Gillian Clark is Professor Emerita of Ancient History at the University of Bristol. Her Very Short Introduction to Late Antiquity (OUP) is expected in 2011. Her main research project is a collaborative print and electronic commentary on the augustine City of God. she coedits, with andrew louth, the monograph series Oxford Early Christian Studies (OUP), and, with Mary Whitby and Mark humphries, Translated Texts for Historians 300-800 (Liverpool UP).
Scott de Brestian teaches at the College of Wooster.
Elizabeth DePalma Digeser is associate professor of history at the university of California at santa Barbara. her area of research interest is the conversation between what used to be called “paganism” and Christianity in the third - and fourth-century Roman Empire. She has finished a book on the role of late Platonists in Diocletian’s persecution, and is now working on the conversion of goddess temples into churches dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Jan Willem Drijvers is Reader in ancient history at the university of Groningen. He works amongst other things on late Roman historiography, late ancient Christianity and the relations between the Roman and sassanid Empires. he is coauthor of the Philological and Historical Commentaries on Ammianus Marcellinus. see further: Http://www. rug. nl/staff/j. w.drijvers.
Linda ellis is a Full professor in the museum studies program at san Francisco State University. Her five-year hydroarchaeology surveying program in the area of Tropaeum Traiani has just been completed and she currently is working on a publication of aqueduct locations and chemical testing of underground water reservoirs used in late antiquity.
Steven Fanning is an associate professor in the Department of history at the university of Illinois at Chicago. he recently co-authored The Annals of Flodoard of Reims (Broadview Press: Peteilborough, ON, Canada, 2004).
Salim faraji is assistant professor of Africana studies at California state university, dominguez hills, specializing in the Napatan, meroitic and Christian periods of nubian history. he is a contributor to the forthcoming oxford dictionary of african Biography.
Luis A. Garcia Moreno is currently Ordinary Member of the Royal Academy of History (Madrid) and Professor of Ancient History at the University of Alcala (Spain). He has published more than 250 books and academic papers, and he has delivered conferences in universities and academic institutions of Spain, France, UK, Italy, Germany, usA, argentina, Chile, Brazil and Taiwan. His studies focus on the Late antiquity and the German peoples, especially the Goths and in spain. He has also written about hellenistic historiography and geography, and the history of spain before and during the Roman conquest.
Cam Grey is assistant professor in the Department of Classical studies at the university of pennsylvania. he is the author of Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside (Cambridge, 2011), as well as studies relating to late Roman socio-economic history including agriculture and field management practices, slavery, peasant marriage strategies, and demonic possession.
Michael E. Jones is professor of history and Christian A. Johnson Chair of Interdisciplinary studies at Bates College. his research interests include the history and archaeology of Roman Britain, anglo-saxon England, and early medieval northwestern Europe; and environmental history; and he currently is working on The Shetland Islands Climate and Settlement Project.
Kimberly Kagan is president of the Institute for the study of War in Washington
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Michel Kazanski is director of Research at the Centre de recherches d’histoire et de Civilisation de Byzance in paris. he is co-author of Des les goths aux huns: le nord de la mer Noire au Bas-Empire et a I’epoque des grandes migrations (Oxford, 2006) and of many other studies.
Noel Lenski is associate professor of Classics at the university of Colorado at Boulder. he is author of Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century AD (Berkeley, 2002) and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge, 2006). He is currently writing a monograph on slavery in late antiquity.
Ralph W. Mathisen is professor of history, Classics, and Medieval studies at the university of Illinois at urbana-Champaign. his research interests include ecclesiastical history, barbarian studies, late Latin literature, prosopography, and the society, culture, and religion of late antiquity. he is editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity and oxford studies in Late antiquity. a new ancient history textbook, Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations from Prehistory to 640 CE, is forthcoming from oxford university press in 2011, and his current research project has the working title “How the Barbarians Saved Civilization.”
Scott McDonough is an Assistant Professor at The William Paterson University of New Jersey, studying the social, institutional and religious history of late ancient West asia, especially pre-lslamic Iran and the south Caucasus. He currently is working on a monograph titled “‘We Pray for Our Glorious King’:Power, Patronage and piety in sasanian iran” and a survey of the history of sasanian iran.
Jason Moralee is associate professor of history at illinois Wesleyan university. he is currently researching the rise and fall of holy mountains in Late antiquity and the Middle ages with particular focus on Rome’s Capitoline hill.
