Alexandra Morris — Co-Chair

Dr. Alexandra F. Morris (she/her), Co-Chair of CripAntiquity, is an Egyptologist and disability activist tying the past to the present. She is a Lecturer of Classical Studies at the University of Lincoln (UK), a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham (UK), a Research Fellow with History UK, and was named the Working Classicists’ Unsung Classicist of the Year for 2024. Her research is on disability in ancient Egypt, and creating inclusive museums. She holds a PhD in History (Teesside University), MA in Museum Studies (New York University), and an MA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilisations (Egyptology/ University of Pennsylvania). Her BA is in Archaeological Studies, Anthropology, and Art History with minors in Classics and history (SUNY Potsdam). Alexandra is also a Co-Founder of the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub, President of the Museum Education Roundtable, serves on the Editorial Board for Asterion Hub, is Chair of the Lewisboro, NY Advisory Committee for the Disabled, and a member of the Disability Culture Research Group, and the Disabled Action Research Kollective (D.A.R.K.). She has cerebral palsy and dyspraxia.

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Alicia Matz — Co-Chair

Alicia Matz earned her BA from the University of Puget Sound in 2015, her MA from Rutgers University--New Brunswick in 2017, and her PhD from Boston University in 2024. Her dissertation examined the goddess Diana in Augustan poetry and material culture. While at Boston University, she also earned certificates in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Teaching Writing. Her research interests include interactions between poetry and material culture from the age of Augustus, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and classical reception, especially in sci-fi and fantasy media. She has published on rape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Roman religious thinking and its influence on Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Pandora as an artificial intelligence hidden in Ovid’s Pygmalion myth, and fanfiction vs. the canon in Elodie Harper's The Wolf Den trilogy. She was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 1994 and joined Crip Antiquity because she was inspired by her own experiences navigating academia with a chronic illness. In her free time, she enjoys knitting, reading, and binge watching television.

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Tori Lee — Secretary

Tori Lee is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Society of Fellows at Boston University. She received her Ph.D. in 2022 from Duke University and is currently working on a book project on violence and ecofeminism in ancient pastoral literature. She is Assistant Editor of the SCS Blog and formerly of Eidolon Journal as well as Outreach officer for the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus. 

 
 
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Jason Morris — Treasurer

Jason Morris is a blind Ancient Historian who specializes in the study of Ancient Science and Technology, and the intersection between people with disabilities and technology in antiquity. He holds degrees from Dickinson College in the USA, Victoria University Wellington in NZ, and the University of Leicester in the UK. In his spare time, he enjoys exercising, hiking, reading, watching movies or television, mucking about in museums, and hanging out in cafes. He also sometimes takes long train or airplane rides to scratch a massive travel itch.

 
 
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Jackie Bither — Communications

Jackie Bither (she/they) is an Archaeology Graduate Student at Newcastle University (UK), focusing primarily on Ancient Greece and European Prehistory. They received their Bachelors in Ancient Studies at Eckerd College with a minor in Anthropology. As an undergrad, they researched disabled women in Ancient Greece: examining depictions of disabled women in Herodotus’ Histories and the treatment of disabled women in medical writings by Hippocrates. They have experience at various museums and historic sites in the United States; some responsibilities included making these spaces more accessible for disabled visitors. They were diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (later Ankylosing Spondylitis) in 2010. In her spare time, she enjoys singing, playing video games, and traveling.