Rodney Ast is Academic Director in the Institute for Papyrology at Heidelberg University. His research interests include Greek and Latin papyrology and epigraphy, the administrative and social history of Greco-Roman Egypt, and Red Sea and Indian Ocean trade. He is co-director of excavations at Berenike on Egypt's Red Sea coast.Roger S. Bagnall is Leon Levy Director and Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He is author, co-author, and editor of many books including Egypt in Late Antiquity and Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East.Clementina Caputo is a Research Fellow at the Politecnico di Milano-DABC and chief ceramologist at Soknopaiou Nesos/Dime (Fayyum), Trimithis/Amheida (Dakhla Oasis), Umm al-Dabadib (Kharga Oasis), and Tuna el-Gebel (Middle Egypt). Her main area of research is the ceramic material culture of Roman and Byzantine Egypt.Roberta Casagrande-Kim is the Bernard and Lisa Selz Director of Exhibitions and Gallery Curator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. An archaeologist and a curator of ancient art, Dr. Casagrande-Kim has worked extensively in archaeological excavations in Italy, Israel, Egypt, and Turkey.Giovanni R. Ruffini is Professor of History and Classical Studies at Fairfield University, where he directs the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program. His books include Medieval Nubia: A Social and Economic History (Oxford, 2012) and Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity (Cambridge, 2018).Günter Vittmann is Professor of Egyptology at Würzburg University. He is an internationally-recognized specialist in hieratic (particularly "abnormal hieratic") and demotic, and his research extends beyond philology to the relations of Ancient Egypt with its neighbors.Paola Davoli is Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of Salento (Lecce).Anna Lucille Boozer is Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at Baruch College and an experienced Roman archaeologist who has published extensively on Roman Egypt, imperialism and daily life. Her work has emphasized how categories of identity - such as gender, ethnicity, status and age - affected modes of self-representation under Roman rule. Her articles have appeared in American Journal of Archaeology and Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology.