Teachers of History in the Universities of the UK 2007 - listed by research interest

Ancient history

Richard Alston (Dept. of Classics - Royal Holloway, University of London) Prof. of Anc. Hist. (Roman Empire) [Urbanisation & cultural change in Roman Egypt]

Ralph Anderson (Dept. of Ancient History - University of St. Andrews) Teaching Fellow in Anc. Hist. [Greek religion; anthropological theories of religion & ritual]

Robert G. Arnott (Centre for History of Medicine - University of Birmingham) Reader & Director, Centre for the Hist. of Medicine [Ancient medicine, esp. Aegean bronze age, Hittite & Greek]

Judith M. Barringer (Dept. of Classics - University of Edinburgh) Reader [Greek sculpture & vase painting; Greek mythology & religion]

Mary Beagon (Dept. of History - University of Manchester) Lect. in Anc. Hist. (Roman) [The elder Pliny; ancient attitudes to nature]

W. Mary Beard (Newnham College, Fac. of Classics - University of Cambridge) Prof. in Classics (Roman Hist.)

Averil M. Cameron (Keble College - University of Oxford) (Byz. Stud.)

Neil J. Christie (School of Archaeology & Ancient History - Leicester) Reader in Archaeol. (Late Roman & Med. Italy) [Barbarian Europe; late Roman-early medieval Italy]

Katherine J. Clarke (St. Hilda's College - University of Oxford) University Lecturer (Inter-Collegiate) (Hellenistic & Roman Hist.) [Ancient geography; historiography]

A. Simon Esmonde Cleary (School of Historical Studies - University of Birmingham) Sen. Lect. [Roman provincial archaeology; late antiquity; urban archaeology]

Janet Coleman (Dept. of Government - London School of Economics, University of London) Prof. of Anc. & Med. Pol. Thought [Ancient, medieval & Renaissance political history; pre-modern theories of state & church]

Kate Cooper (Dept. of Religions & Theology - University of Manchester) Sen. Lect. in Eccles. Hist. (Early Church) [Late antiquity: gender; rise of Christianity; pagans & Christians]

Serafina Cuomo (Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine - London: Imperial College) Lect. in Hist. of Sc. & Tech. [Ancient mathematics, science & technology]

Andrew W. Erskine (Dept. of Classics - University of Edinburgh) Reader [Hellenistic history; Roman imperialism; political thought, esp. Stoicism]

Nicholas R.E. Fisher (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Prof. in Anc. Hist. (Greece) [Law, violence, gender & politics in 5th-4th c. B.C. Athens]

Robin J. Lane Fox (New College - University of Oxford) Reader in Anc. Hist.

Michael G. Fulford (Dept. of Archaeology - University of Reading) Prof. of Archaeol. (Roman) [Roman Britain; economy of Roman empire; Pompeii]

Jane F. Gardner (Dept. of Classics - University of Reading) Emeritus Prof. of Anc. Hist. [Roman family law]

Kate M. Gilliver (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Lect. in Anc. Hist. (Rome) [Roman warfare; atrocities in Roman warfare]

Abigail Graham (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Warwick) Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Greek & Roman epigraphy; urbanism]

William S. Hanson (Dept. of Archaeology - University of Glasgow) Prof. of Roman Archaeol. [Impact of Roman occupation on frontier provinces of Roman empire; aerial archaeology]

Julian Henderson (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Prof. of Archaeol. (Med.) [Early medieval European & early Islamic technology]

Alan W. Johnston (Institute of Archaeology - University College, University of London) Reader in Classical Archaeol. [Archaeology of archaic Greek world; Greek epigraphy & coinage]

Helen King (Dept. of Classics - University of Reading) Prof. of Classical Medicine (Hist. of Medicine) [History of medicine; gender]

Anthony C. King (History & Archaeology Subject Areas - University of Winchester) Assoc. Dean, Prof. (Roman Hist.) [Ancient diet; Romano-Celtic religion]

Andreas Kropp (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Lect. in Classical Art

M. Anthony Leahy (School of Historical Studies - University of Birmingham) Sen. Lect. in Egyptology [Egyptology: language, history, religion & archaeology; Egypt in 1st millennium B.C.]

