Macrina the Younger was an early Christian consecrated virgin. Macrina was elder sister of Basil the Great,Gregory of Nyssa,Naucratius and Peter of Sebaste. Gregory of Nyssa wrote a work entitled Life of Macrina in which he describes her sanctity and asceticism throughout her life. Macrina lived a chaste and humble life,devoting her time to prayer and the spiritual education of her younger brother Peter.
Mabel Louise Lang was an American archaeologist and scholar of Classical Greek and Mycenaean culture.
Paula Fredriksen is an American historian and scholar of early Christianity. She held the position of William Goodwin Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University from 1990 to 2010. Now emerita,she has been distinguished visiting professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,since 2009.
Helen King is a British classical scholar and advocate for the medical humanities. She is Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at the Open University. She was previously Professor of the History of Classical Medicine and Head of the Department of Classics at the University of Reading.
Candida R. Moss is an English public intellectual,journalist,New Testament scholar and historian of Christianity,and as of 2017,the Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. A graduate of Oxford and Yale universities,Moss specialises in the study of the New Testament,with a focus on the subject of martyrdom in early Christianity,as well as other topics from the New Testament and early Church History. She is the winner of a number of awards for her research and writing and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mary Hamilton Swindler was an American archaeologist,classical art scholar,author,and professor of classical archaeology,most notably at Bryn Mawr College,the University of Pennsylvania,and the University of Michigan. Swindler also founded the Ella Riegel Memorial Museum at Bryn Mawr College. She participated in various archaeological excavations in Greece,Egypt,and Turkey. The recipient of several awards and honors for her research,Swindler's seminal work was Ancient Painting,from the Earliest Times to the Period of Christian Art (1929).
David Stone Potter is the Francis W. Kelsey Collegiate Professor of Greek and Roman History and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor,Professor of Greek and Latin in Ancient History at The University of Michigan. Potter is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford universities and specializes in Greek and Roman Asia Minor,Greek,and Latin historiography and epigraphy,Roman public entertainment,and the study of ancient warfare.
Susanna K. Elm is a German historian and classicist. She is the Sidney H. Ehrman Professor of European History at the Department of History at the University of California,Berkeley. Her research interests include the history of the later Roman Empire,late Antiquity and early Christianity. She is Associate Editor of the journals Church History and Studies in Late Antiquity,and she is a member of the editorial board for Classical Antiquity.
Kate Cooper FRHistS is a professor of history and former head of the History Department at Royal Holloway,University of London,a role to which she was appointed in September 2017 and she stood down in 2019. She was previously professor of ancient history and head of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester,where she taught from 1995.
Ilaria L. E. Ramelli is an Italian-born historian,academic author,and university professor who specializes in ancient,late antique,and early mediaeval philosophy and theology.
Sarah Emily Bond is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on late Roman history,epigraphy,law,topography,GIS,and digital humanities.
Jennifer Baird,is a British archaeologist and academic. She is Professor in Archaeology at Birkbeck,University of London. Her research focuses on the archaeology of Rome's eastern provinces,particularly the site of Dura-Europos.
Michele Renee Salzman is a distinguished professor of history at the University of California,Riverside. She is an expert on the religious and social history of late antiquity.
Claire Sotinel is a Professor of Ancient History at l'Universitéde Paris-Est Créteil. She is an expert on Italy in late antiquity,religion,society,and prosopography.
Lea Margaret Stirling is a Canadian classical scholar and professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Manitoba. Her research focuses on Roman archaeology and Roman art with particular emphases on Roman sculpture,Late Antique art,and cemetery archaeology,and Roman North Africa.
Ann Marie Yasin is an Associate Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Southern California specializing in the architecture and material culture of the Roman and late antique world. She studies materiality,built-environments,landscapes,and urbanism as they pertain to the ancient and late ancient religious worlds.
Caroline Theresa Schroeder is professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is an expert on early Christianity.
Maijastina Kahlos is a Docent of Latin and Roman literature at the University of Helsinki and a Life Member of Clare Hall,University of Cambridge. She specialises in migration and mobility in the late antique Mediterranean,everyday life in ancient Rome,and ancient religions.
Rita Lizzi Testa,also known as Rita Lizzi,is an Italian historian of late antiquity,specialising in Christianity and paganism in the fourth to sixth centuries CE. She is a Professor of Roman history at the University of Perugia.
Ralph Whitney Mathisen is an American ancient historian,specializing in the history of Late antiquity. Currently he is the Professor of History,Classics,and Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. From 1996 to 2004 he was the Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities at the University of South Carolina. He also has served the founding editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity and one of the editors of Late Antiquity Newsletter,Medieval Prosopography and De Imperatoribus Romanis.
