Reece Edmends is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Classics. He is especially interested in Roman politics and political theory, and his dissertation explores the way the emperor Augustus used the motif of 'liberation' in his political advertising. Other research interests include the role of Cicero in the development of Roman constitutionalism, and the relationship between Rome's civic architecture and ideas of freedom. Reece is originally from the U.K. He has a B.A. and M.Phil. in Classics from King's College, Cambridge, and an M.A. in European Interdisciplinary Studies from the College of Europe, Warsaw.