Authors

Airton Pollini
Archaeologist and historian specializing in the ancient Greek world, teaching at the Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, France. He co-edited La Question de l’espace au IVe siècle av. J.-C. dans les mondes grec et étrusco-italique with Sophie Montel, published by Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté in 2018.

Anita Fattori
She's a Ph.D. candidate in Social History at the University of São Paulo and holds a scholarship from FAPESP. Her thesis focuses on "Women and Commercial Networks in 20th- and 19th-Century BCE Assyria." She's also a member of the Ancient Near East Laboratory at the University of São Paulo.

Carlos Machado
He is a historian and professor at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, specializing in Late Antiquity, with a particular focus on Rome and Italy. He is the author of Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome (Oxford University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Poverty in the Ancient Greece and Rome (Routledge, 2023).

Cristina Rosillo López
She's a historian and professor of Ancient History at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Spain, delving into the political culture and social and economic history of Ancient Rome. She is the author of Public Opinion and Politics in the Late Roman Republic, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.

Cyril Courier
He's a historian and professor of Roman History at Aix-Marseille Université in France. His research spans the social and economic history of ancient Rome, Roman epigraphy, and popular culture. He is the author of La plèbe de Rome et sa culture (EFR, 2014) and co-editor (with Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira) of Ancient History from Below (Routledge, 2022).

Delphine Driaux
She's an Egyptologist and archaeologist, serving as the deputy director of the Middle Egypt Project at the University of Vienna. She leads the project "Representations and reality of poverty in ancient Egypt", funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), based at the University of Vienna. She is the author (with Marie-Lys Arnette) of the book Instantanés d'Égypte (Ifao, 2016).

Erica Angliker
She's an archaeologist and researcher at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London. Currently, she's in the process of preparing the publication of her thesis, which focuses on the cult of gods and heroes on the Cycladic islands during the archaic and classical periods. Her research explores the cultic practices of shepherds, travelers, and other groups outside the polis.

Fabio Augusto Morales
He's a historian and professor of Ancient History at UFSC. His research focuses on the roles of foreigners and slaves in Athenian democracy and Greek cities during the Hellenistic period, approached from the perspective of Global History. He's the author of A Democracia Ateniense pelo Avesso, published by Edusp in 2014.

Fabio Duarte Joly
A historian and professor of ancient history at UFOP, he studies the social and economic history of Rome, particularly the issue of slavery. He is the author of, among other works, A Escravidão na Roma Antiga (Alameda, 2005) and Libertate opus est: escravidão, manumissão e cidadania à época de Nero (Editora Progressiva, 2010).

Filipe Noé Silva
He holds a PhD in Cultural History from Unicamp and is a professor at UDESC. He studies slavery and society in imperial Rome and its provinces. He is the author of the book De escravos a benfeitores: os libertos e a munificência na Península Ibérica, published by Pedro & João Editores (2021).

Gabriel Cabral Bernardo
Holding a PhD in Social History from USP (defended in 2025), with research on the use of the sea and coastal regions of Laconia from the Archaic Period to the beginning of the Hellenistic Period, he is currently a substitute professor of Ancient History at UFSC. He is the author of the book Comandantes e Covardes: Honra e mérito em Esparta (Intermeios, 2020).

Giovanni Pando Bueno
Master's degree in Social History from USP (University of São Paulo) with a dissertation (defended in 2023) on visuality and memory in the political disputes of Rome during the times of Caesar and Augustus. Member of the Laboratory for Near Eastern Studies (LAOP/USP).

Jean-Pierre Guilhembet
Professor of Roman History at the Université Paris Diderot - Université de Paris and vice-president of the Société Française de Histoire Urbaine. He studies ancient urban history, particularly that of the city of Rome, a subject on which he has published numerous articles and book chapters.

Jonathan Cruz Moreira
Master's degree in History from the Federal University of São Paulo (2019) and PhD candidate in History at PPGH - UNIRIO, with a CAPES scholarship. Studies forms of popular participation and collective action in Rome at the end of the Republic and memory in ancient Rome.
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José Knust
He holds a PhD in History from the Federal Fluminense University and is a History professor at the Federal Fluminense Institute. He is the author of Senhores de Escravos, Senhores da Razão: racionalidade e ideologia na escravidão rural romana (séc. II-I a.C.) (Essentia, 2024).

Juliana Marques Morais
She holds a PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo. Her thesis focused on the process of demonizing religious adversaries in North Africa between the 4th and 5th centuries AD.

Kostas Vlassopoulos
Historian and professor of Ancient History at the University of Crete. He studies the history of slavery and intercultural encounters in Antiquity, among other topics. He is the author of Unthinking the Greek Polis , published by Cambridge UP (2007), and Historicising Ancient Slavery , published by Edinburgh UP (2021).

Lourdes Conde Feitosa
She holds a PhD in Cultural History from Unicamp and is a professor at Unisagrado. She has dedicated herself to the study of Pompeii graffiti, focusing on sexuality and gender relations. She is the author of the book *Love and Sexuality: the masculine and the feminine in Pompeii graffiti* , published by Annablume (2005).

Lucy Grig
Historian and professor of Roman History at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland). She studies the birth of hagiography, cultural history, and popular culture in the Roman world. She is the author of the book Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400–550 , published by Cambridge University Press (2024) .

Marcos Leitão de Almeida
Doutor em História da África pela Northwestern University e professor substituto na UFJF. Estuda as práticas de escravidão no Baixo Congo na longa duração por meio de métodos linguísticos, fontes arqueológicas e documentais. É autor do livro Quebrando o Silêncio: a longa história da escravidão no Baixo Congo (Vozes, 2024).

Nara Oliveira
Graduada em História pela USP, é autora do blog Leituras de uma Historiadora no Instagram. Pesquisou as transformações nos fóruns de Lépcis Magna (África do Norte) na Antiguidade Tardia. Foi editora da seção Entrevistas do blog.

Pedro Benedetti
Doutor em História Social pela USP. Estudou as relações entre as populações romanas e os bárbaros na Gália dos séculos IV e V d.C. É o tradutor de Amiano Marcelino, Histórias, livro 31 e Anônimo Valesiano, publicado pela Editora CRV (2016).

Pedro Paulo Funari
Historiador e arqueólogo, é Professor Titular de História Antiga da Unicamp. É autor e co-autor de centenas de artigos e de mais de cem livros, entre eles Cultura Popular na Antiguidade Clássica (Contexto, 1989), Historical Archaeology: Back from the Edge (Routledge, 1999) e Grécia e Roma (Contexto, 2002).

Renata Senna Garraffoni
Historiadora e professora titular de História Antiga na UFPR. Ela se interessa pelo Império Romano e tem estudado as vidas das pessoas comuns, os grafites de Pompeia e as lutas de gladiadores. É autora do livro Gladiadores na Roma Antiga (2a ed. UFPR, 2021) e organizadora (com M. Garcia Sánchez) de Mulheres, Gênero e Estudos Clássicos (UFPR/Univ. Barcelona, 2020).

Thais Rocha da Silva
Egiptóloga e arqueóloga, é doutora pela Universidade de Oxford e professora da UFMG. Foi Research Fellow do Harris Manchester College (Universidade de Oxford) e pós-doutoranda pela USP. É membro do LAOP/USP e do Amarna Project. Estuda as moradias e o espaço doméstico dos antigos egípcios durante o Reino Novo (c. 1550-1069 a.C.).