Ekaterina Nechaeva is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre d’ Etudes Byzantines, Neo-Helleniques et Sud-Europeennes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. She graduated from the Historical Faculty of the Saint-Petersburg State University, and for more than ten years has worked in the State Hermitage Museum. She received her PhD from the University of Siena, Italy. Her main areas of research are: Late antiquity, Diplomacy and international relations; Systems of representation and delegation of power. Her monograph, Systems of East Roman Diplomacy in Late Antiquity. Embassies. Negotiations, Gifts is forthcoming in 2011 from Franz Steiner Verlag (series: Geographica Historica).
Barbara Oehlschlaeger-Garvey (Ph. D, 2000, University of Illinois) is Curator of History at the Early american Museum, Champaign County Forest Preserve District. Her dissertation reconstructed the burials at La Butte des Gargans, Houdan. Recent publications include articles related to museum topics, particularly collections planning and care.
Patrick Perin is Director of the Musee d’archeologie nationale et Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in Paris. He is the co-editor of Du chateau royal au Musee d’archeologie nationale: Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Paris, 2007) and a multitude of other studies.
Amelia Robertson Brown received her PhD in ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 and is Lecturer in Greek History and Language at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, australia. Her research focuses on Greece in Late antiquity, religious change and Mediterranean maritime history, particularly around Corinth, Thessaloniki and Malta.
Andreas Schwarcz is Professor fur mittelalterliche Geschichte und Historische Hilfswissenschaften at the University of Vienna and a member of the Instituts fur Osterreichische Geschichtsforschung. His current focus is on problems of Roman frontier organisation and on two large international projects on the preservation of the Roman frontier as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Yuval Shahar is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, Israel. he is a member of Kibbutz Gvat, and is currently celebrating Kibbutz Movement’s one hundredth anniversary. he is interested in Jewish history and Historical Geography of Eretz Israel during Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods. he published “Josephus Geographicus - The Classical Context of Geography in Josephus,” Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 98, (Mohr Siebeck, Tubingen, 2004).
Danuta Shanzer is Ordentliche Universitatsprofessorin fur Lateinische Philologie der Spatantike und des Mittelalters, Universitat Wien and Professor Emerita of Classics and Medieval Studies, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. she is a specialist on the Latin literature and on the social and religious history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. She is Latin editor for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, editor of Illinois Classical Studies, and North American editor for Early Medieval Europe, while also serving on the editorial boards of the Journal of Late Antiquity and Wiener Studien. She recently published “The Tale of Frodebert’s Tail,” in Colloquial and Literary Latin, edited by Eleanor Dickey and Anna Chahoud (Cambridge 2010) pp. 376-405.
Cristiana Sogno is Assistant Professor of Classics, Fordham University. her research interests focus on late Latin literature and Roman history. She is currently working on a monograph on curiositas (Curiositas Unveiled: The Development of A Peculiar Notion in Latin Literature and Roman Law) and on the commentary and Italian translation of the Orationes of Q. Aurelius Symmachus. She co-edited “From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians” with Scott McGill and Edward Watts, which came out with Cambridge University Press in May 2010 and is currently being reprinted.
Kevin Uhalde is Associate Professor of history at Ohio University. he has written on other aspects of Christian oath swearing in his book, Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine (2007). He is currently working on notions of repentance in late antiquity and the early middle ages.
Edward Watts is Associate Professor in the Department of history at Indiana University. he is the author of City and School in Late Antique Athens and Alexandria (Berkeley, 2006) and Riot in Alexandria (Berkeley, 2010). His current book project is entitled The Last Pagan Generation.
Bailey Young is Professor of history at Eastern Illinois University. his research interests range from Merovingian archaeology to castles and landscape, and he is currently co-director of the Walhain castle excavations in Brabant, Belgium. he recently published “The Imagery of Personal Objects: Hints of ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Christianity Merovingian Gaul?,” in The Power of Religion, edited by Andrew Cain and Noel Lenski (Ashgate, 2009).
Hartmut Ziche is a senior member of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and an Assistant Lecturer in ancient history at the University of the Antilles and Guyane. He works with models and ideal-types applied to the socio-economic history of the later Roman Empire, and is interested in contemporary perceptions and identities expressed in late Roman authors. He is co-author of Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies. Archaeology, Comparative History, Models and Institutions (Bari, 2007).
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