Doctoral researchers Back to 'Research' Profiles of some of our current research students: Eleanor Bennett Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe ‘Queens of the Arabs’ during the Neo-Assyrian periodSupervisorDr J. Cale JohnsonCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Andrew Blackler Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe role of the medieval towers of Greece – economic, social and political: a re-interpretation based upon a reconstruction of the late-medieval topography of the island of Euboea.SupervisorDr Archie DunnCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Stephanie Boonstra Doctoral Researcher PhD titleTypology of Eighteenth Dynasty ScarabsCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Alessandro Carabia Doctoral researcher PhD titleSpace, population and economy in a frontier region: Liguria in the context of the Western Byzantine provinces AD 500-700SupervisorProfessor Leslie BrubakerCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Elizabeth Crump Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe Discourse of Autocracy in Julio-Claudian Literature SupervisorsProfessor Diana Spencer and Dr Gareth SearsCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Robin Diver Doctoral Researcher PhD title'Wonderful Stories for Kids':Rape and Sexual Violence in Children’s Anthologies of Greek MythSupervisorDr Philip Burton Kyriakos Fragkoulis Doctoral researcher PhD titleLate Roman Pottery from Dion, Greece: The Ceramic Evidence as a Means of Investigating the Historical, Social and Economic Transformations in a City of Central Macedonia during Late AntiquitySupervisorDr Archie DunnCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Safari F. Grey Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe Significance of Names, Epithets, and forms of Address in Homer’s Odyssey.SupervisorDr Gideon NisbetCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Vassiliki Kaisidou Doctoral researcher PhD titleTitle of thesis: From personal experience to the cultural archive: The memory of the Greek Civil War and its legacies across generations (1974-2014)SupervisorProfessor Dimitris TziovasCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Guy Kirkham-Smith Doctoral Researcher PhD titlePhonology of Myth: Audience Direction in Archaic Greek and Near-Eastern MythologySupervisorsDr J. Cale Johnson and Dr Gideon NisbetCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Chris Knibbs Doctoral Researcher PhD titleFemale Exemplars in the Roman WorldSupervisorsDr Elena Theodorakopoulos and Dr Gareth SearsCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Francisco Lopez-Santos Kornberger Doctoral researcher PhD titlePower in Eleventh-Century Byzantium: Re-thinking its Nature from an Interdisciplinary ApproachSupervisorsDr Ruth Macrides and Professor Leslie BrubakerCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Mary Ann Marazzi Doctoral researcher PhD titleA Reconstruction of the Ritual of the Ished Tree Scene in Ancient EgyptCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Gemma Masson Doctoral researcher PhD titleA Prosopography of The Urban Janissary in Eighteenth Century IstanbulSupervisorsDr Marios Hadjianastasis and Dr Arezou AzadCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Anastasios Mikalef Doctoral researcher PhD titleThe press in the Ionian Islands during the British rule “1849-1864” SupervisorProfessor Dimitris TziovasCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Kerrie Myers Doctoral Researcher PhD titleAgents of Divinity in Mesopotamian Incantation Texts (2300-1600 BCE)SupervisorDr J. Cale JohnsonCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Stephanie Novasio Doctoral researcher PhD titleSearching for Identities: a meeting of text and material culture in the Byzantine Life Course CE 1204-1453SupervisorProfessor Leslie BrubakerCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Jacqueline K. Ortoleva Doctoral Researcher PhD titleAllusions of Death: A Neuroarchaeological and Performative Approach to Dancers and Daemons in the Etruscan Tomb SpaceSupervisorPaul GarwoodCourseArchaeology PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Angela Parkes Doctoral researcher SupervisorDr Philip BurtonCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Joseph Parsonage Doctoral researcher PhD titleDynastic Evolution in the Middle Centuries of Byzantium – Marriage, Succession and Gentle Usurpation c. 800 to 1200SupervisorDr Ruth MacridesCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Ms Maria D. Petropoulou Doctoral Researcher PhD titleA Full Commentary on Selected Aeschylean Fragmentary PlaysSupervisorDr Niall LivingstoneCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Amy Elizabeth Porter Doctoral Researcher SupervisorsDr Ken Wardle and Professor Henry ChapmanCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Ben Salisbury Doctoral Researcher SupervisorsDr Henriette van der Blom and Dr Hannah CornwellCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Mr Nicolaos Shiaxiate Doctoral Researcher PhD titleReinterpreting pseudo-Xenophon On the Constitution of the AtheniansSupervisorDr Niall LivingstoneCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Helen Tank Doctoral Researcher PhD titleAgency, Authority and Rhetoric: Women’s Speech in HerodotusSupervisorDr Niall LivingstoneCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Abigail Taylor Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe Portable Antiquities Scheme as a Research Tool for Exploring Cultural Identities in the Fourth to the Sixth centuries ADSupervisorDr Roger WhiteCourseArchaeology PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Anna Thorogood Doctoral Researcher PhD titleTranslating Troy: Trojan Mythology under the Emperor NeroSupervisorsProfessor Diana Spencer and Dr Gareth SearsCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Jennifer Turner Doctoral Researcher PhD titlePatterns in Text Placement and Performance: Statue biographies from the Third Intermediate PeriodSupervisorsDr J. Cale Johnson and Dr Claus JurmanCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Kubra Uygur Doctoral researcher PhD titleInter-communal encounters enabled by Turkish print media in Armenian script, 1850 to 1875SupervisorDr Marios HadjianastasisCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Flavia Vanni Doctoral researcher PhD titleByzantine stucco decoration 850-1453. Cultural and economic implications across the Mediterranean world.SupervisorsProfessor Leslie Brubaker and Dr Daniel ReynoldsCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Jessica Varsallona Doctoral researcher PhD titlePalaiologan architecture in Constantinople: the history of buildings, stratigraphic analysis, and infrared thermography (IRT)SupervisorsProfessor Leslie Brubaker and Dr Ruth MacridesCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Jessica Venner Doctoral Researcher PhD titleSubsistence and commercial production in the private gardens of the Roman EmpireSupervisorsDr Gareth Sears and Professor Diana SpencerCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Lauren Wainwright Doctoral researcher PhD titlePortraits of Power: Female Imperial Imagery in the Byzantine EmpireSupervisorsProfessor Leslie Brubaker and Dr Elizabeth L'EstrangeCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning) Tulay Yesiltas Doctoral researcher PhD titleWhite Wares: An Art Historical and Archaeological Approach to Medieval CeramicsSupervisorDr Archie DunnCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Eleanor Bennett Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe ‘Queens of the Arabs’ during the Neo-Assyrian periodSupervisorDr J. Cale JohnsonCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Andrew Blackler Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe role of the medieval towers of Greece – economic, social and political: a re-interpretation based upon a reconstruction of the late-medieval topography of the island of Euboea.SupervisorDr Archie DunnCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Stephanie Boonstra Doctoral Researcher PhD titleTypology of Eighteenth Dynasty ScarabsCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Alessandro Carabia Doctoral researcher PhD titleSpace, population and economy in a frontier region: Liguria in the context of the Western Byzantine provinces AD 500-700SupervisorProfessor Leslie BrubakerCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Elizabeth Crump Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe Discourse of Autocracy in Julio-Claudian Literature SupervisorsProfessor Diana Spencer and Dr Gareth SearsCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Robin Diver Doctoral Researcher PhD title'Wonderful Stories for Kids':Rape and Sexual Violence in Children’s Anthologies of Greek MythSupervisorDr Philip Burton
Kyriakos Fragkoulis Doctoral researcher PhD titleLate Roman Pottery from Dion, Greece: The Ceramic Evidence as a Means of Investigating the Historical, Social and Economic Transformations in a City of Central Macedonia during Late AntiquitySupervisorDr Archie DunnCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Safari F. Grey Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe Significance of Names, Epithets, and forms of Address in Homer’s Odyssey.SupervisorDr Gideon NisbetCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Vassiliki Kaisidou Doctoral researcher PhD titleTitle of thesis: From personal experience to the cultural archive: The memory of the Greek Civil War and its legacies across generations (1974-2014)SupervisorProfessor Dimitris TziovasCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Guy Kirkham-Smith Doctoral Researcher PhD titlePhonology of Myth: Audience Direction in Archaic Greek and Near-Eastern MythologySupervisorsDr J. Cale Johnson and Dr Gideon NisbetCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Chris Knibbs Doctoral