Doctoral Students

Student	Thesis	Supervisor
Jane Anderson	Gestures, Postures and Body Actions in Hellenistic Art	Prof. R. R. R. Smith
Dominique Bouchard	Rediscovery of Greek Antiquities in Southernmost Italy (Calabria, Basilicata and Puglia) 500–1763 AD A History of Discovery Collection and Scholarship	Prof. D.C. Kurtz
Louise Calder	'Animal Rights': Greek Attitudes to the Animal World Between 600 and 320 BC	Prof. D.C. Kurtz
Zoe Cox	Bronze vessels from Herakleion, Egypt	Prof. R. R. R. Smith
Ioannis Galanakis	Late Bronze Age Tholos Tombs in the Aegean, ca 1700–1200 B.C.	Dr D. J. L. Bennet Dr E. S. Sherratt
Angela Gray	Study of Consumption Patterns and Mortuary Analysis in Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age Aegean	Ms L. F. Nixon
Chia Lin Hsu	Techniques of Red Figure Vase Painting in Late Sixth and Fifth Century Athens	Prof D. C. Kurtz
Myrina Kalaitzi	Commemoration of the dead in ancient Macedonia from the 5th to the 2nd cent. BC	Prof R. R. R. Smith
Emma Libonati	Statuary from Herakleion in Egypt	Prof R. R. R. Smith
Constantinos Methenitis	Public monumental architecture in the Sicily, South Italy and Etruria (ca.700–500 B.C.)	Dr I. S. Lemos Dr J. J. Coulton
David Mitchell	Submycenaean material culture and society	Dr I. S. Lemos Prof. Gary Lock
Eleutheria Pappa	Trade posts in the Mediterranean	Dr I. S. Lemos
Thomas Patrick	Patterns in Protocorinthian: reconstructing Greek trade activity and cultural Influence from pottery distribution	Prof. D. C. Kurtz
Sadie Pickup	Creation and reception of Aphrodite Disrobed (provisional title)	Prof. D. C. Kurtz
Zoe Robinson	The metalware from the sanctuary-complex at Heracleion-Thonis	Dr. D. Robinson
Roberto Rossi	The 'Art' of Hellenistic warfare: Historical Narrative, Victory Monuments and the Commemoration of the Warrior.	Prof. R. R. R. Smith
Giulia Saltini Semerari	Early (pre-colonial) contacts between Italy and Greece	Dr I. S. Lemos
Styliani Skaltsa	Hellenistic Gymnasia	Dr J. J. Coulton Prof R. R. R. Smith
Alessandra Sulzer	Reception of Classical Antiquity in Spain and the Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily (1701–1808)	Prof D. C. Kurtz
Elsbeth van der Wilt	The lead artefacts from the sanctuary-complex at Heracleion–Thonis	Dr D. Robinson

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Recently Completed Theses (Greek Archaeology)

Student	Thesis	Supervisor
Alexandra-Fani Alexandridou	Ceramic Production of Attica from Draco to Solon from 625 to 580 B.C.	Prof. D.C. Kurtz
Olympia Bobou	Statues of children from the Hellenistic period.	Prof R. R. R. Smith
Catherine Draycott	Images and Identities in the Funerary Art of Archaic Anatolia, 600–450 B.C.	Prof R. R. R. Smith
Andreas Kropp	The Client Kings of the Roman Near East (1st c. B.C. to 1st c. A.D.) Studies in their art and architecture	Prof R. R. R. Smith
Hans–Caspar Meyer	The discovery, collection and scholarship of Classical Antiquities in Russia, 1697–1917	Prof D. C. Kurtz
Eleni Hatzivassiliou	Athenian Black–Figure iconography between 510 and 475.	Prof D. C. Kurtz
David Saunders	The representation of the dead and dying in Greek Art 850–400 B.C.	Prof D. C. Kurtz
Keith Swift	Classical and Hellenistic coarse pottery from Euesperides (Benghazi, Libya): Archaeological and petrological approaches to production and inter-regional distribution	Prof. A. I. Wilson

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Student	Thesis	Supervisor
Gregory Votruba	Landscapes of maritime cultures	Dr D. Robinson
Kim Kyung Kyu	Early maritime activities between ancient China and the Indian Ocean from the 2nd century BC to the 5th century AD	Dr D. Robinson

