Credits
Christopher Johanson
Associate Professor in the UCLA Department of Classics, founding faculty and former chair of the UCLA Digital Humanities Program, and Director, Innovative Applications and Creative Activity, UCLA DataX. He also directs RomeLab.
Anna Accettola
Anna Accettola is an independent scholar and previously held positions in the Classics Departments at Hamilton College and Bucknell University. She received her PhD from the History Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2021. Her research uses inscriptions, numismatics, and material culture broadly to analyze the many ways that identities are formed, negotiated, and overlooked during cross-cultural interactions in economic, religious, and political spaces. She is also a specialist in inter-state connections, particularly those of the Nabataean Kingdom and its engagement with Greco-Roman polities from the third to first centuries BCE.
Alison Crandall
Alison Crandall is the Lab Manager of the Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program (YAPP) at the Yale Peabody Museum. She has held positions as an analytical chemist in various laboratories, including Alpha Analytical and Cambrex Corporation. Previously, she received her MA in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (2015) and a BA in Chemistry and Classical Studies (2013) from Brandeis University. Her research with YAPP investigates the components of ancient commodities and medicines by analyzing organic residues from archaeological objects. The YAPP team utilizes this in conjunction with ethnographic and other technological approaches to examine the sourcing, production, exchange, and consumption of goods - and the effects these activities had on ancient cultures and ecologies.
Benjamin Niedzielski
Benjamin Niedzielski is a Senior Application Developer at UC Davis. He holds MAs in Indo-European Studies (2020, UCLA) and Classics (2014, University of Kansas), as well as an Sc.B. with concentrations in Mathematics-Computer Science and Classics (2012, Brown University). He enjoys combining his experience in computational and humanistic fields, with previous projects including topic modeling of autobiographical texts and computational phylogenetics for language family trees.
Marie Saldaña
Marie Saldaña is an assistant professor of cultural heritage informatics in the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona. She is the project director of Taming the Wild Horse Desert a data curation and mapping project that documents the people, places, built environment, and stories of South Texas during the 17th – 19th centuries.