Notes on Contributors

Martin Bommas received his PhD from the University of Heidelberg and worked as Assistant Professor at the University of Basel before he became Senior Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham in 2006.

Ken Dowden studied at Worcester College, Oxford, before he became Lecturer at University College Cardiff in 1974. Since 1988 he has worked at the University of Birmingham where he became Professor of Classics. Since 2005 he has been Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity. Among his recent publications are Zeus (2006) and A Companion to Greek Mythology (2011, co-edited with Niall Livingstone).

Juliette Harrisson is a Visiting Lecturer at the universities of Birmingham and Liverpool, Newman University College and the Open University. Specializing in myth, religion and memory in the Roman world, her research has also led her to explore the reception of the ancient world in modern popular culture. She has published on cultural memory and identity and on the reception of Greek mythology, and her monograph Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination will be published by Continuum in 2013.

Gabrielle Heffernan is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham. Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2006 with a degree in Egyptology, she completed her MPhil in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham in 2010. Her current research focuses on cultural memory and kingship in the Egyptian Eighteenth Dynasty. Further research interests include funerary belief, architecture and personal religion in the Pharaonic period.

Ailsa Hunt is a doctoral candidate at Queens' College, Cambridge. Her main research interests are in Roman religion; her doctoral thesis examines the religious significance of trees in Roman culture.

Peter Kuhlmann holds a PhD and Habilitation from the University of Giessen. He held a position as Akademischer Rat in Classical Philology at the University of Düsseldorf before being appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Gottingen in 2004. In addition to a number of articles on Roman religion, he has also presented his studies on religion and memory in Religion und Erinnerung. Die Religionspolitik Kaiser Hadrians und ihre Rezeption in der antiken Literatur (2002).

David H. J. Larmour is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Classics at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, and the editor of The American Journal of Philology. He is co-founder and associate editor of Intertexts. The author of several books on topics ranging from Lucian, ancient sport and Juvenal to Foucault's History of Sexuality and Russian literature and the classics, he studies Greek and Latin language and literature as well as classical mythology, ancient sports and ancient Greek culture.

Daniele Miano graduated in the History of Religions at Sapienza University of Rome. He is doing his doctoral studies in Ancient History at the University of Manchester and at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. His recently published monograph examines the relationship between monuments and Roman culture in mid-Republican Rome.

John P. Nielsen received his PhD from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 2008. He is the author of Sons and Descendants: A Social History of Kin Groups and Family Names in the Early Neo-Babylonian Period, 747-626 BC (2010), articles on Neo-Babylonian society and post-Kassite political history, and text editions of Neo-Babylonian and Ur III tablets. He is Assistant Professor of History at Loyola University of New Orleans.

Phoebe Roy is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham. She is a specialist in the history of the Roman Republic, currently completing her doctoral thesis on Cultural Memory and Roman Law.

Christopher Smith received his DPhil at the University of Oxford before moving to the University of St Andrews in 1992. In 2006 he was appointed as Vice-Principal before becoming Director of the British School at Rome in 2009. Professor Smith's most recent publication is Imperialism, Cultural Politics and Polybius (2012, co-edited with L. M. Yarrow)

Jennifer Westerfeld is Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, having received her PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of Egypt during Late Antiquity, and she is currently preparing a monograph on early Christian activity in the region of Abydos.