Postgraduate students' current research topics

Alongside staff, postdoctoral fellows and visiting speakers, our postgraduates are encouraged to present their work at our weekly 'Work-in-progress' seminar, and at our yearly Posgraduate Colloquium.

PhD (includes recently completed)

• 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
• 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]
• 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, Scipione Maffei (1675-1755) and the Lapidary Museum of Verona: An Epigraphic Project between Scholarship and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Europe [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, Exploring the Funerary Significance of Roman Sarcophagi through a Programmatic Reading of Sarcophagi in Communal Roman Tombs over Time [Supervisor: Prof. Zahra Newby]
• Riccardo Bianco, Roman Auxiliary Tombstones from a Postcolonial Perspective Supervisor: Prof. Alison Cooley
• Niccolò Gerardo, Epigraphic Perspectives on Religious Transformations in Milan and Aquileia from the Second to the Fourth Century (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

MPhil/PhD

• Daria Kwiatkowski (Supervisor: Prof. Kevin Butcher/Dr Jack Nurpetlian)
• Adam Marshall, Form, Genre and Disgust in the Literature of Imperial Rome (Supervisor: Prof Victoria Rimell].
• Richa Snell, Cult Statues in Ancient Greece [Supervisor: Prof. Zahra Newby]

MA by Research (recent and current)

• Ollie Brindle, Costume in Aristophanes and the Comic Fragments (Supervisors: Dr. Emmanuela Bakola & Prof. Victoria Rimell],
• Harry Smithson, Typologies of Violence in Phoenician Sicily: From First Contact to Carthaginian Expansion [Supervisor: Dr Trevor van Damme]
• William Whitmore, Combat Trauma and Memory in Ancient Greece [Supervisor: Dr Emily Clifford]
• Millie Barratt, Challenging the Romanticisation of the Hetaira: Gender, Agency and Exploitation in Classical Athens [Supervisor: Prof. James Davidson]
• Adam Marshall, The Poetics of Cunnilingus in Martial's Epigrams [Supervisor: Prof. Victoria Rimell]
• Martha Yeoman, The Problem of Being Two: Specular Siblings and the Little Other in Sophocles’ Antigone [Supervisors Dr Emmanuela Bakola; Prof. David Fearn]

Taught MA

• Robert Low (Ancient Literature and Thought)