Donatella Erdas is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Milan. Her research interests include the institutional and economic history of the Greek world, the history and epigraphy of Greek colonial contexts, fragmentary Greek historiography, and the political works of Aristotle. She is author of Cratero il Macedone. Testimonianze e frammenti (2002) and, together with C. Ampolo, of Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (2019). She is currently working on land distribution in Greek poleis.

Michele Faraguna is Professor of Greek History at the University of Milan. His main research interests revolve around Greek political, administrative, economic, and legal history from the Archaic age to early Hellenism. He is the author of Atene nell’età di Alessandro. Problemi politici, economici, finanziari (1992) and, together with L. Boffo, of Le poleis e i loro archivi. Studi su pratiche documentarie, istituzioni, società nell’antichità greca (2021). He has been P.I. of the project “‘Sharing in the Polis’: Citizenship and Society in the Greek World (7th–2nd century BC)”.

Davide Amendola is tenure-track Assistant Professor of Greek History at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples. He earned his PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, where he also held postdoctoral positions, and has received fellowships at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and Trinity College Dublin. His research focuses on Greek political and institutional history, historiography, and epigraphy.

Matteo Barbato is a researcher focusing on the cultural, political and institutional history of Athenian democracy and on post-classical Greek historiography. He is the author of The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (EUP, 2020) and co-editor of Rediscovering Greek Institutions: New Institutionalist Approaches to Ancient Greek History (EUP, 2025).

Josine Blok is Professor Emeritus in Ancient History and Classical Civilization at Utrecht University, a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, and chair of the European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History. Her research focuses on the history of archaic and classical Greece, with a special interest in ancient and modern citizenship. Recent monographs are Citizenship in classical Athens (2017) and, with Irad Malkin, Drawing lots: from egalitarianism to democracy in ancient Greece (2024).

Mirko Canevaro is Professor of Greek History at the University of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and member of the Academia Europaea. His work has addressed various aspects of the institutions, law, social history, and political thought of the Greek city-states, and of Athens in particular, often in dialogue with modernity. He has published in monograph form The Documents in the Attic Orators (2013), Demostene, Contro Leptine. Introduzione, traduzione e commento storico (2016), commentaries on Book IV (2014) and Books VII–VIII (2022) of Aristotle’s Politics, and L’Atene dei diritti (2026).

Cristina Carusi is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Parma. She has held fellowships and research appointments at the Italian Archaeological School in Athens, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C., the University of Texas at Austin, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Her research focuses on Greek history and epigraphy, particularly the institutions, law, and economy of Greek city-states.

Giacinto Falco is a postdoctoral researcher at the Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica. He received his PhD in Classics from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. His research focuses on the legal, social, economic, and cultural history of ancient Greece, with particular attention to Athenian law, citizenship, economic practices, and symbolic aspects of consumption. He is the author of a monograph on Ps.-Demosthenes and has published in leading journals.

Stefano Ferrucci is Full Professor of Greek History at the University of Siena. His primary research interests lie in the political, economic, and social history of the Greek world, with a particular emphasis on Athenian democracy (L'Atene di Iseo, ETS, Pisa 1998; La democrazia diseguale, ETS, Pisa 2013; Democrazia, Inshibboleth, Roma 2022). Within this research domain, he has also focused on the study of women and slaves. His academic contributions include extensive research in the domain of Attic forensic oratory, historiography, and Greek rhetoric. He is the editor of Plutarch's Life of Artaxerxes (BUR, Milano 2020, with an Introduction and Notes on the text) and is currently working on an edition of Aristotle's Athēnaiōn Politeia.

Jakub Filonik is Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He has published on Greek oratory, Athenian democracy, political thought, and citizenship. He co-edited Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean (2023) and authored papers on μετέχειν, freedom, civic identity, and participation in Greek political culture. He is finalising books on freedom in Athenian oratory and the concept of ‘sharing in the polis’.

Elena Franchi is a Full Professor of Greek History at the University of Trento. She was granted a postdoctoral fellowship (Freiburg i. Breisgau, 2011-2013) and a Europe-fellowship (2012) of the A. Von Humboldt Stiftung. In 2022, she was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant with the project “FeBo: Federalism and Border Management in Greek Antiquity”. Her research interests include border wars, with a particular focus on Argos and the Phokians, and ancient Greek federalism. She is currently working on border management cultures in Ancient Greece.

Laura Loddo is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Greek History at the University of Pisa. Her primary research interests encompass Greek political and legal history, as well as the history of exile and ancient refugees. She is the author of Solon demotikotatos: il legislatore e il politico nella cultura democratica ateniese (Milano, 2018) and I rifugiati politici nella Grecia antica (Bologna, 2022). Additionally, she edited the volume Political Refugees in the Ancient Greek World: Literary, Historical and Philosophical Essays (Toulouse, 2020).

Irad Malkin is the Israel Prize Laureate for History for 2014. He is a Professor emeritus of Greek history at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece (1987); Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean (1994); The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity (1998); Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Greece (2003); A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (2011). Greeks Drawing Lots: From Egalitarianism to Democracy (with Josine Blok), accompanied by https://kleros.org.il/, a comprehensive database for the vocabulary of drawing lots.

Christel Müller is Professor of Greek History at Paris Nanterre University and a former Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She has extensively published on civic institutions, including D’Olbia à Tanaïs: Territoires et réseaux d’échanges dans la Mer Noire septentrionale aux époques classique et hellénistique (2010) and La fabrique du citoyen. Les Grecs et la politeia d’Aristote à Auguste (2026). She is currently editing for CUP, with M. Giangiulio, a volume on Ancient Greek Oligarchies.

Elisabetta Poddighe teaches Greek History at the University of Cagliari. Her research focuses on Athenian democracy and Aristotle’s political thought. Her publications include Aristotele, Atene e le metamorfosi dell'idea democratica (2014), Aristotele e il synoran (2020), Athenaion Politeiai tra storia, politica e sociologia (co-ed., 2018), and Politeia in Aristotle’s Political Theory and Historical Research (co-ed., 2022).

Emilio Rosamilia is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek History at the Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna. He was previously Junior Assistant Professor at the University of Perugia and held fellowships at international research institutions. Since 2012, he has been a member of the Italian Archaeological Mission to Cyrene (Libya) and has published numerous contributions on the inscriptions from this site, examining them from political, institutional, economic, and social perspectives.

Federico Russo is an Associate Professor of Roman History at the University of Milan. He graduated at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he also obtained his doctorat. He was visiting scholar at the Universities of Oxford and Liège, and later research fellow at the Universities of Konstanz and Vienna. Among his most recent monographs: Suffragium. Magistrati, popolo e decurioni nei meccanismi elettorali della Baetica romana (Milano 2019); Studi su Tacito e le istituzioni di Roma repubblicana (Macerata 2026).

Matt Simonton is Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research focuses on Greek political and social history and has been supported by grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Hellenic Studies, and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. His most recent book is Ancient Greek Democracies (Key Themes in Ancient History, Cambridge University Press).

Andreas Victor Walser is Professor of the History of Ancient Cultures from the Eastern Mediterranean to the Middle East, Department of History, University of Zurich. His research focuses on Greek and Hellenistic history, social and economic history, ancient Greek law, Greek epigraphy, in particular the inscriptions from Pergamon, and the reception of antiquity in the modern era. Among his main publication, he has authored Bauern und Zinsnehmer. Politik, Recht und Wirtschaft im frühhellenistischen Ephesos (2008) and, recently, a number of chapters on the economy and society of Asia Minor, and coedited, together with Ch. Riedweg and R. Schmid, Demokratie und Populismus in der griechischen Antike und heute (2024).