Raffaella Cribiore is Associate Curator for Papyri and Adjunct Professor of Classics at Columbia University. She is the coauthor of "Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800" and the author of "Gymnastics of the Mind: Greek Education in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt" (Princeton), which won the American Philological Association's 2004 award for the best book in classics.