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The University of OXFORD
The University of OXFORD
Note: Postcodes and telephone/fax numbers for individual Colleges will be found in Appendix E.
Faculty of Classics
The Faculty Board of Classics, with 2 sub-faculties (Ancient History and Classical Archaeology, Classical Languages and Literature). The Board and the sub-faculties have elected chairs, who serve for short periods (2 or 3 years). Philosophy is now a separate Faculty; philosophers with interests in ancient philosophy are also members of the Classics Faculty and are included here.
Professors
| Ancient History (Camden) | Alan K. Bowman, MA, PhD (Tor), FBA |
Brasenose |
Roman history and papyrology |
European Archaeology |
Chris Gosden, MA, PhD (Sheffield) |
Keble |
European archaeology |
Ancient Philosophy |
Terence Irwin, MA (Oxon), PhD (Princeton), FBA |
Keble |
Ancient philosophy; ethics (esp.history); Kant |
Ancient History (Wykeham) |
R.C.T. Parker, MA, DPhil, FBA |
New College |
Greek history and religion |
Greek |
Christopher B.R. Pelling, MA, DPhil, FBA |
Christ Church |
Greek & Latin literature; historiography |
Latin |
Tobias Reinhardt, DPhil, (Staatexamen, Frankfurt) |
Corpus Christi |
Latin literature, esp. Cicero |
Classical Art/Archaeology |
Roland R.R. Smith, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FBA |
Lincoln |
Greek & Roman sculpture, portraits; Asia Minor |
Comparative Philology (Diebold) |
Andreas Willi, DPhil |
Worcester |
Greek dialects; Greek literary language |
Archaeology of the Roman Empire |
Andrew Wilson, MA, DPhil |
All Souls |
Roman archaeology; ancient economy; ancient technology |
College Tutorial Fellows and University Lecturers
All Souls
| Andrew Wilson, MA, DPhil | P |
(See under Professors) |
| Simon Hornblower | SRF | Classical Greek historiography (esp. Herodotus and Thucydides) and the relationship between historical texts as literature and as history; Pindar; Lykophron’s Alexandra |
| Ben Gray | JRF | Ancient Greek History |
Balliol
| Adrian Kelly, DPhil | TF |
Homer; early hexameter poetry; Athenian tragedy; Attic drama |
Jessica Moss, BA (Yale), PhD (Princeton) |
TF |
Ancient philosophy, esp. moral psychology in Aristotle and Plato. |
Rosalind Thomas, MA, PhD (Lond.) |
TF |
Literacy and orality; Greek historiography; Greek law; Greek politics and society |
Brasenose
| Alan K. Bowman, MA, PhD (Tor), FBA | P |
(See under Professors) |
Edward H. Bispham, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Ancient history; epigraphy; archaeology |
Llewelyn Morgan, MA, PhD |
TF |
Latin literature, esp. Virgil |
Christ Church
| Christopher B.R. Pelling, MA, DPhil, FBA | P |
(See under Professors) |
Anna J. Clark, MA (St. And.), DPhil |
TF |
Republican Rome; Roman topography |
Mark J. Edwards, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Plotinus; patristics |
Lindsay Judson, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Ancient philosophy, Aristotle |
Dirk Obbink, MA, PhD |
TF |
Papyrology; Greek literature |
Richard B. Rutherford, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Homer, 5th century literature, rhetoric, historiography |
Oliver Thomas, BA, MSt, DPhil |
JF |
Homeric Hymns, Greek religion, tragedy |
James Burbidge, MSt, DPhil |
L |
Latin Poetry, esp. Virgil |
Corpus Christi
| Tobias Reinhardt, DPhil (Staatsexamen, University of Frankfurt) | P |
(See under Professors) |
Ursula Coope, MA, PhD (Berkeley) |
P&TF |
Ancient philosophy, esp. Aristotle |
