Trevor Luke

Trevor S. Luke (Ph.D., Graduate Group in Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania) is an ancient historian and classicist specializing in the cultural history and prose literature of the Late Republic and Early Empire. His first book, Ushering in a New Republic: Theologies of Arrival at Rome in the First Century BCE (University of Michigan Press, 2014), examined Roman commanders’ use of the gods in their ceremonies and narratives of arrival at Rome. With Andrew Koh, Ph.D. (Yale Peabody Museum), Professor Luke recently published an article on the emperor Caligula’s medical knowledge (“Antikyran hellebore in the time of Caligula,” PEASA 4 2025). He is the director of ethnohistorical research for the Southern Phokis Regional Project and the Yale Ancient Pharmacology Program. His new book project, The Healing Touch of Emperors: Miracles, Cults, and Competing Ideologies, is under contract with Liverpool University Press.