Eva Prionas completed her BA at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and her Ph.D. in the field of Education at Stanford University. She has taught Greek language, literature and culture at Stanford University. Her expertise has contributed to the advancement of teaching methods and professional development in the field of language education with focus on less commonly taught languages. She is an advisor to academic language programs and she mentors community-based Greek schools. She is the Founder and President of the American Association of Teachers of Modern Greek (AATMG) and the Greek American Professional Women's Society (GAPWS)

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Grace Erny is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the archaeology and social history of Greece in the first millennium BCE, and her book project investigates social inequality and rural communities on the Greek island of Crete. Grace has worked as an archaeologist in Greece, Israel, Cyprus, and the United State

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Elle Ota received a B.A. in Archaeology and Classics, and an M.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University. Her research focused on the socio-politics of international cultural heritage, as well as the connections between classical history and modern-day communities. She has completed field research on a Roman shipwreck in Sicily, and worked at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre in Paris. She currently works as a Program Officer at the Human Rights Foundation, a New York-based nonprofit dedicated to promoting human rights in closed societies.

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Leah Packard-Grams (B.A., Bryn Mawr College, M.A., University of California, Berkeley) is a graduate student researcher with the Center for Tebtunis Papyri currently pursuing her PhD in the interdepartmental group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. She is interested in studying ancient scribal practices by examining the paleography of inscribed artifacts, using the lens of material engagement theory to illuminate past human action, and analyzing the relationships between stratigraphic units, findspots, and written content of textual artifacts.

 

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Kim Shelton is Director of the Nemea Center for Classical Archaeology at the University of California Berkeley. She directs excavations in Greece at the Sanctuary of Zeus, Ancient Nemea, the Petsas House, Mycenae, and the TAPHOS chamber tomb project at Aidonia. As a specialist in ceramics and the political economy of the prehistoric Aegean, her research is focused on workshop dynamics and their relationship to the market economy of pottery, the regional needs of a diverse population, and the Mycenaean palatial administration. Her research on ancient Greek ritual and religion explores the earliest manifestations of Greek religious ritual through permanent architectural establishments and ritual paraphernalia from the Bronze Age to the Archaic periods.

 

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Flavio Santini is a 4th year PhD student in the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology (AHMA) specializing in Greek and Roman history. He is particularly interested in Greek inscriptions and papyri of all periods.

 

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Nick Romeo is a journalist, critic, and essayist. His new book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy, uses extensive original reporting to provide a road map for a sustainable and survivable 21st-century economy. He has spent years covering policy and ideas for The New Yorker magazine and has contributed front page breaking news stories, profiles, and essays to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, and many other venues. He has a master’s degree in ancient Greek with a focus on philosophy and has written on ancient philosophy for various publications. He still enjoys reading ancient Greek texts and speaking modern Greek.

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