2026 HIS PRO

1. William Batson, Professor, Prarie View A&M University, USA.
   Julian Benjamin Degraft-Johnson, Student, Prairie View A&M University, USA.
   Title: Reconstructing History: A 3D Visualization of a Roman Bath.
2. Debby Sneed, Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach, USA.
   Title: Disability Exemptions for Ancient Greek Military Service.
3. Andrew Erwin, Se.nior Academic Director of Adelphi International & Adjunct Professor, Adelphi University, USA.
   Title: Democracy and Higher Education in Classical Athens: Reflections on the Future of a Historical Antagonism.
4. Elanij Swart, Lecturer, University of South Africa, South Africa.
   Title: Water Manipulation as a Show of Power: The Case of Herod the Great

1. Aleksandra Tryniecka, Assistant Professor, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Poland.
   Title: From Text to Popular Culture: Re-writing Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” in Helen Fielding’s “Bridget Jones’s Diary”.
2. Adam Miyashiro, Professor, Stockton University, USA.
   Title: The Global Alexander Romance: A Trans-Cultural Text Network.
3. Bernard Odendaal, Extraordinary Professor, North-West University, South Africa.
   Title: Manifestations of Sensory Perception in Some Poems included in two Digital Byderhand Installations at Worcester, South Africa.
4. Anush Sedrakyan, Chair of Foreign Literature, Yerevan State University, Armenia.
   Title: The Principles of Pagan and Christian Values.
5. Claudiu-Liviu Onisoara, PhD Student, University of Craiova, Romania.
   Title: The King’s Sleep in the Book of Esther. Insomnia as a Turning Point in Ancient Texts.

1. Nil Nadire Geliskan, Research Fellow, İzmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye.
   Title: Understanding the Built Environment in the İzmir Palimpsest: Architecture and Settlement In İzmir from the Perspective of Architecture Students.
2. Daniel Varga, Archaeologist, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel.
   Title: A Villa and a Hiding Underground System from the Late Second Temple Period in the Judean Lowlands.
3. Ayman Hassouna, Researcher, University College Dublin, Ireland.
   Title: The Cultural and Civilizational Development of Gazan Society Through the Study of the Forms and Images Executed on Mosaics.

1. Magdalen Ki, Associate Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong.
   Title: Poe and the Criminal Mind.
2. Paola Partenza, Associate Professor, University of Chieti-Pescara “Gabriele d’Annunzio”, Italy.
   Title: Between Reason and Revolt. A Critical Comparison of Mary Wollstonecraft and Emmeline Pankhurst on Women’s Moral and Political Agency.
3. Sanja Grakalic Plenkovic, Assistant Professor & Head Librarian, Polytechnic of Rijeka, Croatia.
   Title: Between Aestheticism and Fairy-Tale Poetics: A Comparative View of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić and Oscar Wilde.

1. David Philip Wick, Professor of History (Retired), Gordon College, USA.
   Title: A Tale of Two Science Schools in the Ancient Aegean: How the Characters (and Focus) of the Epicurean Schools in Athens and on Rhodes Diverged in the Late Roman Republic.
2. Aaron Plattner, Independent Researcher, University of Graz, Austria/Greece.
   Title: To Be or Not to Be: The (Apparently) Lost Arcadian Cities in Strabo’s Geography and Pausanias’ Description of Greece.
3. Kathleen Ann O’Donnell, Independent Researcher, British School at Athens, Greece.
   Title: How Was Celtic Resistance Poetry in English Used in the Nineteenth Century in the Balkans and Anatolia to Save Europe from Future Wars?
4. Dov Tamarkin, Researcher, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
   Title: Echoes of Harmony: The Golden Ratio in the Design of Greek and Roman Theatres.

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1. Eleni Kontogianni, University of Strasbourg, France.
   Title: Medea the Barbarian, the Stranger, the Foreigner, and the Friend. Euripides’ Medea in the Light of the Peloponnesian War.
2. Alison Lee Naidoo, Lecturer, University of South Africa, South Africa.
   Title: Ancient Greece and Modern Africa: Homeric Marriage and Funerary Customs in an African Context.
3. Ori Z Soltes, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University, USA.
   Title: The Casting and Recasting of Reality: From Mythos to Historia to History and Myth.

1. Claudine Dauphin, Research Fellow, Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies (RIIFS), Jordan.
   Title: Wheat and Wine: Wadi Agriculture and Viticulture in the “Garden of the Lord” at Byzantine and Umayyad Kastron Mefa’a (Umm Ar-Rasas) and its “Satellites” on the Edge of the Jordanian Desert.
2. Ekaterina Tolmacheva, PhD Student, Russian State Pedagogical University (Herzen University), Russia.
   Title: Concept of the Supreme Power of Byzantium and Features of Its Reception by the Princes of Russia.
3. Seyed Salam Fathi, PhD Candidate, University of Catania, Italy.
   Title: The Transmutation of Kufic Script in the Mediterranean: Artistic Appropriation and Norman Legitimacy (10^th–15^th Centuries).

1. Nesrine Chahine, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, USA.
   Title: The Social Novel and Egyptian Literary Magazines.
2. Vjollca Dibra Ibrahimi, Dean of the Faculty of Philology, University “Ukshin Hoti” Prizren, Kosovo.
   Title: Avenging and Virtuous Women in Ancient Greek Literature.
3. Iyas Nasser, Lecturer, Hebrew University, Israel.
   Title: The Assertive Female Voice in Maysūn bint Baḥdal’s (d. c. 700) Poetry.
4. Stephanie de Villiers, Academic Programme Designer, Red & Yellow Creative School of Business, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
   Title: When the Power Shifts: Illegal Immigration, Gender Dynamics, and Mental Illness in Mira T. Lee’s Everything Here Is Beautiful.

1. Kevin Glowacki, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University, USA.
   Title: Ritual Behavior and Votive Practice on the North Slope of the Acropolis.
2. Eliezer Tauber, Full Professor, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
   Title: The Origins of Social Darwinism in the Arab East.
3. Xiaoli Qin, Professor, Fudan University, China.
   Title: Cultural Interaction and Influence during the Erligang Period: An Analysis Based on Decorative Ritual Artifacts.
4. Juan Pablo Quintero Guzman, Curator-Archaeologist, Museo del Oro, Banco de la República, Colombia.
   Title: Archaeological Style and Cultural Unity: Rethinking the Identity of Archaeological Regions in Colombia.

1. William Davis, Professor, Colorado College, USA.
   Title: Lord Byron and the Greek War of Independence.
2. Michelle Faubert, Professor, University of Manitoba, Canada.
   Title: John Ferriar, Romantic Psychology, and Abolitionist Drama.
3. Christina Weiler, Director in Residence, Junior Year in Munich, Germany.
   Title: The Sea and the Mine as Metaphysical Environments in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s “Die Bergwerke zu Falun” (“The Mines of Falun,” 1819).
4. Matthew Scott, Lecturer, University of Reading, UK.
   Title: Byron among the Artists.
5. Joseph Rockelmann, German Language & Literature Teacher, Bavarian International School, Germany.
   Title: Childhood Trauma in Ludwig Tieck’s “Der blonde Eckbert” (1797).
6. Filip Bukowski, PhD Student, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
   Title: Folk Songs as an Integral Element of Polish Traditional Culture.