Other Cluster Members

Other Categories of cluster members affiliated to the Ancient World Research Cluster

Name	Research Interests
Heather D. Baker MPhil, DPhil Oxon Assistant Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History, University of Toronto	Assyriology; Ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology; Assyria and Babylonia in the first millenium BC; urbanism, house and household; the royal household and palace
David Blackman MA Cantab.	Ancient maritime history; maritime archaeology in general; Greek epigraphy
John Brockington MA, DPhil Oxon; FRSE	The Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa and later versions of the Rāma narrative, both verbal and visual; history of Vaiṣṇavism
Mary Brockington BA, MA Oxon	Narratology, with special reference to the development of the Rāmāyaṇa and other ancient South Asian traditional narratives
Teresa Fitzherbert MA Edinburgh; MPhil Oxon; PhD Edinburgh	Greater Iran at all periods, but particularly under Mongol rule
Sarah V. Graham (Dir) MA Edinburgh; MSt, DPhil Oxon	Archaeology; religious practice, image, myth and cult around the ancient Greek Mediterranean, the Dioskouroi. Roman reception and transmission of Ancient Greek practice and cult. Early travellers in Greece and reception of classical ideas in Western Europe. Archaeoogy and archaeologists in the Second World War.
Kutalmis Görkay Professor of Classical Archaeology University of Ankara	Greek and Roman art and architecture, particularly focusing on the archaeology of the domestic sphere in the Roman East. Director of the archaeological excavations at Zeugma on the Euphrates, with a current focus on the Roman domestic quarter and the city’s main sanctuary.
Martin Henig MA, DPhil, DLitt Oxon, FSA	Art and archaeoogy, especially engraved gemstones, and sculpture in the archaeology, culture and religion of Roman Britain. Theology, especially as it affects our attitude to animals and the wider creation including attitudes to animals in Antiquity.
Richard Hitchman MA, MPhil, DPhil Oxon	Greek personal names
John (Jack) Kroll Emeritus Professor, Univ. of Texas, Austin’ Honorary Research Associate, Herberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum	Greek History; Coinage; Epigraphy
Ionut Moise DPhil Oxon	Comparative Philosophy (with a book project in progress) that looks into classical and medieval Sanskrit texts, as well as classical Greek and Analytical philosophical sources; Philosophy of Physics; Comparative Religion; Indian philosophy and Sanskrit philology.
Michael Roaf DPhil Oxon Prof. emer. für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich	Near Eastern archaeology
Dr Diana Rodríguez Pérez PhD León Former JRF Mougins Museum in Classical Art and Material Culture; Research Assistant for the Beazley Archive Pottery Database, CARC, Faculty of Classics	Greek art and archaeology; iconography; Athenian figure-decorated and black-gloss pottery Classical art and archaeology; iconography; connoisseurship; Athenian figure-decorated and black-gloss pottery. Material culture and cross-cultural interactions across the Mediterranean. My current project studies the consumption of Athenian pottery in the Iberian Peninsula in the 5th and 4th c. BC.
John Sellars Lecturer in Philosophy, Royal Holloway, University of London	Greek and Roman philosophy and their later reception
John David Thomas Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University	Classics (i.e.Greek and Latin) in particular Papyrology, Palaeography and Roman History generally
Robert Thomas PhD Southampton Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba	Ancient geometry and astronomy (study and translation of Euclid's Phaenomena and the Spherics of Theodosios)

Associate Members of the Common Room

Eleanor Dickey

FBA Reading; DPhil Oxon

Professor of Classics, University of Reading

Greek and Latin languages and literatures; ancient education; language contact; sociolinguistics; ancient scholarship.

Students

Saqib Hussain DPhil in Oriental Studies	Biblical Wisdom Literature, its evolution into Late Antiquity, and into the Qur'anic milieu
Claire Gardom DPhil in Ancient History	Clement of Alexandria; sensory studies.
Lynn-Salammbô Zimmermann DPhil in Assyriology	Kassite period, letters, law, administration, state organization, seals, sealing practice.
Grace Stafford DPhil in Classical Archaeology	Late Antique art and archaeoloy; gender; pilgrimage.
Valters Negribs DPhil in Oriental Studies	Indian asceticism; Sanskrit epics; Indian Buddhism; history of yoga

Visiting Scholars affiliated to the Cluster

Concepción Cabrillana (2016) Professor of Latin Philology University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)	Latin philology
Ricardo Salles (2019) Researcher Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México	Ancient Philosophy