Winthrop Lindsay Adams (PhD, University of Virginia) is Professor of History at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where he has taught since 1974. An award-winning teacher, he has authored a biography of Alexander the Great, coauthored a sports sourcebook on the ancient and modern Olympics, and published some three dozen articles and chapters in professional publications on topics ranging from military and diplomatic history to ethnicity, imperialism, and Macedonian sports history. He served two terms as president of the Association of Ancient Historians, the largest scholarly association representing the field in North America.
Gregory S. Aldrete is Professor of History and Humanistic Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of Floods of the Tiber in Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins, 2007), Gestures and Acclamations in Ancient Rome (Johns Hopkins, 1999), and Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia (University of Oklahoma, 2009) and is the editor of the Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life: The Ancient World (2004). For more information, visit his web site: http://www.uwgb.edu/aldreteg/.
Carla M. Antonaccio is Professor of Archaeology and chair of the Department of Classical Studies, Duke University. Before going to Duke in 2005, she taught at Wesleyan University where she also served as Dean of Arts and Humanities. She was trained at Wellesley College and Princeton University. Antonaccio is codirector of the Morgantina Excavations (Sicily) and has also excavated in Greece and Cyprus. Her interests include the Greek Iron Age, colonization, and ethnic and cultural identity.
Sinclair Bell is Associate Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews on Roman spectacles and social history. He is the coeditor of five volumes, including Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity (Oxford, 2004).
Giampiero Bevagna earned his laurea from the University of Perugia in 1997. He was visiting lecturer at the Department of Classics of Dartmouth College in 2006–7. He currently teaches Italian and Latin literature and history at a liceo in Perugia, and lectures on Roman history at the Umbra Institute. His research focuses on Etruscan history and art, and Roman Republican history. His main interests are iconological analysis and the making and reception of symbolism through art.
Stephen Brunet is Associate Professor of Classics and Affiliate Faculty in Kinesiology at the University of New Hampshire. His scholarly work focuses on such topics as the use of dwarf athletes in the Roman games and the careers of young athletes during the Roman Empire. He is coauthor, along with Stephen Trzaskoma and R. Scott Smith, of the Anthology of Classical Myth (2004).
Michael J. Carter is Associate Professor of Classics at Brock University in Canada. He has authored several articles concerning the organization and logistics of gladiatorial munera and is especially interested in the diffusion of these Roman spectacles into the eastern, Greek, regions of the Roman Empire.
Paul Christesen, Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has authored Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History (2007), Sport and Democracy in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (2012), and various articles on Greek historiography and ancient sport.
Hazel Dodge is Louis Claude Purser Associate Professor at Trinity College, Dublin. Her research interests include the architecture of ancient spectacle, the employment and symbolism of decorative stones in ancient architecture, and the city of Rome. She has published extensively on Roman archaeology, including essays on buildings for staging and watching spectacles. Recently she has published a volume on spectacle in the Roman world for Bristol Classical Press. A new source book on Rome with Jon Coulston and Christopher Smith is forthcoming.
Roger Dunkle, Professor Emeritus of Classics at Brooklyn College, is the author of Gladiators: Violence and Spectacle in Ancient Rome (2008) and articles on athletics in Greek and Roman epic.
Chris Epplett (PhD University of British Columbia), Associate Professor of History at the University of Lethbridge, has written a number of articles on ancient spectacle, in particular the Roman beast hunts. He is currently writing a manuscript on the same topic.
Garrett G. Fagan is Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and History at Penn State University. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and the books Bathing in Public in the Roman World (Ann Arbor, 1999) and The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games (Cambridge, 2011). In addition, he has edited Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public (London, 2006) and, with Matthew Trundle, New Perspectives on Ancient Warfare (Leiden, 2010).
Donald G. Kyle, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, has authored Athletics in Ancient Athens (1987), Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome (1998), Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (2007), and various articles on ancient sport.
