Guests

Michael Hoffen is the youngest-ever recipient of the annual Emerson Prize, awarded by the Concord Review for outstanding promise in history. While still in middle school he was introduced to the joys of translating ancient texts and never looked back. During the pandemic, Michael decided to embark o...

Sabrina C. Higgins is an Assistant Professor cross-appointed between the Departments of Global Humanities and Archaeology at Simon Fraser University. She completed her Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, with a focus on the material evidence for the cult of the Virgin Mary in Lat...

Chelsea Gardner is a Classical Archaeologist and Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her research is centered around archaeological exploration in southern Greece, and her fieldwork is in the Mani peninsula, just south of ancient...

Sarah Beckmann is a Roman archaeologist specializing in domestic art and archaeology. She is currently working on her monograph, which re-investigates the villa phenomenon of the late antique period (mid-3rd to 5th c. CE). She treats the diverse material culture packages of villas in the western pro...

Born in York and raised in Italy, Martin studied Ancient History and Egyptology at UCL. He went on to do an MPhil and PhD in Assyriology at Cambridge, supervised by Nicholas Postgate. Most of Martin’s research is on Mesopotamian philology, literature, or the relation between the two. His first book,...

John Hyland is a Professor in the Department of History at Christopher Newport University, where he has taught since 2006. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee in the Ancient Mediterranean World, and his research examines Achaemenid Persian imperialism and interactions with...

Alan Lenzi (Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2006) is Professor of History at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He is the author of Secrecy and the Gods: Secret Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia and Biblical Israel (2008), An Introduction to Akkadian Literature: Contexts and Content (2019...

Roselyn A. Campbell is an archaeologist, bioarchaeologist, and Egyptologist. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside, and the Assistant Director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. Her research focuses primar...

Daniel W. Leon is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His main area of research is Greek and Roman historical narrative, particularly as it reflects intercultural relations and the political uses of the past. Additional interests include Hellenistic ...

Alex Purves joined the UCLA faculty in 2002 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and her BA and MA degrees at the University of Nottingham (UK). Her research focuses on Greek literature, primarily from the archaic and classical periods. She is currently working on two project...

Meghan Sullivan is the creator and host of History N' Games, a video and audio podcast that celebrates history by revealing the most sensational real stories hidden inside our favorite video games. See more from her at: https://www.youtube.com/@megsullivan/videos

Brent Vine is Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus at UCLA. He earned a Classical Diploma from Phillips Exeter Academy (1969) and went on to study Classics (AB 1973) and Linguistics (AM 1975, Ph.D. 1982) at Harvard University. He has taught at Phillips Academy (Andover), Yale, Princeton, and U...