Elected 2026
Dr. Alex A. Antoniou is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is currently a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow. His research focuses broadly on the religious, cultural and social history of Rome and the provinces. He is the author of Roman Priests from Republic to Empire: Values, Expectations, Representations (OUP 2025), and co-editor of The Roman Censorship: Perceptions and Realities (De Gruyter, forthcoming 2026). He is currently working on a number of projects, including a sourcebook on the period between the Republic to the Empire (contracted with Routledge), and on the phenomenon of emperor worship in Roman Italy.
Erica Rowan is an Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of History and Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on ancient consumption practices, the evolution of food identities and cultures, sensory experiences, and biofuels, particularly in the Roman period. She has published extensively on non-elite diet and on the use of olive oil pressing waste as an important fuel source in the ancient Mediterranean. Erica was the co-director of the AHRC SOFRA project (2021-2023) that looked at ancient and traditional foodways in Manisa province https://sofra.ku.edu.tr/. She is currently co-director of the British Council funded project Sustainable Ethical Cattle from Antiquity to the Anthropocene and recently completed an ANAMED senior research fellowship in Istanbul. She is the archaeobotanical specialist on the Aphrodisias, Sardis (Türkiye), Villa of Titus, and Falerii Novi (Italy) excavations. Her forthcoming co-authored book (Luke and Rowan), Foraging for Nostalgia: From Ancient Anatolian Ruins to Michelin Stars, explores the role nostalgia for past foodways has played in shaping contemporary consumption practices in Western Türkiye.
Christopher Whitton is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Emmanuel College. He works on imperial prose literature, with particular interests in style, intertextuality and the intersection of literature and history. His publications include a ‘green and yellow’ commentary on Pliny Epistles 2, The Arts of Imitation in Latin Prose: Pliny’s Epistles/Quintilian in Brief, Roman Literature under Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian: Literary Interactions, ad 96–138 (co-edited with Alice König) and The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature (co-edited with Roy Gibson). His principal projects at the moment are a commentary on Tacitus Annals 14 and a book on Pliny/Tacitus intertextuality. He enjoys addressing wider audiences and has made several lecture courses for the Massolit website.
Elected June 2025
Dr Dalida (Lili) Agri teaches Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She works on the literature, philosophy, and culture of ancient Greek and Roman societies, with a particular focus on how emotion, ethics, gender, and politics intersect. Her research often draws connections between ancient thought and questions that remain pressing today. Recent publications include Reading Fear in Flavian Epic: Emotion, Power, and Stoicism (Oxford University Press, 2022) and “The Clothing Metaphor in Roman Depictions of Emotion” (2024, open access). She is currently co-editing an interdisciplinary volume on Gender and Emotion in the Ancient World with Professor Giulia Sissa, and preparing a commentary on Book 5 of Silius Italicus’ Punica.
Martin Beddoe read Classics and Law at Cambridge in the 1970s. After a career at the criminal bar followed by 15 years as a Circuit Judge in London, he retired in 2022 to return to Classics. He completed a Masters in 2024 at KCL where he is now undertaking a PhD in Roman Archaeology.
Kim Drummond is Head of Classics and Latin at St Edmund’s School in Hindhead, an independent school in Surrey. In addition to leading the department, she teaches GCSE Classical Civilisation and Latin, and runs co-curricular clubs and workshops designed to enrich and extend students’ engagement with the ancient world. Kim also organises annual study tours to major classical sites, including Rome, Pompeii, Athens, Olympia, and Sparta. Prior to joining St Edmund’s, Kim was a Classics lecturer at Chichester College, where she taught both A Level students and adults. During this time, she designed and delivered two original adult education courses on Ancient Rome, accompanied by study visits to Rome, Pompeii, and Tunisia. Kim came to Classics teaching following a 23-year career in the Royal Navy. Her academic interests focus on Roman architecture and urban topography; her Master’s dissertation examined the Colossus of Nero within the framework of the continuity versus break hypothesis.
Dr Kelsey Shawn Madden is a Roman archaeologist and an Early Career Research Associate at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Kelsey’s interdisciplinary work combines history, archaeology, and art history, employing feminist, queer, postcolonial, and new materialist theories. She specialises in enslavement, gender, and childhood in the first and second centuries CE, as well as Roman funerary practices and urbanism.