Andrew Lear has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Pomona College; he is currently a member of the Department of Classics at New York University. His research focuses on Archaic lyric and elegiac, Athenian vase painting, and the history of sexuality. He is the author (with Eva Cantarella) of Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty: Boys Were Their Gods (Routledge, 2008) and several articles, including “Anacreon’s ‘Self’: An Alternative Role Model for the Archaic Elite Male?” (American Journal of Philology, 2008) and “The Pederastic Elegies and the Authorship of the Theognidea,” (Classical Quarterly, 2011). His next book, Ancient Greek Pederasty: History of a Custom and Its Idealization, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Hugh M. Lee is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The Program and Schedule of the Ancient Olympic Games (Hildesheim, 2001) and articles and book chapters on Greek and Roman sports. His current research interests lie in the history of the scholarship of Greek and Roman sport, in particular, the contributions of Girolamo Mercuriale, Petrus Faber, and Gilbert West. Since 1988, Lee has served on the editorial board of Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum.
Rose MacLean is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the role of freed slaves in the development of Roman social values during the Early Empire and is working on a book project based on that study. Her research interests focus on the relationship between the Roman elite and marginalized social groups, with emphasis on the material record.
Kathryn Mammel is a JD candidate at Yale Law School. She graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2011 with a degree in Classical Archaeology.
Christian Mann is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Mannheim, Germany. He has authored Athlet und Polis im archaischen und frühklassischen Griechenland (2001), Die Demagogen und das Volk. Zur politischen Kommunikation im Athen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (2007), and “Um keinen Kranz, um das Leben kämpfen wir!” Gladiatoren im Osten des Römischen Reiches und die Frage der Romanisierung (2011). He is coeditor of Rollenbilder in der athenischen Demokratie (2009) and the author of several scholarly articles on Athenian democracy and on sport and spectacle in antiquity.
Stephen G. Miller, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology of the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Excavations at Nemea II: The Early Hellenistic Stadium (2001), Nemea: A Guide to the Site and Museum (2004), Arete: Ancient Greek Sports from Ancient Sources, 3rd ed. (2004), Ancient Greek Athletics (2004), and Plato at Olympia (2009).
Sarah C. Murray is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Notre Dame University. She is the author, with Paul Christesen, of an article on Macedonian religion in the Companion to Ancient Macedonia (2010, Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington, eds.).
Jenifer Neils is the Ruth Coulter Heede Professor of Art History and Classics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She organized the exhibitions Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (1992) and Coming of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (2003 with J. Oakley) and is the editor of Worshipping Athena: Panathenaia and Parthenon (1996) and The Parthenon from Antiquity to the Present (2005).
Nigel Nicholson is the Walter Mintz Professor of Classics at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece (Cambridge University Press, 2005). In 2005 he was named Oregon’s Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation, and in 2006 served as president of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest.
Thomas Heine Nielsen is Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Ancient Greek in the Section for Greek and Latin in the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen. In 1993–2003 he worked at the Copenhagen Polis Centre at the University of Copenhagen and was contributor to and coeditor of the Centre’s massive Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford, 2004). His publications include books on Arcadia and Olympia (Defining Ancient Arkadia (1999), Arkadia and Its Poleis in the Archaic and Classical Periods (2002), Olympia and the Classical Hellenic City-State Culture (2007)) as well as numerous articles on Greek history, including studies on Greek sport and the Panhellenic sanctuaries at Nemea and Delphi.
Zinon Papakonstantinou is Assistant Professor of Classics and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has authored Lawmaking and Adjudication in Archaic Greece (2008), edited Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World: New Perspectives (2010), and coedited Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (2011). He has also published several articles on sport, drinking, leisure, and law in Archaic and Classical Greece.
David Alan Parnell is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest and is a historian of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire. His dissertation is entitled “Justinian’s Men: The Ethnic and Regional Origins of Byzantine Officers and Officials, ca. 518–610” (Saint Louis University, 2010). He is the author of “A Prosopographical Approach to Justinian’s Army,” Medieval Prosopography 27 (2012), 1–75 and “The Careers of Justinian’s Generals,” Journal of Medieval Military History 10 (2012), 1–16.
Timothy P. J. Perry is a lecturer in the Department of Classics at Dartmouth College. He holds a PhD in classics from the University of Toronto, where he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the theme of exile in Homeric epic. He works primarily on Archaic Greek poetry and culture.
