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

1000-1 B.C.

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]

Douglass W. Bailey (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Sen. Lect. in Archaeol., Head of Archaeol. (Eur. Prehist.) [Modern, ancient & prehistoric E. Europe]

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.)

Dominic Berry (Dept. of Classics - University of Edinburgh) Sen. Lect. [Cicero; Roman history; numismatics]

Edward H. Bispham (Brasenose College - University of Oxford) University Lecturer (Inter-Collegiate) (Roman History)

William Bowden (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Lect. in Archaeol. [Roman empire; Roman & late antique Mediterranean; archaeology of urbanism]

Mark Bradley (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Visual & intellectual culture of Imperial Rome]

Keith Branigan (Dept. of Archaeology & Prehistory - University of Sheffield) Emeritus Prof. [Aegean bronze age; Roman Britain; funerary behaviour; early metallurgy]

David C. Braund (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Exeter) Prof. of Mediterranean & Black Sea Hist. (Hist. of Early Roman Empire)

Robert M. Burns (Dept. of History - University of London: Goldsmiths' College) Lect. in Hist. & Relig. Stud. (Intellectual Hist.) [Concept of God in western culture]

Douglas L. Cairns (Dept. of Classics - University of Edinburgh) Prof., Head of Sch. of Hist. & Classics [Early Greek poetry; Greek society & ethics]

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

J. Brian Campbell (School of Classics & Ancient History - Queen's University, Belfast) Prof. of Roman Hist. [Land survey in the ancient world; Roman army; warfare & society]

Livia Capponi (School of Historical Studies - Newcastle University upon Tyne) Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Roman history; the Jews in the Hellenistic & Roman periods; Egypt; papyrology]

J. Duncan Cloud (School of Archaeology & Ancient History - University of Leicester) University Fellow in Anc. Hist. (Roman Hist.) [Roman criminal law]

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]

John R. Collis (Dept. of Archaeology & Prehistory - University of Sheffield) Emeritus Prof. in Archaeol. [iron age Britain & Europe; the Celts; excavation & methodology]

John D. Creighton (Dept. of Archaeology - University of Reading) Sen. Lect. in Archaeol. (Roman) [iron age & provincial Roman archaeology]

Barrington W. Cunliffe (Keble College - University of Oxford) Prof. of Eur. Archaeol.

Emmanuele Curti (Dept. of History - Birkbeck College, University of London) Lect. in Anc. Hist. & Classical Archaeol. [Hellenistic & Roman Italy; modern reception of classical past]

Peter S. Derow (Wadham College - University of Oxford) University Lecturer (Inter-Collegiate)

Timothy E. Duff (Dept. of Classics - University of Reading) Reader in Classics [Plutarch's Lives; Greek & Roman historiography]

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

Richard J. Evans (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Lect. in Anc. Hist. (Roman Hist.) [Roman history; Syracuse]

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]

Peter D.A. Garnsey (Jesus College - University of Cambridge) Prof. of the Hist. of Classical Antiquity (Anc. Hist.)

Mark J. Geller (Dept. of Hebrew & Jewish Studies - University College, University of London) Jewish Chronicle Prof. of Jewish Stud.

David W.J. Gill (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Wales, Swansea) Sen. Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Luxury in ancient world]

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]

Lucy H. Grig (Dept. of Classics - University of Edinburgh) Lect. [Late antiquity; early Christianity]

Paul L.J. Halstead (Dept. of Archaeology & Prehistory - University of Sheffield) Reader in Archaeol. [Neolithic & bronze age Greece; archaeozoology; ethnoarchaeology of Mediterranean farming]

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]

Dennis W. Harding (Archaeology - University of Edinburgh) Abercromby Prof. of Archaeol. [Later prehistory of Atlantic Scotland]

Ian P. Haynes (Dept. of History - Birkbeck College, University of London) Lect. in Archaeol. [Culture contact; religion; military communities; Roman Dacia]

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

Keith R. Hopwood (Dept. of Classics - University of Wales, Lampeter) Lect. in Classics [Classical & Byzantine Asia Minor; early Ottoman Turkey; the later Roman empire; crime & criminal law in the Roman empire]

Simon Hornblower (Dept. of History - University College, University of London) Grote Prof. of Anc. Hist. [Classical Greek history & historiography]

Robert G. Hoyland (School of History - University of St. Andrews) Prof. of Mid. E. Stud. [Late antique & early Islamic Middle East; Christian-Muslim-Jewish relations; epigraphy & material culture; formation of Islam]

Paula James (Dept. of Classical Studies - Open University) Sen. Lect. in Classical Stud. [Latin literature & Roman culture]

Richard E. Jones (Dept. of Archaeology - University of Glasgow) Sen. Lect. in Archaeol. [Archaeological science in Scotland & E. Mediterranean]

Glynis E.M. Jones (Dept. of Archaeology & Prehistory - University of Sheffield) Prof. of Archaeol. [Archaeobotany; statistics; biomolecules]

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

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

Lloyd Laing (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Sen. Lect. in Archaeol. (3000 B.C.-1000 A.D. Brit. & Eur.)

