Archaeology and Ancient History

Academic staff

Head of School

Name Position Research and PhD supervision areas Email
Ruth Young Head of School, Professor of Archaeology Archaeology of South Asia and Middle East, particularly historical periods; Post-Conflict Archaeology and Heritage [email protected] [email protected]

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  [email protected] 
Huw Barton 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 [email protected]
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  [email protected] 
Neil Christie  Professor of Archaeology  Late Roman archaeology; early medieval and medieval archaeology; urbanism; defence; late Roman and early medieval Christianity  [email protected] 
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  [email protected] 
Oliver Harris  Professor of Archaeology  Archaeological theory; new materialism; gender and the body; Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Northwest Europe [email protected]
Jan Haywood  Associate Professor of Ancient History  The Trojan War and its receptions; Greek historiography (especially Herodotus and Xenophon); ancient Greek literary culture; Greek divination and Delphic oracles  [email protected] 
Ben Jervis Professor of Medieval Archaeology  Medieval archaeology; material culture; urban archaeology; archaeological theory  [email protected]
Jack Lennon Associate Professor of Ancient History  Roman religion, ritual and magic; Roman cultural history; political landscape of 1st century BC  [email protected] 
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  [email protected] 
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  [email protected] 
 Nikki Rollason Teaching Fellow in Ancient History Clothing in Late Antiquity, alongside the literature and visual culture of the period.  [email protected]
Alice Samson  Associate Professor of Archaeology  Indigenous Caribbean archaeology; pre-Columbian and colonial Caribbean; households, settlements and caves; integrated landscapes; material culture; indigenous religion  [email protected] 
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. [email protected] 
Graham Shipley Professor of Ancient History  Landscapes, politics and economies of Hellenistic Greece; Hellenistic material culture and society; Greek geographical writings; the Peloponnese  [email protected] 
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  [email protected] 
Jeremy Taylor  Lecturer in Archaeology  Archaeology of later prehistoric and Roman landscapes; archaeology of western Roman provinces; theory and method in landscape research  [email protected] 
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. [email protected]
Richard Thomas Professor of Archaeology  Zooarchaeology; past human–animal relationships; animal palaeopathology; agricultural economy; food as material culture  [email protected] 
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. [email protected]
Philippa Walton Lecturer in Roman Archaeology Roman material culture; Roman numismatics; Roman Britain; Roman religion; Roman votive deposition; Roman riverine archaeology [email protected]
Selena Wisnom Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East  Assyria and Babylonia; Mesopotamian literature; Mesopotamian religion; Intellectual history of the Ancient Near East  [email protected] 
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