Stephen J. Harrison, MA, DPhil |
P & TF |
Latin literature and its reception |
John Ma, MA DPhil (Cantab) |
TF |
Greek, esp. Hellenistic history; Asia Minor; epigraphy; the polis |
Tim J. G. Whitmarsh, MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) |
TF |
Greek literature; literary and cultural theory |
J.R. Elsner, MA, PhD (Cantab) |
SRF |
Classical and late antique art; reception of ancient art; pilgrimage |
Toni Badnall, BA, MPhil, PhD (Nottingham) |
L |
Greek literature, esp. epic, lyric and the Second Sophistic; gender; reception; comparative literature |
Neil McLynn, MA, DPhl |
L |
Later Roman history |
Exeter
| Gregory O. Hutchinson, MA, DPhil | P & TF |
Greek tragedy; Hellenistic poetry; Silver Latin; Cicero |
Jesus
| Michael Vickers, MA, DLitt, (Wales), FSA | P&SRF |
Mediterranean archaeology; Athenian drama |
Armand D'Angour, MA, PhD (Lond.) |
TF |
Greek & Latin literature; Greek social & cultural history |
Jan-Mathieu Carbon |
JRF |
Greek epigraphy; sacred laws; Asia Minor |
Keble
| Averil Cameron, MA, PhD (Lond.) | The Warden |
Late Antique & Byzantine history and literature |
Chris Gosden, MA, PhD (Sheffield) |
P |
(See under Professors) |
Terence Irwin, MA (Oxon), PhD (Princeton), FBA |
P |
(See under Professors) |
L.M. Bendall, DPhil |
L |
Aegean prehistory; Linear B |
Lady Margaret Hall
| Richard H.A. Jenkyns, MLitt, MA | P & TF |
Latin poetry; classical tradition (esp. 19th cent.) |
Christina Kuhn, MA, Staatsexamen, DPhil |
TF |
Roman political, social and cultural history; Roman Asia Minor; Greek and Latin epigraphy |
Christopher Shields, BA, MA (Bowling Green State), MA DPhil (Cornell) |
TF |
Ancient philosophy, esp. Plato, Aristotle & Stoicism |
Lincoln
| Roland R.R. Smith, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FBA | P |
(See under Professors) |
Maria Stamatopoulou, DPhil |
TF |
Greek art and culture of 1st millennium BC; burial practices and funerary iconography; Thessaly |
Jane Anderson |
L |
Greek art and aarchaeology; body language and anatomy; Hellenistic sculpture |
Harry Sidebottom, MA, DPhil |
L |
Ancient warfare; historiography; art |
Magdalen
| Andrew Hobson, MA | Grammatikos |
Greek & Latin languauge & grammar |
Mark Pobjoy, MA, DPhil |
Senior Tutor |
Greek & Roman history; Republican Italy; Latin epigraphy |
Felix Budelmann, BA (Lond.), PhD (Cantab) |
TF |
Greek drama; Greek lyric; elegiac and iambic poetry; reception of Greek literature |
Alfonso Moreno, AB (Harvard), MSt, DPhil |
TF |
Greek economic & social history |
Zena Kamash |
L |
Classical archaeology |
Merton
| Irene Lemos, MA, DPhil | R |
Pre-Classical & Classical Greek archaeology; excavation |
John S.C. Eidinow, MA (Oxon) |
L |
Latin poetry of Augustan period, esp. Horace |
Henriette van der blom, MSt |
L |
Late Republican Roman history, Cicero |
Mary Whitby, MA (Oxon), PhD (Edin) |
L |
Greek literature of the 6th & 7th centuries AD |
Rhiannon Ash, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Latin historiography; Tacitus; Silver Latin literature |
Johnathan R. W. Prag, MA (Oxon), PhD (Lond.) |
TF |
Roman history; Sicily; epigraphy |
Gail Fine, MA (Harvard), PhD (Harvard) |
SRF |
Ancient philosophy |
New College
| Robert C.T. Parker, MA, DPhil, FBA | P |
(See under Professors) |
Robin J. Lane Fox, MA |
R |
Greek and Roman history; Alexander the Great |
Paolo Crivelli, MA (Florence), PhD (Pisa) |
TF |
Ancient philosophy, esp. Aristotle & Stoicism |
Jane L. Lightfoot, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Hellenistic & imperial literature; Roman Near East; oracles |