Andrew D.E. Lewis (Faculty of Laws - University College, University of London) Prof. of Comparative Legal Hist., Fac. of Laws [Montesquieu's Collectio Juris (for an edition); history of tithes]

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

Lloyd J. Llewellyn-Jones (Dept. of Classics - University of Edinburgh) Lect. [Gender in antiquity; dress; Persia; reception of antiquity in art, drama & film]

Kris Lockyear (Institute of Archaeology - University College, University of London) Lect. [iron age & Roman archaeology & numismatics; nationalism; ethnicity & cultural identity]

Michael Lurie (Dept. of Classics - University of Edinburgh) Lect. [Greek drama; late antiquity; reception of classical world]

David J. Mattingly (School of Archaeology & Ancient History - University of Leicester) Prof. of Roman Archaeol. (Roman, Landscape) [Landscape archaeology; archaeology of Roman empire; Roman farming economy]

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]

Alan D. McWhirr (School of Archaeology & Ancient History - University of Leicester) University Fellow (Roman Brit.) [Roman archaeology; Roman technology & building techniques; urban archaeology]

Lynette G. Mitchell (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Exeter) Lect. in Classics

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

Harold C. Mytum (Dept. of Archaeology - University of York) Reader in Archaeol. [W. Britain & Ireland from later prehistory to early middle ages; churchyards & cemeteries]

Ioana A. Oltean (Dept. of Archaeology - University of Glasgow) Postdoctoral Res. Fellow [Roman archaeology, particularly Roman Dacia; aerial photography]

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]

Jeremy J. Paterson (School of Historical Studies - Newcastle University upon Tyne) Sen. Lect. in Anc. Hist. [Roman wine trade; early Christian attitudes to power]

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]

Andrew G. Poulter (Dept. of Classical & Archaeological Studies - University of Nottingham) Prof. of Archaeol. (500 B.C.-500 A.D. Roman)

Katharine B. Pretty (Homerton College - University of Cambridge) [Archaeology & history of N.W. Europe, esp. early Christian; Vikings]

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]

N. Boris Rankov (Dept. of Classics - Royal Holloway, University of London) Prof. of Anc. Hist. (Roman) [Praetorian guard; Athenian trireme]

Tom C.B. Rasmussen (Dept. of History of Art - University of Manchester) Sen. Lect. in Hist. of Art (Greek, Roman & Anc. Near E.) [Greek, Roman, Etruscan & Ancient Near Eastern art & architecture]

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]

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]

Brian K. Roberts (Dept. of Geography - University of Durham) Reader in Geog. [Historical geography of rural settlement, prehistory to present]

Ulrike Roth (Dept. of Classics - University of Edinburgh) Lect. [Roman republican history; ancient slavery; gender in history]

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]

Niall M. Sharples (School of History & Archaeology - Cardiff University) Sen. Lect. in Archaeol. (Iron Age Brit. & Eur.) [Brochs; hillforts; chambered tombs; history of archaeology]

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

Barrie Smith (History Subject Group - University of Teesside) Sen. Lect. (Hist. of Ideas) [Ancient Greece; early Christianity]

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

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

P. Ellis Tinios (School of History - University of Leeds) Hon. Lect. in Hist. (China, Japan) [Historiography in early imperial China; popular culture in early modern Japan]

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]

Peter M. Warner (Homerton College - University of Cambridge) (Archaeol. & Med. Hist., 17th c. East Anglia) [Landscape archaeology; origins of the shire; Suffolk]

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]

John M. Wilkins (Dept. of Classics & Ancient History - University of Exeter) Prof. of Greek Culture (Anc. Greek Hist.)

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

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]

Alison W. Yarrington (Dept. of History of Art - University of Glasgow) Richmond Prof. of Fine Art [Sculpture, c.1750-1914; British art, 18th-19th c.]

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