Congratulations to Maxwell Stocker

Congratulations to Maxwell Stocker, who successfully defended his PhD recently. Maxwell’s thesis, entitled Egypt and the Odyssey: Homeric Dialogues with Egyptian Travel Literature, is the first systematic study of the as-yet unexplored cross-cultural relationship between the Odyssey and the Egyptian tradition of travel poetry from the Middle and Late Bronze Age.  The thesis presents a comparative exploration of portrayals of…

Congratulations to Sanne Van Den Berg

Congratulations to Sanne Van Den Berg, who defended her PhD thesis on “Narratives of Death in Tacitus’ Annals” successfully and was approved with no corrections. By focusing attention on a wide range of death scenes – from murders to suicides – she shed new light on the political dynamics of the text. Her study has…

Congratulations to Pablo González Rojas

Congratulations to Pablo González Rojas, who successfuly defended his PhD. Pablo’s dissertation, Tacitus and the Representation of the Legal World in the Annals, is the first systematic study of the Roman historian Tacitus’ representation of the law in his Annals. Building on the recent growth of ‘law and literature’ approaches to English literature and Latin poetry, Pablo…

Congratulations to Carolyn La Rocco

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Congratulations to Pawel Borowski

Congratulations to Pawel Borowski, who successfully defended his PhD and passed without corrections.  Pawel’s thesis Civic Communities as Actors in the Western Roman Empire from Augustus to Diocletian highlights the importance of civic communities (civitates) – largely autonomous polities with state-like attributes – in the Western Roman Empire, combining the study of inscriptions with an analytical framework drawing on the…

Congratulations to Tiancheng Wang

Congratulations to Tiancheng Wang, who successfully completed his MPhil this summer. His thesis is entitled “Roman Naming Conventions in Late Republican and Early Imperial Prose”. Tiancheng’s research offered, based on the analysis of hundreds of passages, original insight into naming conventions and their social, cultural and narrative significance in Latin texts of the late Republic…