The project is co-directed by Dr. Shelley Hales and Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis.

Shelley Hales is Senior Lecturer in Art and Visual Culture in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Bristol. She works on the personal and domestic art and architecture of the Roman world, particularly the provinces, as well as their reception, particularly in the nineteenth century. Alongside her publications on the art of the ancient world, she has published on nineteenth century imaginative reconstructions of Roman houses as re-imagined by architects, artists such as Lawrence Alma-Tadema and writers such as Walter Pater. She has also co-edited two volumes that explore the ongoing imaginative and creative appeal of Pompeii: Pompeii in the Public Imagination from its Rediscovery until Today (Oxford, 2011) and Returns to Pompeii: Interior Space and Decoration Documented and Revived. 18th-20th Century (Stockholm, 2016). Her interest in the classical influence on nineteenth century tombs stems from her current project, Mortal Remains and Immortal Ruins: Classical Archaeology and Cultures of Death in the Nineteenth Century, which looks at how the funerary culture of Britain in the nineteenth-century affected and was affected by the practices and finds of classical archaeology.

Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis is Assistant Professor and the Acting Executive Officer of the M.A. Program in Liberal Studies at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. She is also has appointments in Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology at The Graduate Center. She is interested in the gardens and architecture of the Middle East and North Africa in the Classical and Islamic periods, as well as in their reception. She has published on a wide range of topics, from the topography of Roman Damascus to the reception of Classical and Egyptian architecture in New York City. Her books include Bayt Farhi and the Sephardic Palaces of Ottoman Damascus in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries (Manar al-Athar/AASOR, 2018), Classical New York: Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham (Fordham, 2018), and Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World (Oxford, 2017). She is the deputy director of the open-access photo-archive www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk. She is interested in the reception of ancient architecture in New York City, which she has mapped in her project, Antiquity in Gotham and is the focus of her current book project. You can also subscribe to her podcasts about classical reception in New York City through iTunes.

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