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Prof. Alan K. Bowman MA, PhD (Tor) FBA



Co-Director, The Roman Economy Project (OxREP)
Principal, Brasenose College
Director, Vindolanda Writing Tablets
Director, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents

Brasenose College
Oxford,
OX1 4AJ

Tel: (01865) 277874

alan.bowman@bnc.ox.ac.uk

http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/323/about-brasenose-31/academic-staff-150/professor-alan-k-bowman-acting-principal-468.html


Research Interests

Roman History and Papyrology

Selected Recent Publications

1994: The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (with J. D. Thomas), Tabulae Vindolandenses II British Museum Press.
1999: 'Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times' (with E. Rogan), Proceedings of the British Academy 96, Oxford.
2000: 'Urbanization in Roman Egypt', in Romanization and the City. Creation, transformations and failures ( ed. E. Fentress), Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement, 38, 173-87.
2000: Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 11 'The High Empire' (with P.D.A. Garnsey, D.W.Rathbone), Cambridge.
2002: 'Recolonising Egypt,' in Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. T.P.Wiseman, British Academy, 193-224.
2003: Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier. Vindolanda and its People (New edition), British Museum Press, London.
2003: The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses III) (with J.D.Thomas), British Museum Press, London, III.
2009: Quantifying the Roman Economy, Methods and Problems (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy 1, 2009), A.K.Bowman, A.I. Wilson (eds).
2011: Settlement, Urbanization, and Population (Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy 2, 2011) A.K.Bowman, A.I. Wilson (eds).