David Goldstein’s project while at SCAS provides a comprehensive new account of the diversification of the ancient Greek dialects by addressing three fundamental questions: how the four major dialect groups emerged, when they diverged, and what migration patterns shaped their distribution. To answer these long-standing questions, the project integrates linguistic and archaeological evidence with a suite of innovative quantitative methods, including phylogenetic, phylogeographic, and mixture modeling approaches. This interdisciplinary framework offers fresh insight into the historical processes that drove dialectal differentiation in the ancient Greek world.

David Goldstein will be a Human Past Senior Fellow in the spring of 2026.

Geoffrey Maguire’s project, “Un/Natural: Marine Sexualities and the Queer Ecological”, examines a range of visual, digital and performance art that explores the relationship between queer theory, marine biology and the environmental humanities. It interrogates what distinct approaches to human and non-human sexualities reveal about the ways that “nature” and the “natural” have been mobilised in recent years scientifically, cultural and politically.

Geoffrey Maguire will be a Fellow at SCAS during the spring of 2026.