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James Clackson is Professor of Comparative Philology in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge and is one of the foremost scholars of the historical sociolinguistics of Latin and Greek. His major publications include Indo-European Linguistics (Cambridge, 2007), The Blackwell History of the Latin Language (with Geoffrey Horrocks) (2007), A Companion to the Latin Language (2011) and Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2015). He was PI of the AHRC-funded Project 'Greek in Italy' (2013-2018). Patrick James teaches Classics at Haileybury College, Hertfordshire. He served for nine years as an Assistant Editor for the Cambridge Greek Lexicon. Katherine McDonald is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Her books include Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily (Cambridge, 2015) and Italy Before Rome: A Sourcebook (forthcoming), written as part of her AHRC-funded project 'Connectivity and Competition: Multilingualism in Ancient Italy'. Livia Tagliapietra is a Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis as part of the AHRC-funded project 'Greek in Italy'. Her research interests include: ancient Greek linguistics and dialectology, historical sociolinguistics, and the languages and cultures of ancient Italy. Nicholas Zair is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Peterhouse. He has written two books: The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Celtic (2012) and Oscan in the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, 2016). He is presently working on a third, on Roman imperial inscriptions and sub-elite education, while holding a Pro Futura Scientia Fellowship based in Cambridge and Uppsala. |
