Notes on Contributors xiiiAsia Minor, and the economy of the Greek
and Roman world. He is the author of
Regionalism and Change in the Economy
of Independent Delos, more than 50 arti-
cles and book chapters on these topics,
and co-editor of two volumes of essays on
regionalism and Greek epigraphy.
Ursula RotheisBaronThyssenLecturer
in Classical Studies at the Open Univer-
sity. She has previously worked as project
manager of the EU projectDressID: Cloth-
ing and Identities in the Roman Empire,
based at the Reiss Engelhorn Museums
in Mannheim, Germany, and as lecturer
and Leverhulme postdoctoral fellow in
classics at the University of Edinburgh.
She specializes in Roman dress, cultural
theory, and the social history of Rome’s
western provinces. Her recent publications
includeDress and Cultural Identity in the
Rhine-Moselle Region of the Roman Empire
(2009) and “The ‘Third Way’: Treveran
women’s dress and the ‘Gallic Ensem-
ble’.” American Journal of Archaeology,
116: 235–52.
James Roywas, until retirement, reader in
Greek history at the University of Notting-
ham, where he is still a research associate.
He has written numerous articles, confer-
ence papers, and book chapters on Greek
history, including several on the history of
Arkadia and of Elis. He has co-edited, with
T. H. Nielsen,Defining Ancient Arkadia
(The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
and Letters, 1999); with C. Adams,Travel,
Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece
andtheNearEast(Oxford 2007); and with
H. Cavanagh and W. G. Cavanagh,Hon-
ouring the Dead in the Peloponnese(Cen-
tre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies
of the University of Nottingham [online]
2011).
Jörg Rüpkehas been, since 1999, profes-
sor of classical philology and comparative
religion at the University of Erfurt, where
since 2008 he has also been a fellow in
religious studies at the Max Weber Cen-
tre. He is the author of several books on
Roman religion, and in 2008 was the recip-
ient of the Gay Lussac-Humboldt Prize for
his research in that area.Brent D. Shaw is the Andrew Flem-
ing West Professor of Classics at Prince-
ton University. One of his principal areas
of research has been the Maghrib in the
Roman period, but he has also ventured
into the field of family history and into the
problem of violence in the Roman Empire.
His recent publications include—as one
of the co-authors—the global history text
Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(third edi-
tion, New York, Norton, 2011) and the
monographSacred Violence: African Chris-
tians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age
of Augustine(Cambridge University Press
2011).Johannes Siapkasis associate professor in
classical archaeology and ancient history,
Uppsala University, Sweden. His research
focuses on the epistemological foundations
of classical studies, and modern appropria-
tions of classical antiquity.Stuart Tyson Smith is professor and
chair of anthropology at the Univer-
sity of California, Santa Barbara. His
research focuses on the dynamics of cul-
tural interaction, ethnicity and other axes
of identity, ceramics and foodways, legit-
imization and ideology, sealing and admin-
istration, funerary practice, and the social
and economic dynamics of ancient Nilotic
civilizations.Alexander Theinis a lecturer in the School
of Classics, University College Dublin.
He has published on the history of Late
Republican Rome and the topography of