Migration and Migrant Identities in the Near East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

About

Justin Yoo is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Classics at King’s College London, UK, where he is writing a thesis on Greek migration, trade, and interaction with Egypt during the seventh to fourth centuries BCE. He has an MA in Egyptian Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK, and a BA in Anthropology, Arabic and French from the City University of New York, USA.

Andrea Zerbini is a Research Associate on the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) project based at the University of Oxford, UK. Prior to this, he held a CBRL Visiting Fellowship at the British Institute in Amman, Jordan, and a Fondation Fyssen Postdoctoral Fellowship affiliated with the CNRS team Archéologies et Sciences de l’Antiquité based at the Université Paris X–Nanterre, France. He holds an MA in Ancient History from University College London and a PhD in Classics from Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. From May 2018, he has assumed the role of Assistant Director of CBRL–The British Institute in Amman.

Caroline Barron is a Research Fellow on the ERC-funded project Judaism and Rome (http://judaism-and-rome.cnrs.fr/), based at CNRS at the Aix-Marseille Université, France. She earned her undergraduate degree in English and Latin at the University of Leeds, UK, and then spent several years living in Rome and working in cultural heritage. She returned to London in 2008 to pursue an MA in Classics at King's College London, UK, after which she earned her PhD, also at King’s, in 2015 under the supervision of Professor Henrik Mouritsen. Caroline has most recently worked on the publication of two digital editions of ancient inscriptions: Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, and IOSPE: Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea. In January 2019 she will join Birkbeck, UK, as a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow.