Editorial Board

Dr. Giuseppe (Joey) Ficocelli
Chief Editor
Sessional Lecturer at the University at the Univesity of Ottawa/Université d'Ottawa. PhD (in Classics at Institute of Classical Studies (SAS)) examined the economic history of Roman aristocratic wealth from the 3rd to 1st centuries BCE and how it intersected with Republican politics.

Dr. Nick Cross
Editor
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.

Dr. Lucrezia Sperindio
Editor
Lucrezia is a Teaching Fellow and Sessional Tutor in Latin literature, in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She has recently completed her doctorate degree in Classics at Warwick with a dissertation entitled ‘Rethinking Horace’s Lyric modus: Horace’s 1-3 and Tragic Choral Lyric’, in which she examines the intertextual dialogue between Horace’s lyric poetry and Graeco-Roman tragic choral lyric. Her current research engages with lyric form and poetics, genre, and intertextuality in Latin poetry of the Augustan age. Her teaching experience ranges from the late Republic to the Trajanic age.

Dr. Jordon Houston
Editor-at-Large
Honorary academic in Ancient History and Classical Studies at the University of Auckland. 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. Current work includes globalisation of entertainment in the ancient world and global-historical analysis of ancient Mediterranean and Eurasian tattooing cultures.

Dr. Martine Diepenbroek
Editor
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. 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.

Dr. Giulia Tonon
Editor
Giulia is a postdoctoral researcher on the EduGRE project (Education in Graeco-Roman Egypt: An Intercultural Approach) at the University of Exeter, where she contributes specialist expertise in Demotic Egyptian. She earned her PhD in Egyptology from the University of Liverpool, with research focusing on diglossia and bilingualism in Ptolemaic Egypt. Her interests include ancient languages (Egyptian, Greek, and Latin), papyrology, multilingualism and ancient education, particularly in Graeco-Roman Egypt. She is also actively involved in archaeology and has participated in numerous excavations in the UK and internationally.
