Contributors

Sandra Blakely is associate professor of classics at Emory University, with re­search interests in Greek religion, historiography, digital approaches to antiquity, and the anthropology and ethnography of the ancient world.

Susan Ludi Blevins researches the relationship between material culture, re­ligion, and memory in the Roman and Greek world; the intersection of visual culture with issues of identity, power and representation; the topography and built environment of sacred space; and cognition and visual culture. She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Georgia Program in Cortona, and Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis and a member of the excavation team at the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace. Blevins.susan@wustl.edu

Oded Borowski is professor of biblical archaeology and Hebrew at Emory Uni­versity. He has conducted field work at Gezer, Dan, Ashkelon, and Beth Shemesh, and helped initiate the Lahav Research Project, an excavation and survey in Tel Halif and its environs. He has been co-director of Phase III and director of Phase IV of research at Tell Halif.

Seung Ho Bang has been a staff member of the Lahav Research Project, the Phase IV excavation at Tell Halif, Israel. He studies domestic cult objects, such as small limestone incense altars found in Tell Halif, and the relationship between domes­tic religious practices and household production at the end of the eighth-century BCE Tell Halif. seunghobang15@gmail.com

Kook-Young Yoon is a PhD candidate of the Sonia and Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. He has conducted field work at different sites in Israel as a volunteer as well as a staff. He has been interested mainly in material culture, society, iconography and religion of the Iron Age and Persian period of Ancient Israel; his current research focuses on mechanism of manufacture and circulation of clay figurines of late Iron Age kingdom of Judah through combina­tive investigation of iconography, typology and petrography. kyjydw@gmail.com

Yuval Goren is professor of archaeology, head of the Track in Archaeomaterials Science and Conservation (now a Marie Curie ITN member of the European Doctorate in Archaeological Materials Science framework and Director of the Laboratory for Microarchaeology at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. His scholarly specialization is provenance and technological studies of archaeological ceramics (including seal impressions and cuneiform tablets), and the application of micromorphological methods in archaeology. His regions of focus reach from West Asia and the Levant to the eastern Mediterranean.

Sheramy Bundrick is professor of Art History at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, where she has taught since 2001. She has held fellowships from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Ful­bright Foundation. Most recently, she was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome during the 2013-14 academic year. Her publications include Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge University Press 2005), and nu­merous articles and chapters on on iconography, ranging from Athenian eye cups to textile production, sacrifice and Dionysian themes. In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Bundrick is the author of Sunflowers: A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh (Avon/Harper Collins 2009). bundrick@usfsp.edu

Erin Darby is assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her research foci include Judean Pillar Fi­gurines, coroplastic production, gender and sexuality, religious identities, Iron Age shrines in southern Israel and Jordan, and ongoing field work at the Late Roman Fort at Ayn Gharandal, Jordan. Her publications include Interpreting Ju­dean Pillar Figurines: Gender and Empire in Judean Apotropaic Ritual (Mohr Siebeck 2014), and numerous articles focusing on questions of method, theory, and interpretation in the context of Biblical archaeology. She is currently at work as co-editor and author on several book projects, including her next monograph Method and Theory in the Archaeology of Israelite Religion and a co-edited vo­lume with Izaak de Hulster, Iron Age Terracotta Figurines in the Southern Le­vant. edarby1@utk.edu

Meghan DiLuzio is assistant professor of Classics at Baylor University; her re­search interests include Roman cultural history, religion in ancient Rome, and gender in antiquity. She is the author of A Place at the Altar: Priestesses in Repu­blican Rome (Princeton University Press 2016), a recipient of the 2017 Classical Association of the Middle West and South First Book Prize.

Annewies van den Hoek was a lecturer (now retired) in Jewish and Early Chris­tian Greek at Harvard Divinity School, and currently an associate at the Harvard Semitic Museum. Among her works are Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise: Ico- nographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity, co-authored with her husband John J. Herrmann (Brill 2013); Clement d'Alexandrie, Les Stromates. Stromate IV. Introduction, texte grec et notes par A. van den Hoek, traduction de C. Mon­desert (etitions du Cerf 2001); Clement of Alexandria and his Use of Philo in the Stromateis: An Early Christian Reshaping of a Jewish Model (Brill 1988), and Light from the Age of Augustine. Late Antique Ceramics from North Africa (Tu­nisia) (Harvard 2002), co-authored with her husband John H. Herrmann. An- newies_vandenhoek@harvard.edu

