Lexie Henning

Lexie Henning produces and hosts the Pourdavoud Institute’s flagship podcast, Legacies of Ancient Persia, and produces the Yarshater Center’s podcast, Echoes of Iran.

She holds a BA in Classics from the University of Missouri and an MSc in Southeast European Politics and History from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2020, she co-founded The Ozymandias Project, a humanities-focused non-profit. Her work in public humanities led her to create and host her award-winning podcast, Ancient Office Hours, and to co-host The Reading Party Podcast.

As of 2025, she has been pursuing her PhD in Classics and Historical Game Studies at the University of Bristol (UK). Her research uses The Last of Us franchise to examine implicit classical reception in non-historical or mythological video games, transmedia adaptation, and paratexts. She is also interested in how the development process contributes to the creation and expansion of narratives across transmedia systems. When not occupied with research or podcasting duties, you can find her playing games or reading a good book.