Lynn Roller is Professor Emerita of Art History and Classics at the University of California, Davis, where she has been a member of the faculty since 1977. She completed her B.A. and M.A. at Bryn Mawr College and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Her major research interests are in Greek art and archaeology, Greek cult practices, and Phrygian art, history, and cult. She has excavated in Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria, and has an ongoing affiliation with the Gordion Expedition in Turkey, and the Gluhite Kamani Project in Bulgaria. She has been a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the American Academy in Rome, the National Humanities Center, and a Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford, and she has received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Loeb Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society. Her book, In Search of God the Mother: the Cult of Anatolian Kybele won the Wiseman Prize for outstanding scholarly publication in the field of Mediterranean archaeology from the Archaeological Institute of America in 2002.
Barbara Roth is Professor and Chair in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Arizona. She has done fieldwork in the Southwest US, Mojave Desert, and France. Her research has focused on the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, the social changes (household organization, gender roles) that occurred as groups became more sedentary and agriculturally dependent, and the role of ritual in community integration in the Mimbres Mogollon region of southwestern New Mexico. She has directed excavations at several pithouse sites and a large Classic period pueblo in the Mimbres region. She has recently been doing work in the Mojave Desert examining past hunter-gatherer land use.
Matthew A. Sears is a historian of ancient Greece and Rome, specializing in military monuments and commemoration, war and society, and ancient historiography. He publishes widely on Greek and Roman politics, society, and culture, and has bylines in The Washington Post, The Globe & Mail, Maclean’s, and Time Magazine. He holds a PhD in Classics from Cornell University
