Persecution

Dr James Corke-Webster is a classicist and historian with particular interests in early Christian and late antique history and literature. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Classics, History and Liberal Arts, and Co-Director of the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies. He studied Classics and Theology at Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester, before taking up a Fulbright Scholarship at Berkeley.

He has held lectureships at Edinburgh and Durham, and moved to Kings College in 2017. He is also the author of the multi-award winning book Eusebius and Empire: Constructing Church and Rome in the Ecclesiastical History.

Prof. Fathali M. Moghaddam was born in Iran, educated from an early age in England, and returned to Iran with the revolution in 1979. He was researching and teaching in Iran during the hostage crisis and the first three years of the Iran-Iraq War.

After working for the United Nations, Prof. Moghaddam researched and taught at McGill University; served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, and today he's both a professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, and the editor-in-chief of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.

He has published about 30 books and 300 papers, and received a number of prestigious academic awards. His most recent book is Shakespeare and the Experimental Psychologist.

Michelle (Mikki) Brock is Associate Professor of History at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, USA.

As a child, Mikki was always fascinated by worlds unseen, which led to her unusual expertise in the history of "things that go bump in the night". She's now a scholar of religion and the supernatural in early modern Scotland, led by her research into dark places like demonology and witchcraft.