Alexandra Morris — Co-Chair
Dr. Alexandra F. Morris is a disabled Egyptologist, and disability activist tying the past to the present. Her research is on disability in ancient Egypt, the Classical world, and creating inclusive museums. Dr. Morris is a founder of a new field within ancient Egyptian archaeology and Egyptology, which is finally being recognised internationally roughly 12 years after its foundation. She is a Lecturer (Education) in Ancient History at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland. Dr. Morris is 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, and is a leadership member of the Disabled Action Research Kollective (D.A.R.K.). She has a BA in Archaeological Studies, Anthropology, and Art History with minors in Classics and History from SUNY Potsdam, an MA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in Museum Studies from New York University, and a PhD in History from Teesside University. She is, along with Dr. Wade Berger, the Co-Founder of the Lived Experience with Disability in Museums research group. Additionally, Dr. Morris is a published author and editor in both academic and nonacademic spaces, with two of her more recent publications (2024) being the first ever two books on disability in ancient Egypt. She is currently working on her fourth and fifth academic books; a biography and a sourcebook which both centre ancient disability. Dr. Morris has cerebral palsy and dyspraxia.
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.
Tori Lee — Secretary
Tori Lee is an Assistant Professor of Classics at Davidson College. After receiving her Ph.D. in 2022 from Duke University, she spent three years at Boston University as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Society of Fellows before returning to North Carolina. She has published in Classical Receptions Journal on Dark Academia as a form of classical reception, and she is currently working on a book project on violence and ecofeminism in ancient pastoral literature. She is Co-Chair of the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus and Assistant Editor of the SCS Blog (and formerly of Eidolon Journal).
Jason Morris — Treasurer
Jason Morris is an Ancient Historian whose research focuses on science, technology, technicians, and technical literature in antiquity, as well as on the blind and blindness in the Roman world. Born blind in the United States, Jason graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kapa from Dickinson College with a degree in Classics and Archaeology in 2000. Ten years later he earned a master’s degree in Classics with Distinction from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Jason gained his PhD in Ancient History from the University of Leicester in 2016. Currently, in addition to acting as the Financial Officer for CripA and working as an independent consultant, Jason also teaches for the Renaissance Center at Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore.
Jackie Bither — Communications
Jackie Bither is a working archaeologist living in the UK. They recently completed an Archaeology MA with Distinction at Newcastle University (UK), focusing primarily on Ancient Greece and European Prehistory. She received the Gertrude Bell Award for the best Archaeology MA dissertation in 2025 for her work: “Bronze Chef — Tools and the Use of Domestic Space in Minoan Neopalatial Cooking.” They received an Ancient Studies BA at Eckerd College with a minor in Anthropology. As an undergrad, she 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. Her current research interests include prehistoric household archaeology. They were diagnosed with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (later Ankylosing Spondylitis) in 2010.