Vincent Azoulay is Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée. A specialist in Athenian political and cultural history, he is the author of Xenophon and the Graces of Power (2004; English trans. 2018), Pericles of Athens (2010, English trans. 2014) and The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens: A Tale of Two Statues (2014, English trans. 2017).
Mirko Canevaro is Reader in Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include The Documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus (2013) and Demostene, Contro Leptine: Introduzione, traduzione e commento storico (2016), as well as a co-authored commentary of Aristotle’s Politics 4.
Federica Carugati is the Associate Director of the Ostrom Workshop, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research focuses on the development of pre-modern institutions, and on the lessons that these may hold for rethinking institution building in today’s developing world.
Diane Harris Cline is Associate Professor of History and Classics at the George Washington University. A specialist in Greek history and material culture, she is the author of The Treasures of the Parthenon and Erechtheion (1995) and National Geographic’s The Greeks: An Illustrated History (2006).
John K. Davies was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool 1977–2003. His principal research interests and publications have concerned classical Greece, but increasingly also economic history (especially of the Hellenistic world), epigraphy, sanctuaries and cults, and the potential explanatory power of the social sciences.
Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in Hellenistic history, he is the author of Roman Imperialism (2009), Troy between Greece and Rome (2001) and The Hellenistic Stoa (1990).
Robert K. Fleck is Professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University. His fields of research include political economy, law and economics, and development economics. His recent publications focus on the causes and consequences of major political and economic transitions, including those in ancient Greece.
Sara Forsdyke is Professor of Classical Studies and History at the University of Michigan. She specialises in archaic and classical Greek history, political thought and historiography. She is the author of Exile, Ostracism and Democracy (2005) and Slaves Tell Tales (2012). In addition, she recently co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Thucydides (2017).
Henrik Gerding is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lund University. His research has been mainly on ancient architecture, but also treated various applications of network theory in archaeology.
Benjamin Gray is Lecturer in Ancient History at Birkbeck College, University of London. His research concentrates on the Greek city-states and their political thought, especially in the Hellenistic period. He is the author of Stasis and Stability: Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404–146 BC (2015).
F. Andrew Hanssen is Professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University. His areas of research include institutions, law and economics, political economy, and industrial organisation. He has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on the political and legal institutions of ancient Greece.
Paulin Ismard is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne. A specialist in the history of Greek civic societies of the classical and Hellenistic periods, he is the author of La cité des réseaux: Athènes et ses associations (2010), L’événement Socrate (2013) and Democracy’s Slaves: A Political History of Ancient Greece (2017).
James Kierstead is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Victoria University of Wellington. He has published a number of articles and reviews on ancient Greek democracy, and is currently working on a book for Edinburgh University Press entitled Associations and Democracy in Classical Athens.
Roman Klapaukh is a Research Software Developer at University College London. He is interested in the interaction between software and research, and how the two can be combined to ask new questions.
David Lewis is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham. He works on Greek social and economic history, and is co-editor of The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States (2015). His monograph Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c. 800–146 BC is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Peter Liddel is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester. He works on ancient Greek history, epigraphy and historiography. He is the author of Civic Obligation and Individual Liberty in Ancient Athens (2007) and a number of articles and edited volumes. He is currently co-editor of the Annual of the British School at Athens.
Polly Low is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester. She has particular interests in interstate politics, imperialism, and the epigraphic and commemorative habits of the Greek city-states. She is the author of Interstate Relations in Classical Greece (2007).
Carl Hampus Lyttkens is Professor of Economics and Docent of Economic History at Lund University. His main areas of research are health economics and the economics of ancient Greece. He is the author of Economic Analysis of Institutional Change in Ancient Greece: Politics, Taxation and Rational Behaviour (2013).
Emily Mackil is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon (2013) and numerous articles on economic, legal and political aspects of the ancient Greek world.
Ingvar B. Mæhle is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bergen, Norway. His main research interests are Greek and Roman social and political history, in a comparative and anthropological framework. He is the author of Mass and Elite in Republican Rome (2005, in Norwegian) and co-editor of Women and Religion in the Middle East and Mediterranean (2004).
Christian Mann is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Mannheim. A specialist in ancient democracies and athletics, he is the author of Die Demagogen und das Volk (2007) and Athlet und Polis (2001), and co-editor of Athletics in the Hellenistic World (2016) and ‘Demokratie’ im Hellenismus (2012).
Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University, works at the intersection of institutional economics, political theory and ancient Greek history. His most recent books are The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (2015) and Demopolis: Democracy before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (2017).
Claire Taylor is the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being: Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens (2017) and co-editor (with Kostas Vlassopoulos) of Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015) and (with J.A. Baird) Ancient Graffiti in Context (2011).
David A. Teegarden is Associate Professor of Classics at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. A specialist in ancient Greek democracy, he is the author of Death to Tyrants! Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle against Tyranny (2014).
Peter van Alfen is Chief Curator at the American Numismatic Society in New York City. He has published widely on problems of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern monetary, fiscal and trade systems spanning the late Bronze Age to the early Byzantine period.
Kim Van Liefferinge received her PhD in Greek Archaeology from Ghent University and then completed a postdoc at Stanford University. Her research focuses on mining technologies in the Greek Laurion area, and ancient economics more broadly.
Barry R. Weingast is Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, and Ward C. Krebs Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on the political foundation of markets. He has written extensively on development, federalism, the rule of law and democracy. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.