Kelsey has extensive experience managing archaeological projects in the UK and Italy. Currently, she is the fieldwork supervisor and collaborative researcher for the British School at Rome on the Falerii Novi Project. Additionally, she is co-editor of the volume Sexual Effects: Mapping Intersections of Sexuality and Imperialism in the Roman World, to be published by Bloomsbury Publishing in winter 2025.
Dr Martha Stewart is Executive Assistant to the Dean of Durham Cathedral. She read Classics Mods and Ancient & Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford, and was recently awarded a PhD in Roman Archaeology from Durham University. She holds an honorary research fellowship at Durham, and plans to continue researching and writing in the history of archaeology. Her first monograph, on Eric Birley and his legacy to Roman Frontier Studies, will be published by Archaeopress in 2026.
Elected June 2024
Dr Victoria Leonard is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University. She joined the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, as a Research Associate in 2017, and became a Research Fellow in 2020. Victoria’s research focuses on the Roman and Late Roman western Mediterranean, with a special interest in historiography, ancient religion, and gender, sexuality, violence, and theories of the body in antiquity. She is the author of In Defiance of History: Orosius and the Unimproved Past (2022) and co-editor of Bodily Fluids in Antiquity (2021). Her media work includes writing for The Guardian and The Times Higher Education, and she has contributed to BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking.
Dr Luke Houghton is Lecturer in Latin at the University of Edinburgh. His research concentrates primarily on the reception of Roman poetry in later art and literature, especially during the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance. He is the author of Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance (2019) and has co-edited four volumes: Perceptions of Horace (with Maria Wyke, 2009), Neo-Latin Poetry in the British Isles (with Gesine Manuwald, 2012), Virgil and Renaissance Culture (with Marco Sgarbi, 2018), and An Anthology of British Neo-Latin Literature (with Gesine Manuwald and Lucy Nicholas, 2020). He is editor of Proceedings of the Virgil Society, and his translation of Marco Girolamo Vida’s influential sixteenth-century Latin epic, the Christiad, is in preparation for the Oxford World’s Classics series.
Dr Adam Rogers is an academic at the University of Leicester that specialises in Roman archaeology. His research and teaching focuses particularly on the Roman West and Britain in the Roman era. He also has interests in urbanism and settlement in the Roman period, landscapes, materiality and hoards, historiography and archaeological theory. He has published a number of books on his research including Late Roman Towns in Britain: Rethinking Change and Decline (Cambridge University Press 2011), Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain (Brill 2013), The Archaeology of Roman Britain: Biography and Identity (Routledge 2015), Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain (co-authored, Oxbow Books 2020) and Roman Towns (Amberley 2023).
James King-Smith is a retired barrister who read Literae Humaniores at St. John's College, Oxford, matriculating in 1973. James' special subject in Latin literature was the poet Horace and he is currently a member of the Horatian Society.
Micaela Langellotti is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newcastle University. Her research focuses on the social, cultural and economy history of Egypt under Roman rule. She is the author of Village Life in Roman Egypt. Tebtunis in the First Century AD (OUP 2020) and the co-editor of Village Institutions in Egypt in the Roman to the Early Arab period (with D.W. Rathbone, OUP 2020). She is currently preparing the first edition of an archive of Greek documents written on papyrus which were produced at a local notary office in the Roman Fayum, Egypt. She is on the editorial board of the book series Pragmateiai, Edipuglia, specialising in the socio-economic history of the ancient world.
Bruce Gibson is Professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool. His research interests include praise oratory, the Latin poetry of the early empire (especially Statius) and Greek and Roman historiography. His publications include Statius, Silvae 5. Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary (Oxford 2006), Polybius and his World (jointly edited with Thomas Harrison, Oxford 2013) and Pliny the Younger in Late Antiquity (a special issue of Arethusa jointly edited with Roger Rees, 2013). He has also served as an Editor of Classical Quarterly from 2011 to 2025. He is currently working on a commentary on Pliny’s Pangegyricus and completing a volume co-edited with Roger Rees on Praising Constantine.