New publication edited by Dr Christina Riggs of the School of World Art Studies.

From the Oxford University Press website:

"Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting identities, patterns of language use and religious belief, and the management of agriculture and trade. Roman Egypt was a literal and figurative crossroads shaped by the movement of people, goods, and ideas, and framed by permeable boundaries of self and space."

"This handbook is unique in drawing together many different strands of research on Roman Egypt, in order to suggest both the state of knowledge in the field and the possibilities for collaborative, synthetic, and interpretive research. Arranged in seven thematic sections, each of which includes essays from a variety of disciplinary vantage points and multiple sources of information, it offers new perspectives from both established and younger scholars, featuring individual essay topics, themes, and intellectual juxtapositions."

Edited by Christina Riggs, Lecturer, School of World Art Studies and Museology, University of East Anglia

Christina Riggs is a lecturer at the University of East Anglia, having previously worked in museums in Cambridge, Manchester, and Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Author of The Beautiful Burial in Roman Egypt (Oxford 2005), Riggs studied at Brown University, the University of California at Berkeley, and Harvard University, before receiving her doctorate from Oxford University.

 

Contributors: 

Donald M. Bailey 
Amin Benaissa (British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Katherine Blouin (Assistant Professor in Greek and Roman History, University of Toronto)
Martin Bommas (Senior Lecturer in Egyptology and Curator of the Eton Myers Collection, University of Birmingham)
Barbara E. Borg (Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Exeter)
Maria Cannata (editor, Discussions in Egyptology journal)
Malcolm Choat (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History and member of the Ancient Cultures Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney)
Paola Davoli (Associate Professor of Egyptology, University of Salento)
Mark Depauw (Associate Professor in the Research Unit for Ancient History, Katholieke University, Leuven)
Jacco Dieleman (Associate Professor of Egyptology, University of California, Los Angeles)
T. V. Evans (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, Sydney)
David Frankfurter (Professor of Religion and Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University)
Jennifer Gates-Foster (Department of Classics at the University of Texas, Austin)
Beatrix Gessler-Löhr (Egyptologist based, Heidelberg)
Matt Gibbs (Assistant Professor at the University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Rudolf Haensch (Co-Director of the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik of the German Archaeological Institute and Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich)
Andrew Harker (teaches Classics in Hertfordshire)
Friederike Herklotz (member of the Institut für Klassische Archäologie, Humboldt University)
Friedhelm Hoffmann (Professor of Egyptology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich)
Andrea Jördens (Professor of Papyrology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg)
Olaf E. Kaper (Professor of Egyptology, Leiden University)
David Klotz (Post-Doctoral Research Affiliate, Yale University)
Adam Lajtar (Professor of Greek epigraphy and papyrology, University of Warsaw)
Katja Lembke (Director of the Roemer- and Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim)
Myrto Malouta (Lecturer in Papyrology at the Ionian University, Corfu)
Martina Minas-Nerpel (Reader in Egyptology at Swansea University)
Stefan Pfeiffer (Professor for the Ancient World and Europe, Chemnitz Technological University)
Ian C. Rutherford (Classics, University of Reading)
Sandra Sandri 
Walter Scheidel (Dickason Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University)
Martin Andreas Stadler (Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Würzburg)
Molly Swetnam-Burland (Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, The College of William and Mary, Virginia)
Laurens Ernst (Rens) Tacoma (Lecturer in ancient history, Leiden University)
Gaëlle Tallet (Université de Limoges, France)
László Török (Research Professor at the Archaeological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Katelijn Vandorpe (Professor of Ancient History at the Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven)
Marjorie S. Venit (Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland)
Arthur Verhoogt (Associate Professor of Papyrology and Greek and Acting Archivist of the Papyrus Collection at the University of Michigan)
T. G. Wilfong (Associate Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan)
Penelope Wilson (Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology, Durham University)
Christiane Zivie-Coche (Director of Studies and Chair of Ancient Egyptian Religion at the École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)