Gregory Kantor, MPhil |
JRF |
Political, social & institutional history of the early Roman Empire; Roman law; local law in Asia minor; epigraphy |
Oriel
| David O. Charles, MA, BPhil, DPhil | P&SRF |
Aristotle; metaphysics; philosophy of mind |
Bruno G.F. Currie, MA, MSt, DPhil |
TF |
Greek epic and lyric poetry; Greek religion |
Teresa Morgan, MA, PhD (Cantab) |
TF |
History of education; cultural history; ethics; Early Church |
Juliane Kerkhecker |
F&Grocyn Lecturer |
Greek & Latin language; Imperial Latin poetry; Greek orators |
The Queen's College
| Angus M. Bowie, MA, DPhil | TF |
Literary theory; Herodotus; comedy; Greek anthropology; Virgil |
Chris Collard, MA, MLitt |
L |
Greek tragedy, esp. Euripides; history of Classical scholarship |
Charles Crowther, MA, PhD |
L |
Epigraphy |
Annamaria Schiaparelli, MA, PhD (Padua) |
L |
Ancient philosophy |
Regent’s Park College
| Peter Haarer, BA, DPhil | L |
Archaic epigraphy; Archaic Greek history and archaeology; Archaic Greek iron |
St. Anne's
| Roger Crisp, MA, DPhil | TF |
Ancient philosophy; moarl & political philosophy |
Matthew Leigh, BA, DPhil (Oxon) |
P&TF |
Latin poetry, esp. Lucan; New Comedy; Livy |
St. Hilda's
| Rebecca Armstrong, DPhil | TF |
Augustan poetry, esp. Virgil & Ovid |
Katherine Clarke, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Roman and Hellenistic history; Strabo |
Fiona Macintosh |
TF |
Performance of Greek and Roman drama |
Sarah Cohen, PhD |
L |
Roman political history; Roman criminal law |
Emily G.D. Kearns, MA, DPhil |
SRF |
Homer, Greek tragedy, Greek religion |
Elaine Matthews, MA, MPhil |
SRF |
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, see below |
Lucia Nixon |
Senior Tutor |
Aegean archaeology; survey archaeology; archaeology & gender |
St. Hugh's
| Timothy C. B. Rood, MA, DPhil | L |
Greek literature, esp. historiography |
St. John's
| Malcolm Davies, MA, DPhil | TF |
Greek poetry, esp. Homer and Greek lyric |
Nicholas Purcell, MA, FBA |
TF |
Roman social, economic & cultural history; city of Rome; Mediterranean Sea and its history |
David Lee, MA (Oxon), PhD (Bristol) |
L |
Ancient Philosophy, esp. Plato |
Katharine Earnshaw, PhD |
JF |
Latin epic poetry of the imperial period; ancient attitudes towards death |
Ben Russell, BA, MSt |
L |
Classical archaeology |
Somerville
| Lesley Brown, BPhil, MA | TF |
Philosophy, esp. Plato, Aristotle |
Luke Pitcher, BA, MA, MSt, DPhil, PGCert |
TF |
Historiography; reception |
Catherine Draycott, BFA, MPhil |
JF |
Images and identitiesin the funerary art of Archaic Anatolia, 600-450 BC |
Beate Dignas, MA, DPhil |
T |
Hellenistic history & the Roman East; Greek religion |
Richard Hitchman, MPhil, DPhil |
L |
Comparative philology; Ancient Greek personal names |
Trinity
Peter G. McC. Brown, MA |
TF |
Greek & Roman comedy; Latin poetry |
University
| William Allan, MA (Edin.), DPhil | TF |
Greek literature, esp. tragedy & epic |
Lisa Kallet, MA (Colorado), PhD (Berkeley) |
TF |
Greek history & historiography; Athens |
Almut Fries |
JF |
Greek tragedy; early Greek hexameter poetry; grammar; metre |
Wadham
| Stephen J. Heyworth, MA, PhD (Cantab) | TF |
Latin poetry, esp. Propertius & Ovid; textual criticism |
Peter Thonemann, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Epigraphy; Roman & Byzantine Asia Minor |
Ruth Parkes, MA, DPhil |
F |
Latin literature, esp. Statius & Claudian |
Wolfson
| Donna Kurtz, MA, DPhil | P |
