Postgraduate students' current research topics

PhD

• Imogen Clark. The disabled body and the poetics of illness in Martial. M4C, jointly supervised by Prof. Victoria Rimell with Prof. Helen Lovatt, University of Nottingham
• Jacqui Butler, Exemplary Heroines in Roman Art: Andromeda, Iphigenia and Alcestis [Supervisor: Prof. Zahra Newby]
• Sue Walker, Coinage and sacred spaces at the late Iron Age and Roman Sanctuary at Uley [Supervisor: Prof. Suzanne Frey-Kupper]
• Richard Allard-Meldrum, The Imperial Women of the Third Century, 235-285 CE [Supervisors: Dr Clare Rowan and Prof. Alison Cooley]
• Campbell Orchard, The Imperial Coins from the Mint of Tarsus [Supervisors: Prof. Suzanne Frey-Kupper and Dr Andreas Kropp (Nottingham)]
• Abby Wall, The role of natural imagery in representing people and places on Roman coinage (3^rd century BCE to 3^rd century CE) [Supervisors: Dr Clare Rowan and Prof. Zahra Newby]
• Shekinah Vera-Cruz, Working Wonders: Ritual and form in early and classical Roman civil law [Supervisor: Prof. Alison Cooley]
• Elena Claudi, The Representation of Otherness in the Imagines of Philostratus [Supervisors: Prof. Zahra Newby and Prof. David Fearn]
• Isabella Liggi Asperoni, Aventicum/Avenches, the Capital City Civitas Helvetiorum: study of the coin fnds from the public and private buildings (insulae and beyond) [Supervisors: Prof. Suzanne Frey-Kupper and Prof Michel Fuchs (Lausanne), cotutelle with Lausanne]
• Jurriaan Gouw, Understanding Power and Post-Truth Politics in the Age of Nerva and Trajan [Supervisors: Prof. Alison Cooley & Dr. Henriette van der Blom (Birmingham)]
• Ludovico Bevilacqua, Epigraphic Collections and the Roman Antiquarian Market in 18th-Century Italy: The Role of Scipione Maffei (1675-1755) [Supervisors: Prof. Alison Cooley & Prof. Lorenzo Cavelli, cotutelle with Venezia Ca Foscari]
• Victoria Vening-Richards, Eastern Provincial Coinage of the Flavian Imperial Women [Supervisors: Dr Clare Rowan & Dr Andreas Kropp (Nottingham)]
• Carlos Enríquez de Salamanca. Empire and the Dynamics of Local Identity in Roman Baetica, 50 BC - AD 212 [Supervisers: Prof. Alison Cooley and Prof. Clare Rowan] [funded by Chancellor's International Scholarship]
• Chris Parr, Cultural Memories in Rome’s Fora [Supervisers: Prof. Alison Cooley and Prof. Diana Spencer (Birmingham) M4C funded]
• Claudio Azzarito, The Logic of Diagnosis: Understanding and Predicting Diseases in the Medical School of Padua (1500-1600 ca.), supervised by Prof. Caroline Petit
• Zhian Zhang. Wounds in Sophoclean tragedy and ancient Greek imagination
  Supervised by Dr Emmanuela Bakola and Dr Oliver Thomas (Nottingham)
• Rose Su, Materialising the Afterlife: Studying the Roman Thoughts of the Afterlife Through the Mythological Depictions on the Roman Sarcophagi [Supervisor: Prof. Zahra Newby]

MPhil/PhD

• Niccolò Gerardo, From 'Paganism' to Christianity in Italia Cisalpina (Supervisors: Prof. Alison Cooley and Prof. Lorenzo Calvelli, Cotutelle with Venezia Ca' Foscari. Funded by Eutopia)
• Sophie Ploeg, Creating the past and the future in Roman private funerary portraiture. Representation and identity in Rome 50 BCE - 100 CE (Supervisors: Prof. Alison Cooley and Prof. Zahra Newby). Dept scholarship funding.
• Riccardo Bianco, Roman auxiliary funerary commemoration Supervisor: Prof. Alison Cooley

MA by Research

• Adam Marshall, Disgust in Martial [Supervisor: Prof. Victoria Rimell]

Taught MA

• Robert Low (Ancient Literature and Thought)
• Joah Rosing (Ancient Literature and Thought)
• Noah Fenwick (Material and Visual Culture and Ancient Rome)
• Alfie West (Ancient Visual and Material Culture)
• Daniel Tomlinson (Ancient Visual and Material Culture)