Professor Tim Cornell

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Honorary Professor of Ancient History

Contact details

Email: t.j.cornell@bham.ac.uk

Address: Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Tim Cornell is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester. He is also Honorary Professor in the Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Birmingham. He recently published (as General Editor and principal contributor) The Fragments of the Roman Historians, 3 vols., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Qualifications

BA (UCL),
MA (Cantab)
PhD (London)

Biography

Education: University College London (BA 1968; PhD 1972)

Previous career: W. H. D. Rouse Research Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge (1973–75); Assistant Director of the British School at Rome (1975–8); Lecturer (then Senior Lecturer) in Ancient History at University College London (1978–94); Professor of Ancient History, University of Manchester (1994–2004 and 2006–2011); Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London (2004–6)

Postgraduate supervision

I am happy to discuss research proposals, and to supervise dissertations, on subjects that fall within my own fields of research, and in general on Roman history and/or historiography.

Research

My principal research interests include the history and archaeology of Italy from the Bronze Age to the Roman period; the history of Rome from its origins to the end of the Republic; ancient and modern historiography.

Publications

Recent publications include The Fragments of the Roman Historians, 3 vols., Oxford: OUP 2013, and The Beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c. 1000–264 BC), London: Routledge 1995. I have also published numerous articles and papers on Roman history and historiography.