Personnel and support

Personnel

• Olivia Elder undertook her PhD (‘Language and the politics of Roman identity’) at Peterhouse, Cambridge, after which she held a CRASSH/British School at Rome Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. She is now a Junior Research Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She is primarily responsible for the Cicero and Suetonius data, having first worked on code-switching in Cicero’s letters during her MSt at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and worked as a research assistant for the network in summer 2014.
• Professor Gardner-Chloros is Professor of Sociolinguistics at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a world expert on bilingualism and code-switching.
• Dr Patrick James completed his undergraduate and post-graduate degrees at Jesus College Cambridge, specializing in Greek linguistics. He is co-author with Alex Mullen of Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman worlds. He was a senior advisor for the pilot project.
• Scott Vanderbilt is based in Los Angeles and is technical director for the ERC project LatinNow. He masterminded the online technical content with valuable support from Jacob Baldwin, at the Faculty of Classics.
• Dr Alex Mullen is Associate Professor in Classical Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the founder and director of the CSRL network and primarily responsible for the data on the correspondence of Fronto and Pliny.
• Robert Stroud previously undertook an MPhil in Greek syntax in the E caucus in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and then trained to be a doctor at the University of Warwick. In summer 2015 he worked as a Research Assistant for the network. He was primarily responsible for the syntactical analysis across all the authors and for cleaning the data.

Support

The network members are grateful to All Souls College, Oxford and to the Editors of the Classical Studies Series, University of Cambridge, for their support of the network and the pilot study.