Archaeology and Ancient History

Academic staff

Head of School

Name Position Research and PhD supervision areas  Email
Huw Barton Head of School, Professor in Bioarchaeology Ancient starch analysis; organic residue analysis; microwear; technological analysis of stone and organic tools; South-East Asian and Australian archaeology; hunter-gatherer archaeology and ethnography 

hjb15@le.ac.uk

saahheadofschool@le.ac.uk

Academic Staff

Name Position Research and PhD supervision areas  Email
Jo Appleby  Associate Professor of Human Bioarchaeology Human osteology; funerary archaeology; Bronze Age Britain and Europe; archaeology of the body  ja253@le.ac.uk 
Laura Basell Associate Professor of Archaeology  Human evolution (Africa and Europe); African archaeology; prehistoric landscape archaeology; geoarchaeology (including geomatics); macro-scale lithic analyses; experimental archaeology; rock art and mobiliary art  l.basell@le.ac.uk 
Neil Christie  Professor of Archaeology  Late Roman archaeology; early medieval and medieval archaeology; urbanism; defence; late Roman and early medieval Christianity  njc10@le.ac.uk 
Brian Costello Teaching Fellow in Archaeology Medieval archaeology; funerary archaeology; object biography; early medieval material culture; social memory; public education. blc9@le.ac.uk
Rachel Crellin  Associate Professor of Archaeology  Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain; archaeological theory; metalwork wear-analysis; experimental archaeology; material culture studies; prehistoric death and burial; Bronze Age violence  rjc65@le.ac.uk 
David Edwards  Lecturer in Archaeology  Sudanese–Nubian archaeology; Sudanic Africa–trans-Saharan medieval to historical archaeology; landscape archaeology; mortuary archaeologies  dne1@le.ac.uk 
Marianne Hem Eriksen   Associate Professor of Archaeology   Viking Age archaeology; Later prehistory in Northern Europe; archaeologies of architecture, space and place; household archaeology; gender and the body; mortuary archaeology  m.h.eriksen@le.ac.uk 
Kai Francis  Graduate Teaching Assistant    kf161@le.ac.uk 
Oliver Harris  Professor of Archaeology  Archaeological theory; new materialism; gender and the body; Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Northwest Europe

ojth1@le.ac.uk

 
Jan Haywood 
Lecturer in Ancient History 
The Trojan War and its receptions; Greek historiography (especially Herodotus and Xenophon); ancient Greek literary culture; Greek divination and Delphic oracles 
jlth1@le.ac.uk 
Ben Jervis Professor of Medieval Archaeology  Medieval archaeology; material culture; urban archaeology; archaeological theory  bpj4@le.ac.uk
Jack Lennon Lecturer in Ancient History  Roman religion, ritual and magic; Roman cultural history; political landscape of 1st century BC  jjpl1@le.ac.uk 
Jane Masséglia  Associate Professor of Ancient History  Hellenistic social history; status and display in the Greek world; Greek and Latin epigraphy; classical art and archaeology; funerary art; Anatolia; body language and emotions in antiquity  jeam2@le.ac.uk 
David Mattingly  Professor of Roman Archaeology  Roman Britain and Africa; Roman economy; Roman imperialism and identity; Roman landscapes; Saharan archaeology  djm7@le.ac.uk 
Andrew Merrills Professor of Ancient History  Roman, Vandal, and Berber North Africa; ancient geography; Late Antiquity and the early medieval world; the post-Roman successor states of the West  ahm11@le.ac.uk 
Adam Rogers

DL Associate Tutor and Teaching Fellow

  acr16@le.ac.uk
Alice Samson  Lecturer in Archaeology  Indigenous Caribbean archaeology; pre-Columbian and colonial Caribbean; households, settlements and caves; integrated landscapes; material culture; indigenous religion  avms1@le.ac.uk 
Sarah Scott  Professor of Archaeology 

the history of archaeological thought and method; the archaeology and anthropology of art; the history of archaeological publishing; archaeology and ancient history in education; community archaeology; Roman provincial archaeology and art.

sas11@le.ac.uk 
Michaela Senkova Teaching Fellow Ancient social and cultural history, gender, religion, medicine ms1062@le.ac.uk
Graham Shipley Professor of Ancient History  Landscapes, politics and economies of Hellenistic Greece; Hellenistic material culture and society; Greek geographical writings; the Peloponnese  gjs@le.ac.uk 
Dan Stewart Associate Professor of Ancient History  Hellenistic and Roman Greece; urban and rural landscapes; intersection of text and material culture; the Greek East; Roman Crete  ds120@le.ac.uk 
Sarah Tarlow  Professor of Historical Archaeology  Archaeology 1500–1900; historical archaeology of northern Europe; archaeological ethics; archaeology of death and burial  sat12@le.ac.uk 
Jeremy Taylor  Lecturer in Archaeology  Archaeology of later prehistoric and Roman landscapes; archaeology of western Roman provinces; theory and method in landscape research  jt38@le.ac.uk 
Kathryn Tempest Lecturer in Roman History

Roman social, cultural and political history; history and literature in late Republican and early Imperial Rome; ancient oratory and rhetoric, including Cicero.

klt27@le.ac.uk
Richard Thomas Professor of Archaeology  Zooarchaeology; past human–animal relationships; animal palaeopathology; agricultural economy; food as material culture  rmt12@le.ac.uk 
Carmen Ting Lecturer in Archaeological Science

Ancient technologies and the role of crafts in past societies; craft practices and knowledge transmission; archaeological materials science and heritage science.

kyct1@le.ac.uk
Philippa Walton Lecturer in Roman Archaeology

Roman material culture; Roman numismatics; Roman Britain; Roman religion; Roman votive deposition; Roman riverine archaeology

pjw48@le.ac.uk
Selena Wisnom Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East  Assyria and Babylonia; Mesopotamian literature; Mesopotamian religion; Intellectual history of the Ancient Near East  lsw14@le.ac.uk 
Ruth Young Professor of Archaeology  Archaeology of South Asia and Middle East, particularly historical periods; Post-Conflict Archaeology and Heritage  rly3@le.ac.uk 

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