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The University of MANCHESTER

School of History and Classics


Department of Classics and Ancient History

 

Kate Cooper, BA (Wesley.), MTS (Harv.), PhD (Princeton)

P

Late Roman religious & social history; gender & sexuality; martyrdom & violence

 

Roy K. Gibson, MA, PhD (Cantab)

P

Roman love elegy & didactic literature esp. Ovid; Pliny the Younger

 

David R. Langslow, MA, DPhil (Oxon)

P

Latin and Greek language and linguistics; classical and Indo-European comparative philology

HD

Tim Parkin, DPhil (Oxon)

P

Roman social history

 

Alison R. Sharrock, BA (Liv), PhD (Cantab)

P

Latin poetry & literary theory

 

Stephen C. Todd, MA, PhD (Cantab)

P

Greek social & legal history; Attic orators esp. Lysias

 

Mary Beagon, MA, DPhil (Oxon)

R

Cultural & intellectual history of the Roman Republic and early Empire

 

Peter Liddel, BA (Lond.), PhD (Oxon)

SL

Social & political history of Classical & Hellenistic Greece; Attic oratory; ancient & modern historiography; Greek inscriptions

 

Polly A. Low, MA (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)

SL

Greek political history (particularly theories & ideologies of interstate relations); war and the commemoration of war; epigraphy and monumentality

 

Andrew D. Morrison, MA  (Oxon), PhD (Lond.)

SL

Greek literature, esp. Archaic and Hellenistic poetry; ancient literary criticism; aspects of ancient philosophy; Horace

 

Andy T. Fear, MA, DPhil (Oxon)

L

Roman & Visigothic Spain; early Christianity

 

Emma M. Griffiths, MA (Oxon), PhD (Bris.)

L

Greek drama, esp. tragedy; Greek literature; ancient childhood; comparative mythology; ancient concepts of time

 

M. Ruth Morello, BA (Oxon), PhD (Cornell)

L

Greek & Roman historiography, esp. Livy; Augustan literature; Roman national identity & imperial ideology; epistolography, esp. Pliny

 

Roberta Mazza, MA (Bologna), PhD (Bologna)

Temp L (Until 2012)

Papyrology; Roman and Late Antique History; early Christianity; Greco-Roman Egypt.

 

Tim Cornell, BA, PhD (Lond)

P/RF

Roman history, esp. warfare, urbanism & ethnicity in the archaic & republican periods

 

Clare Pilsworth, BA (Nottingham), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)

RF

Early medieval manuscripts in continental Europe; sanctity; early medieval medicine

 

John Briscoe, MA, DPhil (Oxon)

Hon SRF

Livy; Valerius Maximus

 

Roslynne Bell, BA, MA, PhD (Canterbury NZ)

HRF

Julio-Claudian religio-political imagery; cult of Magna Mater; Museum studies; Roman social history

 

Fr. Anthony Dykes, BA (Hull), PhD (Manchester)

HRF

Late Antique Roman poetry; Prudentius

 

Sam Koon, BA (Nottingham), MA (Durham), PhD (Manchester)

HRF

Ancient military history; Roman battle narratives; Latin historiography

 

Suzanne Stern-Gillet, BA (Liège), MPhil (Manchester), PhD (Liège)

HRF

Ancient philosophy; Plato; Plotinus

 

James A. Thorne, BA (Lond.), MA (Manc.)

HRF

Iron-age and early Roman Gaul; the evolution & development of early states; imperialism; ancient warfare, esp. logistical & economic aspects

 

A. John N. W. Prag, MA, DPhil (Oxon), FSA

Emer P

Classical archaeology; reconstruction of ancient faces

Further information: Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, Humanities Lime Grove, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL. Tel: 0161 275 3022; Fax: 0161 275 3098, webpage: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/classicsancienthistory/


Archaeology


Sian Jones, BA, PhD (Soton)

SL

 Roman Judaea; ethnicity and cultural identity

Ina Berg, BA (Heidelberg), MPhil, PhD (Cantab)

L

Bronze Age Aegean archaeology

John-Peter Wild, MA, PhD (Cantab)

Hon RF

Archaeology of the Roman provinces; Roman textiles

Department of Art History and Visual Studies


Roger J. Ling, MA, PhD (Cantab), FSA

P

Roman archaeology; Roman art & architecture

Tom C.B. Rasmussen, MA, PhD (Cantab), FSA

SL

Etruscan art & archaeology; Greek vase painting

Emma Loosley, BA (York), MA, PhD (Lond.)

L

Late Antique & Byzantine art & architecture, esp. ecclesiastical

Department of Religions and Theology


Philip Alexander, MA, PhD (Oxon)

P

Judaism in Second Temple & Talmudic periods; Dead Sea Scrolls; the relationship between Judaism & Hellenism

Peter Oakes, BA, (Lond. Bible College), MA (Cantab), DPhil (Oxon)

TL

First century Christianity in the Graeco-Roman world; Pauline epistles, esp. Philippians, Roman Macedonia

Further information: School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, Alexander Building, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PL. Tel: 0161 306 1240; fax: 0161 306 1241

Department of Middle Eastern Studies


John F. Healey, MA (NUI), PhD (Lond.)

P

Near Eastern contacts with the Greek world; Aramaic epigraphy of Roman Near East

Further information: Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, Oxford Road Manchester, M13 9PL. Tel: 0161 275 8593.

Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

Jay Kennedy, BA (Princeton), PhD (Stanford)

VS

Plato; history and philosophy of science

Further information: Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Simon Building, Oxford Road, M13 9PL

 

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