Archaeology and Ancient History

Current Research Students

Name Project Title Email
Abigail Ford Hallowed Objects: the boundaries between magic and religion in Scotland c. AD 1200-1700 af356@le.ac.uk
Alex Hirons Biomolecular archaeology of the ageing body; a multi-omics analysis of age-at-death & geriatric disease ajh120@le.ac.uk
Amy Arden Celestial Motherhood: Understanding the cultural context of gender and motherhood in ancient Greece through archaeoastronomy and constellation mythology ala23@le.ac.uk
Andrew Thompson The Duke of Bedford's Tavistock Estate from 'Improvement' to World Heritage Site amt36@le.ac.uk
Andy Rogers Ontologies of Personhood and the Body in Colonial Central America and the Caribbean  ajr64@le.ac.uk
Anni Byard The Iron Age to Roman transition in Britain from the perspective of Coin Hoards  abc53@le.ac.uk
Bernard Guinan The Prehistoric Settlement Landscapes of Mayo: The Evidence and Impact of Development Led Archaeology  bg116@le.ac.uk 
Bianca Miranda Cardoso
A Bank of Bones: Mortuary practices and ethnicity in Hellenistic Anatolia  bmc17@le.ac.uk
Brad Marshall Gendered and social status disparities in the physical and cultural lifeways of children in Iron and Viking Age Scandinavia
bpm4@le.ac.uk 
Brodhie Molloy Stories4Cities: An investigation into the utility of archaeology, as a knowledge producing discipline, in the re-representation and inclusion of those experiencing homelessness  bmim2@le.ac.uk
Chris Edley  Nucleated Settlements in Roman Britain  cre12@le.ac.uk
Christine Downton  Model Citizens: the iconography of excellence in Athenian Art, c.550-350 BC  cad38@le.ac.uk 
Clinton Briar An Appropriation of An: A ‘Theography’ of An/Anu from the Uruk through the Seleucid Period of Mesopotamian History  ckb15@le.ac.uk 
Dane Magoon  The People of Mussel and Shell: An Isotopic Investigation of Palaeodiet and Mobility at the Hatch Site (44PG0051) during the Late Woodland I Period (AD 900 to 1300)  dm366@le.ac.uk 
David Cardona Landscapes of death and commemoration: burial space, place and evolution from Phoenician to late Roman Malta dc332@le.ac.uk 
Elisabeth Aslesen  Bodied Objects: Personhood and imagery on clothed objects form Nrway in the first millennium CE  ea338@le.ac.uk 
Elisabeth Janovsky  Cultural interaction, artistic progress and leisure culture: an object biographical approach to Roman decorated gaming couinters  ejkj1@le.ac.uk 
Elliot Elliott  Defining the prevalence of leprosy in peri-domestic animals using osteoarchaeology  ke90@le.ac.uk
Emily Drummond  Water Management and Cultic Practices in the Roman Empire  eld26@le.ac.uk
Emma Stockley Predicting and Protecting Lithic Landscapes
evs13@le.ac.uk 
Giulia Bison  Metals, craft products and urban economy in late antique Rome  gb276@le.ac.uk 
Gord Macdonald  Impacts of Global Climate Change on Polar Heritage; Documentation and Assessment of Imperilled Polar Heritage Sites  ghm7@le.ac.uk 
Hannah McQuail  Innovative Use of Earth Observation for Archaeological Discovery from Space  hem19@le.ac.uk 
Jeff Spanbauer  Seeking Britishness: An Archaeologically Informed Social History of the Garrison of Fort de Chartres, 1765-1772  jas112@le.ac.uk
Jodie Hannis Creative Interventions in Archaeology: Experiments in Facilitating Public Engagement with Archaeological Research in the UK  jh720@le.ac.uk 
Jonny Graham  From regional identities to assemblages of difference: rethinking the communities of Late Neolithic Britain  jag62@le.ac.uk 
Joshua Charles Dressing for Adventure on the West Florida Frontier  jc730@le.ac.uk 
Judith Margarita López Aceves Drug cultures and wellbeing: Investigating drug use in the precolonial Caribbean  jmla3@le.ac.uk
Kai Francis  The role of pirates and piracy in the invention of the Pax Romana (67BCE - 180 CE)  kaf23@le.ac.uk 
