Archaeology and Ancient History
Academic staff
Head of School
| Name | Position | Research and PhD supervision areas | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth Young | Head of School, Professor of Archaeology | Archaeology of South Asia and Middle East, particularly historical periods; Post-Conflict Archaeology and Heritage | rly3@le.ac.uk |
Academic staff
| Name | Position | Research and PhD supervision areas | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jo Appleby | Associate Professor of Human Bioarchaeology | Human osteology; funerary archaeology; Bronze Age Britain and Europe; archaeology of the body | ja253@le.ac.uk |
| 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 | hjb15@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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | jlth1@le.ac.uk |
| Ben Jervis | Professor of Medieval Archaeology | Medieval archaeology; material culture; urban archaeology; archaeological theory | bpj4@le.ac.uk |
| Jack Lennon | Associate Professor of Ancient History | Roman religion, ritual and magic; Roman cultural history; political landscape of 1st century BC | jjpl1@le.ac.uk |
| Carmen Martín-Ramos |
Teaching Fellow in Early Prehistory & Human Evolution | Human evolution and Palaeoanthropology, Lithic Studies, Material Culture, Artefact Analysis and Technology, Cultural Evolution, Geoarchaeology, Landscape Archaeology and Geomatics, African Archaeology, Experimental Archaeology | cmr34@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 | Associate Professor of 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 |
| 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 |