Werner Petermandl, an Austrian historian of antiquity, is lecturer at the universities of Innsbruck and Graz and coeditor of the journal Nikephoros (Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum). He has participated in research projects on ancient sport and spectators. He is coauthor of the volumes Laufen (2002) and Ringen (1998) in the series Quellendokumentation zur Gymnastik und Agonistik im Altertum (I. Weiler, ed.) and has written several articles on ancient sport.
H. W. Pleket, a scholar of ancient epigraphy and history and retired Professor of Ancient History, University of Leiden, coauthored The Olympic Games (1976) with M. I. Finley, and has for many years published numerous articles and also commentaries and translations of recently discovered inscriptions. He has been on the editorial board of Nikephoros, and he has long edited the standard reference work for Greek inscriptions, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.
Sofie Remijsen is Juniorprofesseur at the Historisches Institut at the University of Mannheim. Her main research focus is Greek sport from the Hellenistic period to Late Antiquity. She has published several papers on this topic, for example on sport under the early Ptolemies, on the Olympic Games of Antioch, and on pammachon, a Late-Antique combat sport, and she wrote her dissertation on the end of Greek athletics. She also published articles on other aspects of Greco-Roman culture in Egypt, for example brother–sister marriages.
David Gilman Romano (davidgilmanromano.org) is Karabots Professor of Greek Archaeology in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He is the field director and the codirector of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project. He has been the director of the Corinth Computer Project (corinthcomputerproject.org) since 1988. His publications on ancient sport include Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion (1993).
Jeremy Rutter is Sherman Fairchild Professor of the Humanities Emeritus and Professor of Classics at Dartmouth College. He is the author, with his wife, Sally, of The Transition to Mycenaean (Los Angeles, 1976), sole author of Lerna III: The Pottery of Lerna IV (Princeton, 1995), and coeditor of Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Princeton, 2007). He has written or coauthored more than fifty articles on the Aegean Bronze Age since 1975.
Michael Scott is Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. He is author of From Democrats to Kings (2009), Delphi and Olympia (2010), and Space and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds (2012) and editor of Risk (2012). His next book will be published by Princeton University Press in 2014. See www.michaelcscott.com for more details.
Jerry Toner is Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Leisure and Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 1995) and Popular Culture in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 2009). His next book looks at how post-Classical historians and travel writers have used ancient texts to help them create various images of Islam and the Orient.
Zara Martirosova Torlone (PhD Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Classics at Miami University of Ohio. She is the author of Russia and the Classics: Poetry’s Foreign Muse (Duckworth, 2009), coeditor of Outsiders and Insiders in Russian Cinema (Indiana UP, 2008), and the author of several scholarly articles on Vergil, the Roman novel, the Olympic victor list in the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea, and the reception of antiquity in Russia.
Steven L. Tuck is Associate Professor of Classics and the History of Art at Miami University of Ohio. His scholarship includes articles on the spectacle schedule at Pompeii, the decorative program of the amphitheater at Capua, and triumphal imagery across the ancient Roman world. He is also the author of a history of Roman art forthcoming from Wiley-Blackwell.
Ingomar Weiler, retired Professor of Ancient History at the Universities of Innsbruck and Graz (Austria), and lecturer for sport history and Supervising Professor at the International Olympic Academy in Greece, has published two monographs on ancient sport – Der Agon im Mythos (1974) and Der Sport bei den Völkern der alten Welt (1981, 2nd edition 1988) – and many articles concerning agonistics and gymnastics. He is the editor of Quellendokumentation zur Gymnastik und Agonistik im Altertum (1991–2002) and coeditor of Nikephoros. Now retired, and honored by a festschrift (Mauritsch, Ulf, Rollinger, et al. 2008), Dr Weiler is completing a project on “Korruption und Kontrolle in der antiken Agonistik.”
John Zaleski is a doctoral candidate in the study of religion at Harvard University, with a broad interest in ancient and medieval religious history. His recent work has focused on intellectual exchange among medieval Christians and Muslims, as well as the heritage of classical thought in the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds.