Postgraduate Students

Current Research Topics:

PhD:

  • John Roberts: The Virgil Commentary of Juan Luis de la Cerda: a Latin text with an English translation and notes on chapters 1-4 of the preface to the 1642 edition.
    (Supervisor: Prof Andrew Laird)
  • Kate Beats: Function and functionality of the vase in Athenian society
    (Supervisor: Prof James Davidson)
  • Jack Nurpetlian: Civic coinages of the Orontes Valley, Syria
    (Supervisor: Prof Kevin Butcher)
  • Ersin Hussein: Roman Cyprus
    (Supervisor: Dr Alison Cooley)
  • Aileen Das: Reception of Plato's Timaeus in Medieval Islamic Medicine
    (Supervisor: Dr Maude Vanhaelen); see ePortfolio

MPHIL/PhD:

  • Elena Marchis
    (Supervisor: Prof. Kevin Butcher)
  • Rebecca Taylor
    (Supervisor: Prof Simon Swain)
  • Ghislaine van der Ploeg: Cult of Asclepius
    (Supervisor: Dr Alison Cooley)
  • James Wright: Masculinity and Wrestling
    (Supervisor: Dr Dan Orrells)

MA by Research:

  • Matthew Baines: The emperor Julian
    (Supervisor: Prof Simon Swain)
  • Caroline Freeman–Cuerden: Animals in the Roman world
    (Supervisor: Dr Zahra Newby; Dr Alison Cooley, autumn 2011 + summer vac. 2012)
  • Joanna Kemp: Augustan ideology
    (Supervisor: Dr Alison Cooley; Prof Kevin Butcher, summer 2012)
  • Abigael Flack: Suetonius the historian
    (Supervisor: Dr Alison Cooley; Prof. Andrew Laird, summer 2012)
  • Judi Blackwell: Warfare and Economy in the Roman World
    (Supervisor: Prof. Kevin Butcher; Dr Alison Cooley, spring 2012)
  • Tim Pearson
    (Supervisor: Dr Maude Vanhaelen)
  • Madelaine Burrows
    (Supervisor: *)
  • Clara Hiskey
    (Supervisor: Dr Dan Orrells)

Taught MA in Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Rome

Taught MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture

  • William Berry
  • Stephanie Lane
  • Molly Tollit

Recently completed research degrees

 

PHD:

  • Vanessa MacKenzie: Egyptianising monuments in Roman Art (Supervisors: Dr Zahra Newby/Dr Alison Cooley)

  • Eva Mussio: The Novel of Joseph and Aseneth
    (Supervisor: Prof Simon Swain)
  • Pauline Koetschet: Melancholy in Greco-Arabic Writings
    (Supervisor: Dr Peter E Pormann; co-tutelle with Nice University)
  • Ian Fielding: The Successors of Ovid: Latin elegy in the fifth and sixth centuries AD
    (Supervisor: Prof Andrew Laird); see ePortfolio

MA:

  • Joshua Crosby: ‘Reshaping Jewish identity: the role of insiders and outsiders in the early Roman period’
    (Supervisor: Prof Kevin Butcher)
  • Neil Treble: Barbarians and the Roman World: an exploration of the barbarian through the literature of the Late Republic and Roman Empire
    (Supervisor: Dr Alison Cooley)
Congratulations to the following students who have recently successfully completed Taught MA degrees:
  • Charlotte Kelsey (MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture)
  • Ghislaine van der Ploeg (MA in Visual and Material Culture of Ancient Rome)
  • Clarke Henderson (distinction, MA in Ancient Visual and Material Culture)

Postgraduate diploma: Jack Lambourn

Postgraduate Handbook

Classical Association 2012, at University of Exeter: half-bursaries awarded to Ersin Hussein and Aileen Das