Greek vases, anatomy & Greek art; Classical reception; history of collection; information technology applications |
Martin D. Goodman, MA, DPhil, FBA |
P&RF |
History of the early Roman Empire; Jews in the Graeco-Roman World |
Christopher Howgego, MA, DPhil |
P&F |
Greek & Roman numismatics |
Janet DeLaine, BA, PhD (Adelaide), FSA |
F |
Roman archaeology, architecture & art |
John H.W. Penney, MA, DPhil (Lecturer in Classical Philology) |
F |
Indo-European philology; languages of pre-Roman Italy |
Philomen Probert, MA, DPhil |
F |
Classical philology & linguistics |
Richard Sorabji, CBE, MA, DPhil, FBA |
F |
Ancient philosophy |
Roger S.O. Tomlin, MA, DPhil, FSA |
F |
Late Roman history; Roman Britain; Roman epigraphy; Roman army |
Ellen E. Rice, BA (Mount Holyoke), MA (Cantab), DPhil |
SRF |
Hellenistic history; ancient topography; military & naval history; Dodecanese Islands; Alexander the Great |
Amin Benaissa, MSt, DPhil |
RF |
Greek literary and documentary papyrology; social, administrative and economic history of Roman and early Byzantine Egypt |
C.V. Crowther, MA, PhD (Lond.) |
RF |
Epigraphy |
Martin E. Henig, MA, DPhil |
L & FF |
Glyptics; Roman art, religion and Roman Britain |
Ida Toth, BA, DPhil |
L |
Medieval Greek and Latin; Classical tradition in Medieval literature; epigraphy |
Henry S. Kim |
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Greek numismatics; Greek history; history of collections |
Worcester
| Andreas Willi, DPhil | P |
(See under Professors) |
Peta G. Fowler, MA, DPhil |
FF |
Latin poetry; Seneca; ancient literary criticism |
Josephine Crawley Quinn, MA, PhD (Berkeley) |
TF |
Hellenistic & Roman history & archaeology, esp. pre-Roman North Africa |
Sabina M. Lovibond, MA, DPhil |
TF |
Moral & ancient philosophy; feminist theory |
Scott Scullion, BA (Toronto), PhD (Harvard) |
TF |
Greek literature, esp. tragedy; Greek religion |
Language Teaching Team
| Juliane Kerkhecker | Grocyn Lecturer |
Andrew Hobson |
Grammatikos |
Richard Ashdowne |
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Marina Bazzani |
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Mary Whitby |
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Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 288 391; email: enquiries@classics.ox.ac.uk
Institute of Archaeology
Further information: Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PG. Tel: 01865 278 240; fax: 01865 278 254; e-mail: administrator@arch.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/schoolarch/index.phtml
Classics Research Projects
Beazley Archive
| Mr I. Hiley |
Dr Donna C. Kurtz |
Dr T. Mannack |
Dr C. Wagner |
Mr G. Parker |
Further information: Beazley Archive, The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 278 083; fax: 01865 278 082; email: enquiries@beazley.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/
Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD)
| Alan K. Bowman | Director (see under Professors) |
Charles V. Crowther, MA, PhD |
Assistant Director |
David Blackman |
SRF |
Catalogue and Database of Greek Inscriptions: Charles V. Crowther
Decipherment of Damaged Inscriptions: Charles V. Crowther
Romano-British Writing Tablets
Imaging Roman Stylus Tablets
Imaging Incised Documents: Prof. Alan K. Bowman, Prof. J.M. Brady, Dr Roger Tomlin
The Vindolanda Writing Tablets: Myrto Malouta
A New Edition of Post-403 BC Athenian Inscriptions: Prof. Alan K. Bowman, Dr C.V. Crowther, in conjunction with Liverpool University.
Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World: Prof. Alan K. Bowman, Dr C.V. Crowther, Ms M. Sasanow, Dr Myrto Malouta, Dr Ida Toth.
Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 288 180; email: csad@classics.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk
Economy of the Roman Empire (OXREP)
Alan K. Bowman, MA, PhD (Tor), FBA |
Andrew I. Wilson, MA, DPhil |
Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 288 180
Lexicon of Greek Personal Names
| Elaine Matthews, MA, DPhil |
Thomas Corsten, DPhil |
Edouard Chiricat |
Richard Catling, MA |
Fabienne Marchand, MA (Neuchâtel |
Jean Sébastian Balzat |
Further information: Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. E-mail: lgpn@classics.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk
Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
| P.G. McC. Brown |
Prof. Edith Hall, (RHUL) |
Dr Fiona Macintosh |
Dr. Scott Scullion |
Ms Amanda Wrigley |
Prof. Oliver Taplin |
Dr P. Michelakis (University of Bristol) |
Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 288 210; fax: 01865 288 386; email: apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/apgrd
Medieval Latin Dictionary
| Theodore Christchev |
Carolinne White, MA, DPhil |
Pamela Armstrong, MA |
Prydwyn Piper |
David R. Howlett, MA, DPhil |
Shelagh A. Sneddon, MA, PhD |
Further Information: Room 302, Clarendon Building, Bodleian Library, Oxford, OX1 3BG. Tel: 01865 277 228; fax: 01865 277 229; email: david.howlett@bodley.ox.ac.uk.
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
| Dirk Obbink, MA, PhD | Director |
Peter J. Parsons, MA, FBA |
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Daniela Colomo, DPhil |
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Further Information: Papyrology Room, Sackler Library, 1 St John St, Oxford, OX1 2LG. Tel: 01865 278 095; email: poxyinfo@classics.ox.ac.uk
Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period
| Dr V. Heuchert |
Chris Howgego, MA, DPhil |
Further Information: Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, OX1 2PH. Tel: 01865 278 063; fax: 01865 278 057; e-mail: chris.howgego@ashmus.ox.ac.uk.
Roman Inscriptions of Britain III
| Roger S.O. Tomlin, MA, DPhil, FSA |
Further Information: Wolfson College, Oxford, OX2 6UD. Tel: 01865 274 100; fax: 01865 274 125; e-mail: roger.tomlin@wolfson.ox.ac.uk.
Imaging Papyri/Herculaneum Society
| Dr D. Obbink, MA, PhD |
Spiro Vranjes, MSc (Oxford Brookes) |
Further Information: Papyrology Room, Sackler Library, 1 St John St, Oxford, OX1 2LG. Tel: 01865 278 095; e-mail: poxyinfo@classics.ox.ac.uk; web page: http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk
The Sphakia Survey Project
| Ms L. Nixon |
Simon R.F. Price, MA, DPhil |
Further Information: Magdalen College, Oxford, OX1 4AU. Tel: 01865 276 117; web page: http://www.sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk
Further information:
Further information: The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU. Tel: 01865 288 391; email: enquiries@classics.ox.ac.uk. Contact details for academic staff can also be found at http://www.ox.ac.uk/applications/contact_search/
Last updated November 2010