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…

Two awards for Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis

Congratulations to Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis, who has been awarded a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, and a William Lambarde (1536-1601) Memorial Travel Award from the Society of Antiquaries of London. Alexia will use this period of research leave to advance her project ‘Travel and Archaeology through the papers of Thomas Burgon (1787-1858)’. She is preparing…