Katarina Kompauerova  Bringing ancient disabilities and the emotions associated with them to the present-day disabled people – ‘Their own stories in the past’  kk4550@le.ac.uk
Kirstie Hartlett  Castle Typologies, Landscape and Settlement: Interrogating the Derbyshire Resource  keh40@le.ac.uk 
Kirsty Henson  Biocultural effects on ancient vitamin D deficiency in the United States and their role in spinal pathology  kdh9@le.ac.uk 
Margherita Riso  Rural Christianity in Late Antique and Byzantine Sicily, 5th-9th centuries AD: an archaeological and textual analysis  mr372@le.ac.uk 
Matthew Selheimer  Life at the Cross-roads: How street intersections shaped Roman socio-spatial experience  mds27@le.ac.uk
Meg Gaillard  While I Breathe, I Hope: Heritage at Risk within the Southeastern United States, South Carolina as a Case Study  mcg35@le.ac.uk
Michael Curtis  Imperial ports and harbours of Crete: the development of a Provincial maritime and coastal infrastructure (late 1st BCE - 3rd century CE)  mjc100@le.ac.uk
Mikel Herran Subinas  Gender, social change and religion: Islamicisation and the transforming lives of women in Early Medieval Iberia  mhs18@le.ac.uk
Nathan Gubbins  Why did people bury things? Understanding changing practices of deposition from the Late Neolithic through the Bronze Age  nmg12@le.ac.uk
Nick Cooper    
Panagiotis Koutsouris  The Mastos and the Berbati Valley: An exploratory research on transportation routes and polity organization, during the LHIIIA2- B1  pk257@le.ac.uk
Paul Duffy  From Stones to Structures – the Lost Architecture of Medieval Dublin  pd207@le.ac.uk
Rachel Small  Food, identity and humoral theory in early modern England: a case study from Leicestershire  rs523@le.ac.uk
Rebecca Kibble  Using open source GIS to enable the multiscalar, spatio-temporal analysis and visualisation of complex zoo-archaeological datasets  rek13@le.ac.uk 
Renate Larssen  Living with humans: how animals shaped early medieval Northern Europe (400-1100 CE)  rl334@le.ac.uk
Rupert Birtwistle  The Lower to Middle Palaeolithic Transition in Azerbaijan: Technology and Migration of Later Acheulean Populations  rjb87@le.ac.uk
Sahal Abdi  Creating Rural Settlements: New Perspectives on Roman Imperialism, Ontogenesis and Processualism in Britain  sa881@le.ac.uk
Sima Yadollahy  Agency and its relation with Social, Cognitive complexities in Cheshmeh Ali culture  sy208@le.ac.uk
Tamar Miller  Relic Veneration in Italy: A phenomenological study of martyrial culture and its influence on Early Christian sites  tlm20@le.ac.uk
Tofie Benson   Parental Expectations  aob21@le.ac.uk
Vasiliki Louka  The violent truth: A comparative, long-term study of collective violence from armed conflicts in Europe vl72@le.ac.uk
Victoria Szafara  ‘Paired’ Brooches in Roman Britain: Their Context and Distribution  vs206@le.ac.uk
Willem Baetsen  The future up in smoke: The effects of tobacco use on population health in England and the Netherlands in the 16th-19th centuries  wab11@le.ac.uk
Yvonne O'Dell  Ontologies of Affect: Exploring emotional encounters and transformations in the Caribbean  yvod2@le.ac.uk
Zoe Schofield In Search of the Decorator: The Analysis of Roman Wall Decoration through the Study of Roman Decorative Borders in Herculaneum, Pompeii and Stabiae  zs177@le.ac.uk
Zoe Tomlinson  A re-evaluation of Romano-British painted wall plaster across the East Midlands, to understand the contemporary purpose and meaning of different painted schemes to both patrons and viewers, with a particular focus on the Roman colour palette  zt44@le.ac.uk
Zoltán Pallag  The Roman Picnic in Late Antiquity  zp56@le.ac.uk

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