Sian Lewis (Dept. of Ancient History - University of St. Andrews) Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Greek political & social history; Greek vase painting]

Roger J. Ling (Dept. of Archaeology - University of Manchester) Prof. of Classical Art & Archaeol. [Roman Britain; Pompeii; mosaics]

Alan B. Lloyd (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Wales, Swansea) Prof. of Anc. Hist. [Pharaonic Egypt; Egyptology; Herodotus; ancient warfare]

Katharina Lorenz (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Lect. in Classical Art [Graeco-Roman art & society]

Simon T. Loseby (Dept. of History - University of Sheffield) Lect. in Hist. (Early Med.) [Towns; trade; Franks; the Mediterranean; Gregory of Tours]

Valerie A. Maxfield (Department of Archaeology - University of Exeter) Prof. of Roman Archaeol. (Army & Frontiers) [The Roman army & frontiers of the Roman empire; Roman Egypt]

Niall McKeown (School of Historical Studies - University of Birmingham) Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Greek & Roman social history]

Christopher B.E. Mee (School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology - University of Liverpool) Charles W. Jones Prof. in Anc. Hist. & Classical Archaeol. [Aegean & Greek archaeology]

John B. Mitchell (School of World Art Studies & Museology - University of East Anglia) Reader in Hist. of Art [Art, architecture & material culture of early medieval Europe]

Neville D.G. Morley (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Bristol) Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Ancient economy; city of Rome; historiography]

Ian S. Moxon (School of History - University of Leeds) Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Evaluation of Rimbertus' biography of Anskar as evidence for history]

Zahra Newby (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Warwick) Sen. Lect. in Classics [Classical art; Greek athletics; Roman art & the interplay between art & literature]

Paul T. Nicholson (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Sen. Lect. in Archaeol. (Scientific Archaeol., Egyptology) [Ancient Egypt; faience & glass]

Daniel Ogden (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Exeter) Reader in Anc. Hist. [Greek social history]

John B. Onians (School of World Art Studies & Museology - University of East Anglia) Prof. of Visual Art [Classical art & Renaissance architecture; biological basis of artistic activity]

Edwin J. Owens (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Wales, Swansea) Sen. Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Town planning & urban life in antiquity; Roman republican history; Roman Britain]

James H. Pardoe (Dept. of History & Archaeology - University of Chester) Sen. Lect. (Landscape Hist., Heritage Management, 20th-c. Int. Hist.) [Architecture; heritage studies; museology]

Sarah J.K. Pearce (Dept. of History - University of Southampton) Ian Karten Sen. Lect. in Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations [Graeco-Roman period Jewish history & literature; Philo of Alexandria]

Edgar J. Peltenburg (Archaeology - University of Edinburgh) Prof. of Archaeol. (Near E.) [Later bronze & iron ages of Cyprus & the Near East]

Tessa Rajak (Dept. of Classics - University of Reading) Prof. of Anc. Hist. [Judaism & Christianity in Greek & Roman world]

Ian B.M. Ralston (Archaeology - University of Edinburgh) Prof. of Archaeol. (Prehistoric Eur.) [iron age France; Scottish archaeology]

Louis P. Rawlings (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Lect. in Anc. Hist. (Greece) [Ethos, warfare & society of chiefdoms in Graeco-Roman world; oral tradition]

Anne E. Redgate (School of Historical Studies - Newcastle University) Lect. in Hist. (Anglo-Saxon Eng., Early Med. Eur., Armenian Hist.) [Heresy; ethnicity; comparative history]

