Tristan Bradshaw is a political theorist and classicist whose research is concerned with radical democratic theories and driven by the methods of Critical Antiquities. Since 2022, he has lectured on social and political thought in the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong. Before that, he lectured at the University of Sydney, where he also enjoyed a year as Research Fellow in Classics and Ancient History and is now affiliated as an Honorary Associate. He earned his PhD from Northwestern University, Illinois, in 2021 with a dissertation on use and utility in Aristotle and Marx.

Ben Brown is a historian of early Greek thought and literature. He studied with David Phillips and Edwin Judge at Macquarie University where he obtained his PhD. Ben has taught Greek and Roman language and history at Macquarie, ACU, UNSW before joining Classics and Ancient History at University of Sydney where he is Senior Lecturer in Classics. Ben is the author of The Mirror of Epic (2016) and is currently working on a monograph, Figures of Autonomy in Early Greece.

Tom Geue teaches Classical Studies at the Australian National University. His interests range from the mysteries of anonymous writing in the ancient world, including the books Author Unknown: The Power of Anonymity in Ancient Rome (2019) and Juvenal and the Poetics of Anonymity (2017), to Marxist criticism on classical Latin poetry, to the space shared between classical philology and socialist politics in the 20^th century (Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro). His work has been recognised with the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2021) and an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2023).

Andy Poe is a political theorist with research interests in democratic theory, continental philosophy, forms of protest, political violence, and law and society. He is the author, most recently, of Political Enthusiasm: Partisan Feeling and Democracy’s Enchantments (2022). His current research explores the philosophy of abolitionism, considering the example of police in democracies. In addition to his current work at Australian Catholic University, he has taught political theory at Amherst College, the University of California, and the University of Copenhagen. Andy has held visiting positions and research fellowships at the Institut für Sozialforschung and the Institut für Philosophie at the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Divinity School at Harvard University, the Center for 17^th and 18^th Century Studies at UCLA, and the Centre for Anthropological, Political, and Social Theory at the University of Copenhagen. Andy is also currently an affiliate of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney. 

Michèle Lowrie is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. In addition to earlier books and edited volumes on Horace, Augustan Rome, Vergil reception, figures of thought, and exemplarity, she has more recently published Civil War and the Collapse of the Social Bond (Cambridge 2022) together with Barbara Vinken and is finalizing The Invention of Security in Early Imperial Rome, also for Cambridge. She has held numerous residential fellowships in Princeton, England, and Germany, received a Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and given the Gray Lectures at Cambridge.

Dinesh Wadiwel is a political theorist and Associate Professor in human rights and socio-legal studies at University of Sydney. He is author of Animals and Capital (Edinburgh UP, 2023), The War against Animals (Brill, 2015) and is co-editor, with Matthew Chrulew of Foucault and Animals (Brill 2017). Dinesh was part of a team of researchers who produced two reports - in 2022 and 2023 - for the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability.  He has a background working within civil society organisations, including in anti-poverty and disability rights roles.

Cinzia Arruzza is the Maria Stata Professor of Classical Greek Studies at Boston University. Before joining Boston University, she taught at the New School for Social Research in NYC from 2010 to 2024. She also held visiting positions at her alma mater – University of Rome Tor Vergata –, at the University of Piemonte Orientale, and at the University of Rome La Sapienza. She has been the recipient of two Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowships, both at the University of Bonn. She has authored books in the history of ancient philosophy (A Wolf in the City. Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic, OUP 2018; Plotinus. Ennead II 5. On What is Potentially and What Actually, Parmenides Press 2015; Les Mésaventures de la théodicée. Plotin, Origène et Grégoire de Nysse, Brepols 2011) and in feminist theory (with Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser, Feminism for the 99%. A Manifesto, Verso, 2019; with Lidia Cirillo, Storia delle storie del femminismo, Edizioni Alegre 2017; Dangerous Liaisons, Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism, The Merlin Press 2013). She is currently working on a new book manuscript titled Socrates’ Women. Virtue, the Soul and Sexual Difference in the Socratic Circle and Plato’s Dialogues (under contract with OUP) and a French translation with Introduction and Commentary of Plotinus’ Ennead III 6.