Find a research supervisor in religion and ritual In 'Staff' StaffStaff by research area Back to 'Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology' Staff in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology who supervise PhD/MA by Research in the area of religion and ritual. Dr Philip Burton Reader in Latin and Early Christian Studies Language and linguistics, early Christianity and the wider Graeco-Roman literature and thought; reception of the classical world, especially in English fiction of the twentieth century Paul Garwood Senior Lecturer in Prehistory Funerary archaeology, ritual, landscape, and material culture Dr Leire Olabarria Associate Professor in Egyptology I am an Associate Professor in Egyptology with an interest in the application of social and cultural anthropology to the study of ancient Egypt. My work focuses on kinship and marriage in the Middle Kingdom and on the social construction of monumental spaces. I am also a field archaeologist and have been working at the site of Dayr el-Barsha in Middle Egypt since 2012. Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology staff research supervision areas Byzantine, Ottoman and modern Greek studies Egyptology Heritage History, literature and culture of Classical and Hellenistic Greece History, literature and culture of the Late Republic and Early Empire History of rhetoric Inter-state religion in the Ancient World Mortuary and Funerary Archaeology Prehistoric and early historic Europe Reception of the Ancient World Religion and ritual Urbanism and the ancient city Wetland archaeology and environments of Northwest Europe
Dr Philip Burton Reader in Latin and Early Christian Studies Language and linguistics, early Christianity and the wider Graeco-Roman literature and thought; reception of the classical world, especially in English fiction of the twentieth century
Paul Garwood Senior Lecturer in Prehistory Funerary archaeology, ritual, landscape, and material culture
Dr Leire Olabarria Associate Professor in Egyptology I am an Associate Professor in Egyptology with an interest in the application of social and cultural anthropology to the study of ancient Egypt. My work focuses on kinship and marriage in the Middle Kingdom and on the social construction of monumental spaces. I am also a field archaeologist and have been working at the site of Dayr el-Barsha in Middle Egypt since 2012.