John W. Rich (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Reader in Classical Stud. (8th c. B.C.-5th c. A.D. Roman) [Roman history; ancient warfare & international relations]

John C. Richards (Dept. of History of Art - University of Glasgow) Sen. Lect. in Hist. of Art [Humanism & visual arts in Italian trecento]

Tracey Rihll (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Wales, Swansea) Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Greek history; ancient science & technology]

Alexander Samely (School of Languages, Linguistics & Cultures - University of Manchester) Sen. Lect. in Hebrew & Jewish Stud. (Jewish Hist.) [Talmudic literature; Hebrew manuscripts]

Robin J. Seager (School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology - University of Liverpool) Reader in Anc. Hist. [5th-4th c. B.C. Greek history; 2nd-1st c. Roman history; Constantine & Ammianus]

Gareth M. Sears (Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity - University of Birmingham) Lect. in Roman Hist. [North Africa in antiquity; later Roman history & archaeology; Christian archaeology]

D. Graham J. Shipley (School of Archaeology & Ancient History - Leicester) Prof. of Anc. Hist. (Greek & Roman) [Sparta; landscapes; Hellenistic history]

Kirsty M.W. Shipton (School of Archaeology & Ancient History - Leicester) University Fellow (Greek & Roman) [Cash economy of ancient Athens; social configuration of Athenian wealth]

Christopher J. Smith (Dept. of Ancient History & Church History - University of St. Andrews) Prof. of Anc. Hist. (Archaic Greece, Early Rome) [Early & Republican Italy; Archaic Greece]

Anthony J.S. Spawforth (School of Historical Studies - Newcastle University) Prof. of Anc. Hist.

Charles W. Stewart (Dept. of History - University College, University of London) Reader in Anthr. (Greece) [Dreams in Greece]

Stephen Todd (Dept. of Classics - University of Manchester) Prof. of Anc. Hist. [Greek social & legal history; Attic orators, esp. Lysias]

Shaun F. Tougher (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Lect. in Anc. Hist. (Greece, Rome, Byzantium) [Leo VI; eunuchs in antiquity]

Christopher J. Tuplin (School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology - University of Liverpool) Reader in Anc. Hist. & Classical Archaeol. [Achaemenid Persian empire; Xenophon]

Henrietta C. (Riet) van Bremen (Dept. of History - University College, University of London) Sen. Lect. in Anc. Hist. (Greek World) [Hellenistic & Roman Asia Minor]

Hans van Wees (Dept. of History - University College, University of London) Prof. of Anc. Hist. (Greece) [Early Greek society & economy; Homer; Greek warfare]

Kenneth A. Wardle (School of Historical Studies - University of Birmingham) Sen. Lect. in Anc. Hist. & Archaeol. [Classical archaeology; Greek prehistory; prehistoric Macedonia]

Ruth C. Westgate (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Lect. in Anc. Greek Hist. & Archaeol. (Anc. Greece) [Domestic architecture & decoration; Greek mosaics]

L. Michael Whitby (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Warwick) Prof. of Anc. Hist. [Social & religious history of the late Roman periods, Alexander & 4th c. Athens]

A. James M. Whitley (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Reader in Archaeol., Director, British Sch. at Athens (Greek Archaeol.) [Literacy; Crete & Greece in Archaic period; art & narrative; hero cults]

Richard I. Winton (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Lect. in Classical Stud. (10th-3rd c. B.C. Greek) [Thucydides]

T. Peter Wiseman (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Exeter) Prof. of Classics (Hist. of Late Roman Republic) [Roman republican history & mythology]

Ian N. Wood (School of History - University of Leeds) Prof. of Early Med. Hist. (Med.) [Missionary hagiography; transformation of the Roman world]

Gregory D. Woolf (Dept. of Ancient History & Church History - University of St. Andrews) Prof. of Anc. Hist. [Cultural history of the Roman empire; ancient economic & social history; Roman provincial archaeology; Roman Gaul]

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