major international and interdisciplinary project on the reception of Augustine through the ages. Her Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity (edited jointly with Wille-mien Otten) was published by Brill in 2007.
Stefan Rebenich is Professor of Ancient History and the Classical Tradition in the Department of History at the Universitat Bern. He has published most recently Jerome (Routledge, 2002), following his major study Hieronymus und sein Kreis (Steiner, 1992), and Theodor Mommsen: eine Biographie (first published
Beck, 2002; 2nd edn., 2007). He is currently working on the correspondence between Theodor Mommsen and Friedrich Althoff, to be published by the Bavarian Academy.
12ric Rebillard is Professor of Classics and History at Cornell University. Author of In hora mortis: evolution de la pastorale chretienne de la mort aux IVe et Ve si'cles dans l’Occident latin (12cole Francaise de Rome, 1994), he has published most recently Religion et sepulture: l’eglise, les vivants et les morts dans l’antiquite tardive (Ille-Ve siecles) (Editions de l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 2003), of which an English translation will be published by Cornell University Press in 2008; and he has edited (with Michel Nancy) Hell'enisme et christianisme: questions de religion, de philosophie et d’his-toire dans l’antiquit'e tardive (Presses Uni-versitaires du Septentrion, 2004). He is currently working on the interactions between Christians and non-Christians in Late Antiquity.
Philip Rousseau is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Early Christian Studies at The Catholic University of America. He has published most recently The Early Christian Centuries (Longman, 2002), and is working on a book tentatively entitled The Social Identity of the Ascetic Master in Late Roman Christianity.
Christine Shepardson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Her first book is entitled Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem’s Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria (Catholic University of America Press,
2008). Two recent articles study how religious authority relies on the manipulation of physical places in fourth-
Century Antioch (the theme of her next major study): ‘‘Controlling Contested Places: John Chrysostom’s Adversus
Iudaeos Homilies and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy,’’ Journal of Early Christian Studies 15 (2007): 483-516, and ‘‘Burying Babylas: Meletius and the Christianization of Antioch,’’ Stu-dia Patristica 37, XV International Conference on Patristic Studies (forthcoming).
Claire Sotinel is Professor of Roman History in the Department of History at the Universite Paris XII Val de Marne. Author of Rhetorique de la faute et pastorale de la reconciliation dans la Lettre apologetique contre Jean de Ravenne (llcole Francaise de Rome, 1994), she has published most recently Identit'e civi-que et christianisme: Aquil'ee du Ille au VIe siecle (llcole Francaise de Rome, 2005). She is currently working on the role of information in Late Antiquity.
Dennis E. Trout is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is author of Paulinus of Nola: Life, Letters, and Poems (University of California Press, 1999), and his recent publications include articles on Pope Damasus and Lombard Rome. He is currently preparing an annotated translation of the epigraphic poetry of Pope Damasus.
John Vanderspoel is Professor of Late Antiquity in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Calgary. He is author of Themistius and the Imperial Court: Oratory, Civic Duty, and Paideia from Constantius to Theodosius (University of Michigan Press, 1995). More recently, he coedited The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization (Cambridge University Press, 2006). He is currently preparing a book on the emperor
Julian and developing a project on the nature of the late antique west.
Mark Vessey is Principal of Green College and Professor of English at the University of British Columbia. He is author of Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and Their Texts (Ashgate, 2005), and editor (with Karla Pollmann) of Augustine and the Disciplines (Oxford University Press, 2005). Current projects include a Blackwell Companion to Augustine and the translation and annotation of Erasmus’ Annotations on
Luke for the Collected Works of Erasmus (University of Toronto Press).
David Woods is College Lecturer in the Department of Classics at University College Cork. He has published numerous articles relating to the history of the late antique and early medieval periods, from the work of Ammianus Marcellinus to that of Adomnan of Iona. He is currently working on the relationship between, and reliability of, the surviving sources for the Arab-Byzantine wars of the seventh century.
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