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Giuseppe (Joey) Ficocelli

Giuseppe (Joey) Ficocelli

Chief Editor

PhD candidate in Classics at the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies. PhD examines the economic history of Roman aristocratic wealth from the 3rd to 1st centuries BCE and how it influenced the political process. 

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Lucilla Crespi

Lucilla Crespi

Senior Editor

Third Year PhD Candidate in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Lucilla’s research investigates fable and folktale elements found across Homeric similes through a comparative analysis with Near Eastern and Greek folklore narrative motifs. Her expertise beyond the Homeric epics include archaic Greek poetry, ancient fable and folklore, Greek art and archaeology and ancient Greek language. Other interests include communication and public outreach in the field of humanities and activism for human and animal rights.

Dr. Thomas Husøy

Dr. Thomas Husøy

Associate Editor & Peer Review Coordinator

Thomas Alexander Husøy-Ciaccia obtained his PhD in Ancient History from Swansea University. His PhD research focused on the connections between ethnicity and federalism from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period of Greek history. In this project, he focused primarily on the regions of Phocis, Boeotia, Arcadia, and Aetolia – but also produced studies of Triphylia and Achaea in his appendices. He is passionate about outreach and currently works as a Heritage Officer at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre in Cardiff Bay. Other research interest includes, but are not limited to, history use and historical consciousness in Greek Antiquity, Polybius, the coming of Rome in the Greek East, and the Lucanians.

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Dr. Nick Cross

Dr. Nick Cross

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Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History at the United States Naval Academy. PhD (in History at CUNY) explored the construction of interstate alliances in the archaic and classical Greek periods. Current monograph project is a history of the period between the Athenian Empire and the Second Athenian Confederacy with a focus on Thrasybulus of Steiria. Other research interests include Greek and Latin language and literature, ancient religions, numismatics, epigraphy, and historiography.

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Cole Phelps

Cole Phelps

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MPhil candidate in Classics (Ancient Philosophy) at the University of Cambridge. Current research interests include the metaphysics of mental content in Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia, the role of memory in non-normative cognitive states, and interactions between ancient zoology and medicine.

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Dr. Jordon Houston

Dr. Jordon Houston

Editor-at-Large

PhD in Classics from the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies in 2021. PhD reconstructs the financial aspects of the organisation of Roman Entertainment (gladiatorial combats, athletics, theatre, and chariot racing) between the first century and third century AD.

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Dr. Karolina Frank

Dr. Karolina Frank

Senior Editor

PhD in History from University College London. PhD thesis examines the interweaving of economic and social practices with the art of divination at the oracle of Dodona (Epirus) in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

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Dr. Antonino Crisà

Dr. Antonino Crisà

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PhD in Archaeology from the University of Leicester (2015), currently Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and Humanities at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, previously Research Fellow at the University of Warwick (2016-19) and Ghent University (2019-22) carrying out his Marie Curie Sklodowska Individual Fellowship on Sicilian antiquities and museums during World War 2. He is an archaeologist, historian, numismatist and classicist with a strong interest in material culture, coin circulation, coin hoards, history of archaeology and collecting, cultural heritage and museum studies.

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Dr.  Martine Diepenbroek

Dr. Martine Diepenbroek

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Martine Diepenbroek is a Dutch Classicist and Ancient Historian who finished a PhD in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol in 2021. She works on secret communication in the ancient world. She is currently working on various publications based on her PhD thesis. The whole thesis will also be turned into a book with Bloomsbury Publishing House (London).

Dr. Daniel Wendt

Dr. Daniel Wendt

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PhD in Classics from the Universities of Bonn, Paris, and Florence in 2018. PhD examines the discourse on ancient obscenity in Early Modern France and how it shaped the idea of modernity. Current research interests include anecdotal knowledge, genre theories, and satirical writings.

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Dr. Guendalina D.M. Taietti

Dr. Guendalina D.M. Taietti

Chief Editor

Honorary Research Fellow and Tutor in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. Guen's research focuses on Ancient Macedon, Animals and Vegetarianism in Antiquity (Greece and China), and Ancient and Modern Greek Receptions of Alexander the Great. She is passionate about teaching and making Classics accessible to the wider public.

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James Worth

James Worth

Associate Editor & Peer Review Coordinator

MA student in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at University College London, specialising in Late Antique History from Diocletian to Charlemagne. Research interests include interdisciplinary approaches to the study of social identities and beliefs within the early Germanic successor states, the transformation of the Late Antique Epigraphic habit, and the expansion and evolution of early Christianity. 

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Giulia Tonon

Giulia Tonon

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Second Year PhD Candidate in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Giulia’s research investigates the phenomena of diglossia and societal bilingualism in the Ptolemaic Period. Her research interests include ancient languages (Egyptian, Greek and Latin), palaeography, epigraphy and multilingualism, with a specific focus on Graeco-Roman Egypt. She is passionate about archaeology and has been involved in numerous excavations across the UK and abroad.

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Dr. Fabrizio Biglino

Dr. Fabrizio Biglino

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Fabrizio Biglino is currently a researcher at the Universitá degli Studi di Torino; he has  completed a PhD in Classics and Ancient History at Royal Holloway, University of  London. Between 2016 and 2019 he has taught Roman History at the Department of  Classics at Royal Holloway, first as Tutor, then as Visiting Lecturer while, from this  year, teaches online Roman History courses at the Instituto Mundo Antigo. His research is focused on the military history of the Roman Republic, in particular the  period between the fourth and first centuries BC, the economic impact of the army and  military service, the Punic Wars, Roman colonization and movement of people during  the Republican period. He is author of several articles on these topics and is currently  working on his monograph, The War Economy of the Roman Republic.

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Dr. Joel Gordon

Dr. Joel Gordon

Special Editions Editor

PhD in Classics from the University of Otago, New Zealand. PhD explores ancient conceptions of the underworld in literature and myth and how ‘inconsistencies’ can be resolved holistically via eschatological context. Research interests also include classical reception, in particular gods and heroes in film, comics and gaming.

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