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Neil Bernstein鈥檚 most recent book,  (Oxford, 2025), was published on June 20. His book chapter: 鈥淟atin Sophists and Rhetors From the Age of Trajan to the Age of Constantine,鈥� also recently appeared in , ed. Gavin Kelly and Aaron Pelttari. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). Volume 1, Chapter 10. In addition, he has received a contract from Oxford to publish Statius, Thebaid 6: Introduction, Translation, and Commentary, co-authored with Antony Augoustakis. He delivered a paper at UC-Davis on Lucan's Bellum Civile in March and will give a paper at Vanderbilt in October on Statius's Thebaid.

Brian Collins taught his popular online course CARS 2410: The Global Occult during the second summer session. He continued co-editing The Routledge Companion to the Mah膩bh膩rata, contributed entries on Raymond Buckland (Seax Wicca founder) and the Church of All Worlds for an upcoming exhibit at New York City鈥檚 Museum of Sex, and submitted a 5,000-word essay on sacrifice in Hinduism and Buddhism for the Bloomsbury Handbook of Mimetic Theory. He also conducted interviews and attended a music festival in Buena Vista, CO, for research on his new book, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard鈥檚 Metamodern Music and Mythology.

Cory Crawford delivered an invited lecture at Yale Divinity School in April titled 鈥淲ho鈥檚 Afraid of a Female Priest? Biblical Narratives Confront Kenite Traditions.鈥� He presented three research papers: at Cambridge University on 鈥淎lphabets in a World of Hieroglyphs,鈥� to be published in an edited volume; at the American Society for Overseas Research on 鈥淗azor Ceramic Rattles and the Sensory Experience of Cult,鈥� to be submitted to an archaeological journal; and at Boston College鈥檚 鈥淕raphic Signs of Religion in Antiquity鈥� conference on 鈥淚conic Politics and the Philosophy of Perception.鈥� In May, he led the Ping Institute Summer Seminar for regional high school teachers on ancient writing systems. Over the summer, he served as field supervisor for the T眉rkmen-Karah枚y眉k Archaeological Project in Turkey, accompanied by three OHIO students, with findings to be presented and submitted for publication this fall.

Myrna Perez completed a fellowship at the  and was elected a fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. She published  (John Hopkins University Press), and authored 鈥溾�� (Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences) and 鈥淭aller Than a T鈥慠ex鈥� in  (John Hopkins University Press). She gave invited talks at the Penn (鈥淐hristian Nationalism and the Afterlives of Scopes鈥�), Yale and Denison (鈥淐riticizing Science鈥�), and Vassar (panelist, 鈥淪cience & the Culture Wars鈥�) and delivered the keynote address at the University of Erfurt鈥檚 鈥淭ruth Politics Between Science and Society鈥� conference.

Loren Lybarger delivered an  at the University of Oslo in June titled 鈥淩eligion and Identity in the Palestinian North Atlantic: Chicago, Copenhagen, and Oslo.鈥� The talk reported findings from his current research on Palestinian refugee and immigrant experiences in Scandinavia. He continued his fieldwork in Oslo and Copenhagen over the summer. In February, he gave the  address at the 11th Annual Middle East and North African Studies Symposium at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR. The talk, titled 鈥淭ranscending Catastrophes: Transformations of Palestinian Identities Since the First Intifada,鈥� drew from his research in the Middle East, North America, and Northern Europe. 

Fred Drogula was awarded the  Excellence in Teaching Award, as well as OHIO's Jeanette Grasselli Brown Teaching Award in Arts and Sciences. He has a new book forthcoming from Oxford University Press titled Spheres of Control: The Origins of Government in Early Rome, which provides a new reconstruction for the formation of the Roman Republic. He also has a related article forthcoming from the American Journal of Philology titled 鈥淭he Origins of Law in Early Rome,鈥� which challenges traditional views on how the Roman legal system developed. He has been invited to give a paper in Oxford (UK) this fall exploring the intellectual history of Roman concepts of authority.