Matt Waters (“Making (Up) History”) is an associate professor of foreign languages and history at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. A specialist in Near Eastern and classical Greek history, he was recently awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies to work on his translation of Ctesias’s history of the Persian Empire. Ali Mousavi (“Why Darius Built Persepolis”) is a professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. His father, Mahmoud Mousavi, excavated at Persepolis with Akbar Tadjvidi in the late 1960s. Linda Maria Gigante (“Death in Louisville, Roman-Style”) is an associate professor […]