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Rebecca Sweetman Editor & Author

Carlos Machado is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of St Andrews (UK). He has published extensively on late antique history and material culture, including Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome (2019), and co-edited Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome (2023).

Rowan Munnery is a doctoral candidate at the University of St Andrews (UK). He focuses on utilising quantitative and network approaches in maritime archaeology to examine the maritime cultural landscape of the late antique western Mediterranean. His research interests also include the phenomenology of space aboard ships and behavioural economics in the ancient world.

Rebecca Sweetman is Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of St Andrews (UK). She has published widely on the archaeology of Greece in the Roman and Late Antique periods, including The Mosaics of Roman Crete: Art, Archaeology and Social Change (2013). She is particularly interested in religious spaces, mobility and network analysis.