**About the Editors**

### **Elena Isayev**

Elena Isayev's work focuses on historical and current migration, hospitality, displacement and group membership, which she has explored in *Migration Mobility and Place in Ancient Italy* (Cambridge 2017), in various other publications including the Red Cross (2017), and as co-editor of *Mobility in Antiquity* (Routledge, forthcoming). Key strands in her research include place as an intersection of mobilities; hospitality, reciprocity and interdependence; bodies out of place; common and public space. This research draws on work with colleagues in diverse contexts, including Guest Professor at the University of Potsdam (DAAD), and at the University of Pennsylvania in Classical Studies and Ancient History; as Davis Fellow in History (University of Princeton); with Campus in Camps and Decolonizing Architecture in Palestine; as part of a UNDRR/ICCROM expert panel on indigenous knowledge systems; as Principal Investigator leading the team of *Imagining Futures through Un/Archived Pasts* (AHRC, UKRI-GCRF funded 4-year project); as co-creator of AlMaisha (with Diego Segatto and Isshaq Al-Barbary)—a communal learning platform tackling urgencies of displacement and citizenship beyond the state; as co-founder of ROUTES (with Nick Gill, Ben Hudson and Helena Wray)—a research centre at Exeter focusing on Migration, Mobility and Displacement; as co-investigator of *Knowledges in Transit* with Staffan Muller-Wille. She teaches ¨ on themes in ancient history, material culture and mobilities at the University of Exeter (UK), as Professor of Ancient History and Place.

#### **Evan Jewell**

Dr. Evan Jewell is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, Camden. He is currently writing a monograph, *Youth and Power: Acting Your Age in the Roman Empire (149 BCE–68 CE)*. His published and forthcoming work has focused on Roman oratory and exemplarity, Roman colonization and displacement, the emperor Nero, Roman subaltern space and wayfinding, and concepts of Roman youth. He is currently co-editor of the forthcoming volume *Mobility in Antiquity: Rethinking the Ancient World through Movement* (Routledge). He was the 2022–2023 recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Rome Prize in Ancient Studies at the American Academy in Rome and a 2023 Getty Research Institute Library Grant.