Isabel Koster is assistant professor of classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, studying the history and literature of the Roman Republic and ear­ly Empire with a special interest in the intersection between religion and law. Her publications include “How to Kill a Roman Villain: The Deaths of Quintus Pleminius” (Classical Journal 109 (2014): 309-332) and “Feasting Centaurs and Destructive Consuls in Cicero's In Pisonem” (Illinois Classical Studies 39 (2014): 63-79). Her current book project examines temple robbery in the Roman world from the third century BCE to the second century CE. Future projects include a study of Roman ideas about divine punishment. Isabel.koster@colorado.edu

Bert Lott is professor of Greek and Roman Studies at Vassar College, and a his­torian of ancient Rome. In his research he emphasizes the political, social, and religious changes associated with the beginnings of the monarchical Roman Em­pire, as well as the development of the “epigraphic habit.” His publications include The Neighborhoods of Augustan Rome (Cambridge University Press 2004) and Death and Dynasty in Early Imperial Rome (Cambridge University Press 2012).

Jill E. Marshall completed her PhD in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emo­ry University. Her first book, Women Praying and Prophesying in Corinth: Gen­der and Inspired Speech in First Corinthians (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017), situates Paul's arguments about prayer and prophecy within their ancient Me­diterranean cultural context, using literary and archaeological evidence. Her re­search foci include gender, sexuality, prophecy, and magic in early Christianity, as well as the reception history of characters and locations in the New Testament. She has published articles in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and Sacred Matters Magazine. jill.marshall@emory.edu

Eric Moore completed his PhD in the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University, with a dissertation titled ‘Claiming Places', an exploration of Acts in light of Greek and Roman colonization motifs. His research bridges literary and material evidence and interactions between Jewish, Christian and Greco-Roman cultures. His current foci include inscriptions and monuments at Aphrodisias, the social sciences in New Testament interpretation, and two projects related to Acts. The first of these examines appeals to Jewish patriarchs in the speeches of Acts as a function of history writing and in light of ancestor veneration in Greek and Roman antiquity. The second explores the replication of Christianity in Luke's narrative alongside traditions of cult transfer in Greek and Roman sources. He also has plans for a work surveying the use of material culture in New Testament interpretation. epmoore0804@gmail.com

Megan Nutzman is assistant professor of history at Old Dominion University. Her work focuses on the intersection of Greco-Roman religions, Judaism, and Christianity, with a special emphasis on the land of Israel. Among her research interests are questions related to magic, material culture, and women in ancient religions. Her current project, tentatively entitled Contested Cures, identifies four categories of ritual healing in Roman and Late Antique Palestine, based on the ways that people believed miraculous cures could be transmitted: holy men, sa­cred places, performative acts, and amulets.

Lela Urquhart completed her PhD at Stanford University, with a dissertation focused on Colonial Religion and Indigenous Society in the Archaic Western Mediterranean, c 750-400 BCE. Her research foci include postcolonialism, ri­tual practice, and historiography, with a special focus on archaic Sicily. Her scho­larship builds on her fieldwork at Socio-Verdura and Monte Polizzo in Sicily, Tel Dor, Mochlos, and North Carolina. Recent publications include “Competing Traditions in the Historiography of Ancient Greek Colonization in Italy”, Journal of the History of Ideas 75.1 (2014): 23-44, (2014), and “English-Speaking Tradi­tions and the Study of the Ancient Greeks Outside their Homelands,” in Franco De Angelis, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Greeks across the Ancient World (Oxford 2017). Her current project is titled Measuring the Impact of Coloniza­tion: Colonial Religion and Indigenous Society in Archaic Sicily and Sardinia. lelamurquhart@gmail.com

Eric Varner is associate professor in the Departments of Art History and Classics at Emory University. His monograph (Mutilation and Transformation: Damna­tio Memoriae and Roman Imperial Portraiture) and exhibition catalogue (From Caligula to Constantine: Tryanny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture) explore the destruction and reconfiguration of the portraits of Rome's “bad” em­perors, including Caligula, Nero, Domitian, and Commodus. He has published articles on Roman portraits, damnatio memoriae, patronage, Roman replications of Greek sculpture, and Neronian art. He is currently completing a book exami­ning art, literature and politics in the Neronian period entitled, Grotesque Aes­thetics: Transgression and Transcendence in the Age of Nero. evarner@emory. edu