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Student	Thesis	Supervisor
Simon Barker	Reuse in Late Republican and Imperial Art and Architecture in the City of Rome (100 BC – 275 AD)	Dr J. DeLaine
Amanda Brodie	Roman erotic art	Dr S. Walker
Jonathan Cole	The technology and design of the harbour at Alexandria	Prof. A. Wilson
Girolamo F. De Simone	Beyond the Bay of Naples: The environs of Vesuvius from the mesogaia to the dioceses.	Prof. A. Wilson
Kristina Glicksman	The economy of Roman Dalmatia	Prof. A. Wilson
Jack Hanson	The urban system of the Roman Empire	Prof. A. Wilson
Karen Heslin	How can we measure economic growth in the archaeological record? A comparative study of Roman Gaul and North Africa c. 100 BC – AD 300	Prof. A. Wilson
Anna Kouremenos	Roman influence on private life in Crete	Prof. A. Wilson
Victoria Leitch	Production and trade of Roman and Late Roman North African cookwares	Prof A. I. Wilson
Jason Mander	Mors immatura: images of children on Roman funerary monuments in the West	Dr J. DeLaine
Lauren McGhee	The development of the painted funerary portrait at Antinoopolis from the Roman foundation to the Arab Conquest	Dr S. Walker
Stacey McGowen	The language of images in the Northwest Roman provinces: public and sacred monuments of Gallia, Germania, and Britannia	Prof. R. R. R. Smith
Dragana Mladenovic	The Romanization of Upper Moesia	Prof. A. Wilson
Francis Morris	Interaction between Rome and Free Germania in the North Sea Region	Prof. A. Wilson
Elizabeth Munro	Recycling the Roman villa	Dr J. DeLaine
Charlotte Potts	The archaeology of Roman religious space	Dr. J. DeLaine
Ben Russell	Sculpted stone and the Roman economy: 100 BC - AD 300	Prof R.R.R. Smith Prof A. I. Wilson
Katia Schörle	Glass in the Roman Empire: production, consumption and distribution	Dr. J. DeLaine
Lucy Smith	Roman funerary portraits	Prof. R. R. R. Smith
Saskia Stevens	City Boundaries and Urban Expansion in Roman Italy, 4th century BC - AD 271	Dr J. DeLaine
Christina Triantafillou	Imperial building in Trajanic Rome: a study of the construction and economics of public building	Dr J. DeLaine
Candace Vaden	Ports, Emporia and the Growth of the Roman Economy 166 BC – AD 300	Prof A. I. Wilson
Lucy Wadeson	Nabataean tomb architecture	Dr J. MacKenzie
Courtney Ward	Gender and material culture in early Roman Britain	Dr. S. Walker
Heini Ynnila	Pompeian insula IX, 3 as a unit of urban life	Dr. J. Delaine

Recently Completed Theses (Roman Archaeology)

James Beresford	A reassessment of the ancient sailing season: the case for winter time seafaring on the Roman Mediterranean	Prof. A. Wilson
Luca Cherstich	The southern necropolis of Cyrene	Prof. A. Wilson
Cynthia Drakeman	Portable Goddesses: The Iconography of Isis and Venus on Jewellery from the Roman Empire	Dr M. E. Henig
Abigail Graham	Mute Stones Speak: Monumentalization (and Remonumentalization) in an Urban Context at Ephesus and Aphrodisias	Prof A. K. Bowman
Alfred Hirt	Mines and quarries in the Roman Empire : Organizational aspects 27 BC - AD 235.	Prof. A. Wilson
Zena Kamash	Water management in the Roman Near East, 63 B.C. - A.D. 636	Prof. A. Wilson
Elizabeth  Macaulay-Lewis	The city in motion: movement and space in the villa, porticus, and Horti in Rome from 100 BC to AD 150	Dr. J.Delaine, Mr N. Purcell
Hallie Meredith	Texts as Contexts for Viewing: Ekphrasis, Inscribed Decoration and Glass Open-work Vessels in Late Antiquity	Dr J.R. Elsner
Shaher  Moh'd  Rababeh	Construction Techniques of the Nabataean Free-Standing Buildings and Rock-Cut Monuments in Petra , Jordan	Dr J. J. Coulton
Rubina Raja	Urban Development and Regional Identity in the Eastern Roman Provinces . 50 BC - AD 250: Aphrodisias, Ephesos, Athens , Gerasa	Prof. R. R. R. Smith
Neil Stewart	The technology and control of mining in Roman Britain	Prof. A. Wilson
Matthew Symonds	The design and purpose of fortlets in the north-western provinces of the Roman Empire	Prof. A. Wilson
William Wootton	Techniques of Hellenistic and Roman mosaic production	Prof R. R. R. Smith
Mantha Zarmakoupi	The "Villae Expolitae Habit" on the bay of Naples (2nd c.BCE-1st c.CE)	Prof. R. R. R. Smith

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Late Roman and Byzantine Archaeology

Student	Thesis	Supervisor
Yaman Dalanay	The Transition from Byzantine to Turkish Rule in Western Asia Minor: the Evidence of Archaeology, 13th-14th centuries
Simon Davies	Medieval Figural Sculpture in Constantinople, 829-1204 AD	Dr M. C. Mango
George Kazan	The Cult of Relics at Constantinople and its Development throughout the Byzantine Era (300-1453 CE)
Elif Keser	The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Northern Mesopotamia, 300-800 AD	Dr M. C. Mango
Seraphima Krasnopolskaya	Vita-Icons of Byzantine and Native Russian Saints	Dr M. C. Mango
Rebecca McGann	The Iconography of the Ascension	Dr J. R. Elsner
Natalija Ristovska	Pathways of Artistic Interchange: Circulation of High Value Goods in Byzantium , The Levant and to the North of the Black Sea (843 to 1204)	Dr M. C. Mango
Efthymios Rizos	Cities in Greece	Dr B. Ward-Perkins

Recently Completed Theses (Late Roman and Byzantine Archaeology)

Student	Thesis	Supervisor
Ioanna Dimopoulos	A Study of Byzantine Sgraffito Wares (11th-13th Century): Classification,Production, Circulation and Art Histori-cal Analysis	Dr M.C. Mango
Eleni Lianta	Byzantine Coinage and Money in the Economy, 1204 1453: Some Problems in Monetary Affairs	Prof N. J. Mayhew
Hallie Meredith	The Open Work Aesthetic: Elite Valuation in Late Antiquity	Dr J. R. Elsner
Anthousa Papagiannaki	The Production of Middle Byzantine Ivory, Bone and Wooden Caskets with Secular Decoration	Dr M.C. Mango
Theodore Papaioannou	The Production of Export Amphorae in Western Asia Minor during the Medieval Period, 641-1204 AD	Dr M. C. Mango
Lukas Schachner	Economic Production in the Monasteries of Egypt and Oriens, AD 320-800	Dr M.C. Mango
Yvonne  Stolz	Late Antique Gold Jewellery from Herakleion in Egypt	Dr M. C. Mango

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