Congratulations to Carolyn La Rocco, who successfully defended her viva on 15 February! Carolyn’s dissertation, “The ‘Christianisation’ of the Iberian Peninsula: Christian Space Creation by Late Roman and Visigothic Elites from the Fourth to the Eighth Century CE” analysed the Christianisation of the peninsula by focusing on the creation of Christian spaces over a long…
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Congratulations to Oliver Gerlach
Congratulations to Oliver Gerlach, who successfully completed his PhD. In ‘Birth, Death, and Rebirth in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and Paraphrase’ Ollie demonstrates the enormous rewards of reading against each other two texts which although by the same author have tended to be considered in isolation from each other. Nonnus of Panopolis dates to the 5th century…
Congratulations to Alastair Lumsden
Congratulations to Alastair Lumsden on the outcome of his PhD examination! Alastair’s thesis explored Cisalpine masculinity and warfare over the period c. 400-50 BC by skilfully combining literary, iconographic and artefactual evidence with new sociological models. A statistical analysis was undertaken of the composition of weapon burials from the largest and best-documented Gallic necropoleis in Cispadane and Transpadane Gaul. This employed…
Visualising Forced Migration
A research project and art exhibition Directed by Dr Alice König, the ‘Visualising Forced Migration’ project asks a question of great contemporary importance: how can we understand what it is like to be displaced from one’s home by conflict? Through a range of historic and 21st-century stories, we amplify the voices of people who have…
Classics seminar series: Spring 2023
The School of Classics seminar series starts on 20 January, with a paper by Anna Judson (Durham). Research seminars take place on Fridays at 4:15 pm or Wednesdays at 2:15 pm. Papers last between 45 and 60 minutes and are followed by discussion. This semester’s seminars include a mix of in-person and online speakers. Everyone…
STALOS graduation
Today 21 Monifieth High School pupils are visiting the School of Classics, University of St Andrews, for a gala lunch and to receive their certificates on the successful completion of their Latin studies. This is our first STALOS (St Andrews Latin Outreach Scheme) graduation ceremony. We are equally proud of our courageous graduands and the…
Lecturer in Latin Literature
We wish to appoint a Lecturer in Latin Literature within the School of Classics. The successful candidate will be a scholar with a growing international research reputation in Classics, with the expertise to deliver high-quality teaching in Latin Literature and Classical Studies. We are open to appointing in any area of Latin literature and language,…
Congratulations to Chloe Borowska
Chloe Borowska (Bray) has been appointed to a permanent lectureship in the Department of Classics at Otago. Chloe completed her PhD at St Andrews in 2020 (entitled ‘Interrogating liminality: threatening landscapes in fifth-century Greek tragedy’). At Otago she will be teaching Greek myth, language and literature, and continuing her research on human interactions with the…
Congratulations to Consuelo Martino
We’re thrilled to announce that former PhD student Consuelo Martino has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, to start at the University of Edinburgh in May 2023. She’ll be working on an exciting new project called ‘Civil War and cultural trauma: rethinking the beginning of the Roman Empire’, which seeks to radically change…
Congratulations to Bart Danon
We are delighted to share the news that Dr Bart Danon, a recent PhD student at the School of Classics, has been appointed Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the University of Groningen. Bart completed his PhD on the distribution of wealth in the Roman empire in April 2021. Bart’s new publication, The Uncertain Past,…
The Folds of Olympus
Jason König‘s book The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek and Roman Culture was published recently by Princeton University Press. The book is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role mountains played in Greek and Roman religious, military, and economic life, as well as in the identity of communities over a…
Congratulations to Giorgos Mouratidis
We are delighted to share the news that Dr Giorgos Mouratidis, a recent PhD student at the School of Classics, has been appointed Assistant Director of the British School at Athens. Giorgos completed his PhD on athletes and cities between the late Hellenistic and the imperial periods in 2020. He will bring his fantastic knowledge…
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