Founder and Director: Prof. Alice König
Advisory Board
- Prof. Lucy Grig, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh;
(Late antiquity, early Christianity, popular history, literary and material culture). - Dr Roxani Krystalli, Peacebuilding Practitioner and Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, in the School of International Relations; (feminist peace, peacebuilding and place).
- Prof. Roger Mac Ginty, Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, University of Durham; (bottom-up and hybrid peacebuilding, co-founder and director of the Everyday Peace Indicators project).
- Prof. Oliver Richmond, Research Professor, Department of Politics, University of Manchester;
(peace and conflict Studies, ‘peaceart’/art of peace, peace formation). - Dr Nicolas Wiater, Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews;
(co-founder of the Visualising War research project, Hellenistic Greece and early Imperial Rome, ancient borders). - Prof. Greg Woolf, Leon Levy Director at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) at NYU; (power and culture in the Roman world).
APSN members
- Prof. Zainab Bahrani, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, NY.
- Dr Susanne Bickel, University of Basel, Departement of Ancient Civilizations: Egyptology.
- Dr Sarah Bolmarcich, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University;
(ancient Greek international relations and diplomacy). - Dr Ari Z. Bryen, Department of History, Vanderbilt College of Arts and Science;
(violence and peacebuilding in Greco-Roman Egypt and the wider Roman empire). - Dr Lydia Cole, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex;
(critical peace and conflict studies, feminist international relations, peace museums, the art of peace). - Dr Hannah Cornwell, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, Birmingham University; (Roman empire, Pax Augusta, socio-political history of power).
- Dr Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University;
(counter-factual thinking in ancient historiography, peace histories). - Dr Martin Dinter, Department of Classics, King’s College London;
(Conflict Resolution through Classical Literature, Latin literature, cultural memory). - Dr. Ronald Forero Álvarez, Departamento de Lingüística, Literatura y Filología, Universidad de La Sabana; (Irene Project, Conflict Resolution through Classical Literature, archaic Greek literature, papyrology, Classical reception, pedagogy).
- Dr Benjamin Gray, School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck, University of London; (Greek political and ethical thought, ancient refugee and exile experiences, reconciliation).
- Dr Emily Hauser, Centre for Classical Reception, University of Exeter; (ancient gender, narrative and authorship, Classical Reception studies).
- Prof. John Hyland, Department of History, Christopher Newport University; (Achaemenid Persia, Classical Greece, ancient warfare, imperialism and conflict resolution).
- Prof. Elena Isayev, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter; (Migration, Displacement, History, Asylum, Refugees, Hospitality, Place/Space).
- Dr Rhyne King, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto; (Achaemenid Persia, comparative approaches to Greek historiographical sources and documentary evidence in Akkadian, Elamite, and Aramaic).
- Prof. Genevieve Lively, Professor of Classics and Director of the Research Institute for Sociotechnical Cyber Security, University of Bristol; (narratology, futures thinking).
- Prof. Polly Low, Department of Classics and Archaeology, Durham University; (ancient Greek interstate relations, war memorialisation).
- Dr Kenneth Mavor, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews; (personal and social self-identities, crowd psychology, conflict and reconciliation).
- Dr Jaremey McMullin, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews; (youth peacebuilding in Liberia, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants in Namibia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the United States, veteran identities and politics).
- Dr Frank Möller, Hub for the Study of Hybrid Communication in Peacebuilding; (peace photography, visual peacebuilding, arts-based conflict resolution, mediation, peace pedagogies).
- Dr Jake Nabel, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Penn State; (interstate relations between Rome and the empires of pre-Islamic Iran, ancient slavery).
- Dr Ellen O’Gorman, University of Bristol; (Roman historiography, peace and the Roman principate).
- Prof. Carlos Renato Rosário de Jesús, Universidade do Estado do Amazonas; (Irene Project).
- Dr Seth Richardson, Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (West Asia & North Africa), University of Chicago; (ancient near East, Mesopotamia, war and peace).
- Dr Joseph Scales, Department of Religion, Philosophy and History, University of Agder; (violence in ancient Judaism, relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish conflict narratives).
- Prof. Solon Simmons, director of The Narrative Transformation Lab, George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution; (conflict resolution, narrative, storytelling for positive change).
- Dr Rebecca Sutton, School of Law, University of Glasgow; (International Humanitarian Law, mediation, peacebuilding, conflict transformation, peace gaming).
- Dr Wai Kit Wicky Tse, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; (military and social history of China, 3rd c. BCE – 6th c. CE; the intersection of violence, frontiers, identity and culture).
- Dr Julia Wilker, Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania;
(Hellenistic and Roman Near East, esp. Judea; elite-non-elite relations). - Audrey Williams, lab manager of The Narrative Transformation Lab, George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution; (narrative and musical craft in conflict resolution).
IT support
Mary Woodcock Kroble