Susan Heuck Allen is Visiting Scholar in the Department of Classics at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. in Classics and Classical Archaeology from Brown University, after earning degrees from the University of Cincinnati and Smith College. Her areas of expertise – Troy and the history of archaeology – were combined in her book, Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik (University of California Press — Berkley, 1999). She is also the author of Excavating Our Past: Perspectives on the History of the Archaeological Institute of America, which is a part of the 2002 AIA Monograph Series, and recently published Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece (University of Michigan Press, 2011).  Dr. Allen has held positions at Smith College, and Clark and Yale Universities, and has done fieldwork in Cyprus, Israel, and Knossos. She was named a Mellon Fellow in 2008, and has held a number of other fellowships.

Tara Baldrick-Morrone (she/her/hers) is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Critical Classical Studies in the Department of Classics here at Brown University. She obtained a PhD in Religion with a focus on Religions of Western Antiquity from Florida State University in 2020. Before coming to Brown, she was a contingent faculty member at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Wake Forest University, where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses on history, religion, gender, horror, and film. Her book project, which is a revision of her dissertation, focuses on the rhetoric of abortion in the ancient Mediterranean and the ways that American scholars and politicians use ancient Mediterranean texts to shape reproductive healthcare today. Tentatively titled Reproducing History: Antiquity, Abortion, and Politics in Twentieth-Century America, the project relies on extensive archival work, some of which is generously funded by the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium through the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Vangelis Calotychos was born and bred in London, U.K. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, and has taught at Harvard, NYU, and Columbia. Currently Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at Brown, he teaches courses in comparative literature, cultural studies, and reception studies. In the 1990s, his concern for reconciliation after ethnic conflict led him to edit two interdisciplinary and intercommunal volumes about Cyprus. This enduring interest in culture and politics in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans informs his later work, as in Manolis Anagnostakis: Poetry & Politics, Silence & Agency in Post-War Greece (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012). He has published two monographs: Modern Greece: A Cultural Poetics (2004) discusses the terms of modernity and “self-colonization” in Greece from just before the founding of the nation state down to the present; and The Balkan Prospect: Identity, Culture, and Politics in Greece After 1989 (2013) offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Greece's position within and without the Balkans and Europe after the Cold War. It was awarded the Edmund Keeley Book Prize. Contributions on the Greek Weird Wave & Beyond for a co-edited special issue of The Journal of Greek Media and Culture (2:2, 2016) grow out of more recent research on resistance in Greek film. He was founder and longtime chair of The Modern Greek Seminar at Columbia (2005-14) and, since 2019, he serves as the Executive Director of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA).

Lisa Kraege is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Critical Classical Studies. She received her PhD in English from Princeton University in 2024. She studies how ancient models of aesthetic perception and experience were received and deployed in eighteenth-century and Romantic Britain, and the geopolitical and ideological stakes of such interactions. She is at work on a book project that considers the rise of aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain through a comparison of classical and colonial landscapes. She is also a freelance editor.

Byron MacDougall earned his PhD in Classics from Brown in 2015 with a dissertation entitled "Gregory of Nazianzus and Christian Festival Rhetoric." His research interests focus on Classical rhetoric and philosophy in Late Antique and Byzantine literature. Before returning to Brown, he held research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks, the University of Vienna, and Princeton. A former secondary school Classics teacher, his publications cover topics including the Cappadocian Fathers, the Ancient Greek and Latin novels, and the reception of Plato from the Second Sophistic to Byzantium.

Ambra Marzocchi is Postdoctoral Research Associate in "Humanities in the Colonial World c. 1500-1750", with a joint appointment at the Brown Department of Classics and at the Center for the Study of the Early Modern World within the Brown Cogut Institute for the Humanities. Trained as a classical philologist in Italy and as a historian of the book in the United States, she specializes in the study of the history of scholarship and humanist education in early colonial Spanish America, seeking to advance the understanding of the cultural-historical dynamics surrounding the early modern transmission of Greco-Roman, pagan and Christian, literatures, through humanistic — and specifically Jesuit — pedagogy, from Europe to colonial Mexico. For her doctoral work at Johns Hopkins University, she edited and studied the first textbook of Latin poetry printed in the Americas. At Brown, she is expanding her analysis to a wider array of Latin textbooks used in colonial Mexico, many of which are preserved in the University’s bibliographic collections. Her teaching philosophy is inspired by tenets of Renaissance educational treatises, which she put into practice at the University of Kentucky’s Institutum Studiis Latinis Provehendis. In 2022 she was elected Fellow of the Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance associated with Johns Hopkins University.