Theodora Jim is an Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham in the UK. An ancient historian specializing in the religion and culture of Ancient Greece, she is interested in worshippers’ religious beliefs and lived experience. Her work makes extensive use of epigraphic and literary evidence, and engages with anthropological approaches. She is the author of Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece (Oxford, 2014) and Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (Oxford, 2022). She is the Principal Investigator of this Leverhulme-funded project comparing Greek and Chinese polytheism.

Vincent Goossaert is Professor of history of Daoism and Chinese religions at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, PSL), Paris. His research deals with the social history of Chinese religion in late imperial and modern times. His monographs in English include Making the Gods Speak: The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese Religious History (Harvard, 2022), Heavenly Masters: Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State (Honolulu, 2021), The Religious Question in Modern China (Chicago, 2011, with David Palmer), and The Taoists of Peking, 1800-1949: A Social History of Urban Clerics (Harvard, 2007). He is co-editor of T’oung Pao, a leading journal in Sinology.

Qin Yang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham, U.K. Her research focuses on the relationship between textual records and their visual representations in Chinese history. She has written about visual forms of classical commentaries in Song dynasty China (The Australian National University diss., 2022) and depictions of the Yellow River in early Qing local gazetteers (JEACS 3:2022). As the Research Assistant for the Leverhulme project, she is using mainly anecdotal sources, especially the twelfth-century CE Yijian zhi (Record of the Listener), to understand modes of human-divine interaction in Chinese religions. She is also working on a paper comparing the different ways of ritual production of dreams in ancient Greece and Song China.

Emma Hawdale is a PhD student at the University of Nottingham from Manchester, UK. She completed BA in Ancient History from Newcastle University in 2019, and her MA in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Manchester in 2021. She is currently writing her PhD thesis on the special relationship between Zeus and Athena as part of a wider project funded by the Leverhulme Trust on Greek and Chinese Polytheism. Her research interests include the study of ancient Greek through in mythology and cult, especially in the Archaic and Classical periods.