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…

Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for Rebecca Sweetman

Congratulations to Rebecca Sweetman, who has just been awarded a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship, for a project entitled ‘The Roman and Late Antique Cyclades: Networks, Economy and Religion‘. The fellowship will pay for teaching replacement for two years of research leave from September 2016. The aim of this project is to produce for the…

Laidlaw Undergraduate Internship Programme in Research and Leadership

By Alice Devlin Ancient History and Archaeology fourth year In the summer of 2015, I was lucky enough to spend nine weeks working on an independent and research-focussed internship under the auspices of the Laidlaw Undergraduate Internship Programme in Research and Leadership. With the supervision of Dr Rebecca Sweetman, I devised a methodology and itinerary…

Carnegie grant for Rebecca Sweetman

Congratulations to Rebecca Sweetman, who has been awarded a Carnegie Research Incentive Grant for a project entitled: The Late Antique Cyclades: Landscapes, Networks and Christianization. The aim of the project is to study the location of the late Antique churches in order to understand processes of Christianization in the Cyclades, particularly in terms of network connections within the…

AHRC Fellowship

Rebecca Sweetman has been awarded an AHRC Research Fellowship for 2012 in support of a project on the Christianisation of the Peloponnese in the 5th to 7th centuries CE. Congratulations to her on this success!

Congratulations to Rebecca Sweetman

Rebecca Sweetman was awarded a Caledonian Research foundation/RSE European Visiting Research Fellowship for the project entitled ‘Late Antique Churches as evidence for the diachronic complexities of the Christianization of the Peloponnese’. The fellowship will be used to undertake research at the British School at Athens and fieldwork on the 5th – 7th century churches in…