Ardy Bass is a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University. She received her B.A. in Theology from Seattle University, her M.A. in Religious Studies from Gonzaga University and Ph.D. in Theology from Marquette University. Her teaching experience began at Marquette University; she has also taught courses in Religious Studies at Willamette University and Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology at Gonzaga University and Eastern Washington University. She has taught Women's Studies courses at Marquette University (Women in the Bible) and at Gonzaga University (A Feminist Introduction to the New Testament; Women in Antiquity).

Since 2002 she has co-chaired the Women and Religion Section of the Pacific Northwest Regional Group of the American Academy of Religion, Society of Biblical Literature and American Schools of Oriental Research. She currently serves on the Executive Committee for this regional organization.

Bass’ research in Greek and Roman Religion led to participation in a NEH Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome in 2008 on Identity and Self-Representation in the Subcultures of Ancient Rome.  Her current research focuses on images of men and women dressed as Isis on funerary reliefs in the Roman period.

Andy Goldman earned his PhD in Classical Archaeology in 2000 from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He has taught courses in Greek and Roman archaeology, ancient history, and the classical languages at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey), the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, and, since 2002, Gonzaga University. He is an Associate Professor in Gonzaga’s History Dept. and chair of the university’s Classical Civilizations Department. His major teaching and research fields are Greek and Roman history and ancient material culture.

Since arriving in Spokane in 2002, Dr. Goldman has worked closely with university and public organizations in this region to heighten awareness of the humanistic legacy of the ancient world and the need to understand and preserve its unique heritage. In 2005, he began the Archaeology and Ancient History Lecture Series (AAHLS) at Gonzaga to bring national and international lecturers on topics of ancient civilization to the Spokane region. He has also served for 5 years on the board and is current president of the Spokane Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), in which capacity he oversees the AIA’s annual public lecture series held at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. He is active on committees of several national and international organizations, including the AIA, the American Research Institute in Turkey, and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Since 1992, he has been a member of the Gordion Excavation team and is currently publishing material excavated at that central Anatolian site belonging to the Roman-period fort that existed there between the first and fifth centuries AD.

Thomas Hines is a Professor of Theatre at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. In addition to serving as Department Chair, Hines is the developer and editor of The Ancient Theatre Archive: An Internet resource for theatre history and architecture studies.
The project was conceived as an online, encyclopedic survey of representative ancient Greek and Roman theatres, and combines maps, photographs, data charts, and historic commentaries with viewer-controlled panoramic views of ancient theatre sites. Hines’ research and photographic expeditions to Turkey, Greece, Spain, Portugal, France, Egypt, and Italy have produced over fourteen thousand high-resolution photographs of seventy-two Greek and Roman theatres. The project website can be found at:
<http://www.whitman.edu/theatre/theatretour/home.htm>

Recent presentations on ancient theatre architecture include lectures at The Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, The American University in Cairo, and The University of Lisbon. In his capacity as the USITT Vice-Commissioner for Computer Applications, Hines has lectured frequently on digital imaging and archival practices. Hines is the recipient of two Sally Ann Abshire Research Scholar Awards and a Perry Research Scholarship Grant. His research has benefited from a United States Institute for Technology Grant, a CwTI Rockefeller Grant, and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.

C. W. Marshall is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University of British Columbia. In Vancouver. His research focuses on performance and stagecraft, with articles on Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Menander, Plautus, and Seneca. He is the author of The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (Cambridge, 2006). He has also co-edited books on the television series Battlestar Galactica and The Wire (both with Tiffany Potter), and a forthcoming volume on Classics and Comics (with George Kovacs).

Prof. Marshall has directed a dozen ancient plays, including such memorable classics as Asinaria, Children of Heracles, and Women of Trachis. More recently, he has directed the Canadian premiere of Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (2009), and this summer will direct a world premiere of a new translation of Moliere's Misanthrope by Tony Harrison, both with United Players of Vancouver. 

Nigel Nicholson is the Walter Mintz Professor of Classics at Reed College in Oregon. He received his BA from Oxford in 1990, and his PhD from Penn in 1994; he then served as an assistant professor at Wellesley College for a year, before moving to Reed College in 1995. He was named to the Mintz Chair of Classics in 2005, and held a Millicent McIntosh fellowship from 2006-07. In 2008-09 he received leave from Reed to be the founding Director of the new Sicilian program of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies. A dedicated teacher and strong supporter of Classics in the Northwest at all levels, he was named Oregon’s Professor of the Year for 2005 by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and then in 2006 served as the President of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest.

Nicholson’s research focuses on the powerful cities of archaic and classical Sicily, and on the art generated by the patronage of their tyrants. He has written widely on the epinician ode, and is the author of Aristocracy and Athletics in Archaic and Classical Greece (published by Cambridge University Press in 2005), as well as various articles in classical journals. He also believes strongly in the need for Classics to reach a larger audience; he has published on Greek medicine and modern medical ethics in the medical journal, Neurosurgery, and recently delivered a Parlitalia Lecture at the University of Vancouver in January 2009 to coincide with the Winter Olympics.

Jim Svendsen is an Associate Professor of Classics & Theatre at the University of Utah. He received his PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota, where he specialized in Greek and Roman theatre and was actively involved in several stage, film and radio productions. He has received several U of Utah awards for teaching and a national award for Teaching Excellence in Classics from the American Philological Association. He is the author of several articles on Greek drama and the ancient novel and has lectured widely on those topics throughout the USA and abroad. His current research project is a book on the letter device in the history of the theatre, a project that combines his interests in literature and theater production. Recently he played a professor and Zeus in a Smithsonian documentary Struck by Lightning, a film which probably will not play in a theater near you!

From 1971-1999 Prof. Svendsen was an Instructor and Field Director for a summer institute in Greece, where he enjoyed Greek food, music and culture under the therapeutic Greek sun. He is the founding father and currently Artistic Director and Producer of The Classical Greek Theater Festival of Utah, the annual production and tour of an ancient Greek tragedy in translation for the entire community with a broad outreach program to colleges and high schools.