Doctoral researchers
The Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below:
- PhD title
- Degenerative arenas: an examination of the perceived negative influence of spectacular entertainments in the arenas of Ancient Rome and young adult dystopian literature of the Twenty-First century.
- Supervisors
- Dr Elena Theodorakopoulos and Dr Gideon Nisbet
- PhD title
- "Free the trunk of the great oak from all that still spoils it": Demolition, Displacement, and Monumentality in Augustan and Fascist Rome
- Supervisors
- Professor Diana Spencer and Dr Lloyd Jenkins
- PhD title
- Prehistoric Pots, Peoples and Personhood; Exploring the Role of Ceramics in the Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Communities of the East Baltic
- Supervisors
- Paul Garwood and Dr David Smith
- PhD title
- Mortuary Practices of the British Beaker People: an osteological assessment of bacterial diagenesis in bone tissue microstructure to investigate postmortem burial treatments using Micro-CT
- Supervisors
- Paul Garwood and Professor Sam Giles
- PhD title
- Alteration to existing mortuary spaces and additional burials during the Old Kingdom through early Middle Kingdom (c.2686–c.1991 BCE).
- Supervisor
- Dr Leire Olabarria
- PhD title
- An Exploration of the Virgilian Structure of the Aeneid and its Re-use in a Seiection of Earky Gunpowder Epics and Biblical Epic
- Supervisors
- Dr Philip Burton and Dr Jonathan Willis
- PhD title
- Agents of Divinity in Mesopotamian Incantation Texts (2300-1600 BCE)
- PhD title
- Ancient Egyptian wooden funerary figures in UK collections as a reflection of societal shifts from the end of the Old Kingdom to the Late Middle Kingdom (2350-1802 BCE).
- Supervisors
- Dr Leire Olabarria and Professor Henry Chapman
