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Roger S. Bagnall is Professor of Ancient History and Leon Levy Director at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, and director of the Amheida excavations. His recent books include Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East and (as co-editor) the Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
Nicola Aravecchia is Research Affiliate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, and field director of the ʿAin el-Gedida archaeological mission as well as Deputy Field Director of the Amheida excavations, where he leads work on the church. His final report on the archaeological excavations at ʿAin el-Gedida is forthcoming.
Raffaella Cribiore is Professor of Classics at New York University. She is a specialist in ancient education, a papyrologist (mostly literary), and is also very interested in Greek rhetoric, especially in late antiquity. She has published five books: Writing: Teachers and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (Atlanta, 1996); Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt (Princeton 2001); Women's Letters in Ancient Egypt: 300 BC–AD 800 (Ann Arbor 2006, coauthored with R. S. Bagnall); The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (Princeton 2007); Libanius the Sophist: Rhetoric, Reality and Religion in the Fourth Century (Cornell 2013). Another book, Between City and School: Selected Orations of Libanius is forthcoming as part of Translated Texts for Historians.
Paola Davoli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of the Salento, Lecce, and archaeological director of Amheida excavations. She has more than 20 years of field experience in archaeology in Egypt, and she is currently the co-director of Soknopaiou Nesos Project (Fayyum).
Olaf E. Kaper is Professor of Egyptology at Leiden University and Adjunct Research Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne. He is senior investigator of the Dakhleh Oasis Project, directed by A. J. Mills, since 1988, and Associate Director for Egyptology of the excavations at Amheida since 2004.
Susanna McFadden is Assistant Professor of Art History at Fordham University. Her most recent publications include an article on late antique wall paintings in Rome in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (vol. 58), and a book (as co-editor) on the late Roman wall paintings in Luxor Temple entitled, Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple.