Umberto Albarella | University of Sheffield | [email protected] | The contribution of animals to the history of Britain animals in the Mediterranean, especially Italy (primarily) and Greece. | zooarchaeology, domestication, husbandry, rituals, Italy, Greece. |
Felix Sadebeck | University of Exeter, University of Bristol | [email protected] | SWW-DTP funded PhD project: Conquest by Cattle – Investigating Changing Cattle Husbandry Practices in Roman South England | Roman Cattle; Geometric Morphometrics; Stable Isotope Analysis; Livestock Mobility. |
Albert Bates | University of Cambridge | [email protected] | Animals and Aesthetics in Classical Art History | Octopus, peacock, mimesis, ornament, aesthetics. |
Steven D. Smith | Hofstra University | [email protected] | Theophylact Simocatta; Aelian; animals in Greek, Roman, and early Byzantine literature | Theophylact Simocatta, Aelian. |
Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti | University of Liverpool | [email protected] | Human/non-human animal relationships, hybrids, vegetarianism, veterinary | Dog, pig, vegetarianism, hybrids, veterinary, ecology. |
Sian Lewis | University of St Andrews | [email protected] | Animal regionality in the Greek world; human-animal interactions | Regionalism; animal histories. |
Nelson Ferreira | University of Coimbra | [email protected] | Ancient fable; ancient agriculture | Sumerian literature; Latin literature; Greek literature; ancient cultures; semiotics. |
Kresimir Vukovic | Charles University, Prague | [email protected] | The Living Streams: Conceptions of Rivers in The Ancient Mediterranean | hybridity, wolves, rivers, snakes |
Rebecca Flemming | University of Exeter | [email protected] | Animals and the environment in ancient medicine and science (including animal nativities in astrology) | ancient medicine, ancient science, astrology |
Diana Rodriguez | University of Edinburgh | [email protected] | The Snake in the Ancient Greek World | snake, Greece, pottery, Greek art |
Tim Moller | Wolfson College, Oxford | [email protected] | DPhil research: Hunting Elephants – the archaeological pursuit of Nubia | elephants, Egypt, Ptolemies, Sudan, Meroe |
Erica Rowan | Royal Holloway | [email protected] | Negotiating the Modernity Crisis: Globalization, economic gain and the loss of traditional and sustainable food practices in Turkey (AHRC AH/V000454/1) | Roman, food, diet, food culture, Lydian, Italy, Turkey, economies of production, biofuels |
Hendrik Müller | Hochschule Fresenius | [email protected] | Ancient miscellany, esp. Aelian | animal ethics, emotions |
Suzanna Millar | University of Edinburgh | [email protected] | Nonhuman animals in the Hebrew Bible (focussing on intersectionality in the books of Samuel) | Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, ancient Near East, intersectionality |
Ryan Denson | Trent University/ University of Exeter | [email protected] | Sea monsters in the Greco-Roman imagination; hippocamps in ancient art and thought; the Constantinian uses of the phoenix | ancient mythical animals; animals in relation to divinities; monstrous animals; marine animals; animal folklore |
Emma Aston | University of Reading | [email protected] | Regional identity in ancient Thessaly; Thessalian landscapes, agriculture, pastoralism, myths and cults. Animal-human hybridism and ancient attitudes to non-human identities. | Thessaly; horses; landscapes; pastoralism; myths; cults |
Luise Marion Frenkel | Universidade de São Paulo | [email protected] | Late antique religious controversies | Entextualisation, migration, individualization, asceticism, performance |