Researcher PhD titleFemale Exemplars in the Roman WorldSupervisorsDr Elena Theodorakopoulos and Dr Gareth SearsCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Francisco Lopez-Santos Kornberger Doctoral researcher PhD titlePower in Eleventh-Century Byzantium: Re-thinking its Nature from an Interdisciplinary ApproachSupervisorsDr Ruth Macrides and Professor Leslie BrubakerCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Mary Ann Marazzi Doctoral researcher PhD titleA Reconstruction of the Ritual of the Ished Tree Scene in Ancient EgyptCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Gemma Masson Doctoral researcher PhD titleA Prosopography of The Urban Janissary in Eighteenth Century IstanbulSupervisorsDr Marios Hadjianastasis and Dr Arezou AzadCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Anastasios Mikalef Doctoral researcher PhD titleThe press in the Ionian Islands during the British rule “1849-1864” SupervisorProfessor Dimitris TziovasCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Kerrie Myers Doctoral Researcher PhD titleAgents of Divinity in Mesopotamian Incantation Texts (2300-1600 BCE)SupervisorDr J. Cale JohnsonCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Stephanie Novasio Doctoral researcher PhD titleSearching for Identities: a meeting of text and material culture in the Byzantine Life Course CE 1204-1453SupervisorProfessor Leslie BrubakerCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Jacqueline K. Ortoleva Doctoral Researcher PhD titleAllusions of Death: A Neuroarchaeological and Performative Approach to Dancers and Daemons in the Etruscan Tomb SpaceSupervisorPaul GarwoodCourseArchaeology PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Angela Parkes Doctoral researcher SupervisorDr Philip BurtonCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Joseph Parsonage Doctoral researcher PhD titleDynastic Evolution in the Middle Centuries of Byzantium – Marriage, Succession and Gentle Usurpation c. 800 to 1200SupervisorDr Ruth MacridesCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Ms Maria D. Petropoulou Doctoral Researcher PhD titleA Full Commentary on Selected Aeschylean Fragmentary PlaysSupervisorDr Niall LivingstoneCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Amy Elizabeth Porter Doctoral Researcher SupervisorsDr Ken Wardle and Professor Henry ChapmanCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Ben Salisbury Doctoral Researcher SupervisorsDr Henriette van der Blom and Dr Hannah CornwellCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Mr Nicolaos Shiaxiate Doctoral Researcher PhD titleReinterpreting pseudo-Xenophon On the Constitution of the AtheniansSupervisorDr Niall LivingstoneCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Helen Tank Doctoral Researcher PhD titleAgency, Authority and Rhetoric: Women’s Speech in HerodotusSupervisorDr Niall LivingstoneCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Abigail Taylor Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe Portable Antiquities Scheme as a Research Tool for Exploring Cultural Identities in the Fourth to the Sixth centuries ADSupervisorDr Roger WhiteCourseArchaeology PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Anna Thorogood Doctoral Researcher PhD titleTranslating Troy: Trojan Mythology under the Emperor NeroSupervisorsProfessor Diana Spencer and Dr Gareth SearsCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Jennifer Turner Doctoral Researcher PhD titlePatterns in Text Placement and Performance: Statue biographies from the Third Intermediate PeriodSupervisorsDr J. Cale Johnson and Dr Claus JurmanCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Kubra Uygur Doctoral researcher PhD titleInter-communal encounters enabled by Turkish print media in Armenian script, 1850 to 1875SupervisorDr Marios HadjianastasisCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Flavia Vanni Doctoral researcher PhD titleByzantine stucco decoration 850-1453. Cultural and economic implications across the Mediterranean world.SupervisorsProfessor Leslie Brubaker and Dr Daniel ReynoldsCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Jessica Varsallona Doctoral researcher PhD titlePalaiologan architecture in Constantinople: the history of buildings, stratigraphic analysis, and infrared thermography (IRT)SupervisorsProfessor Leslie Brubaker and Dr Ruth MacridesCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Jessica Venner Doctoral Researcher PhD titleSubsistence and commercial production in the private gardens of the Roman EmpireSupervisorsDr Gareth Sears and Professor Diana SpencerCourseClassics and Ancient History PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Lauren Wainwright Doctoral researcher PhD titlePortraits of Power: Female Imperial Imagery in the Byzantine EmpireSupervisorsProfessor Leslie Brubaker and Dr Elizabeth L'EstrangeCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)
Tulay Yesiltas Doctoral researcher PhD titleWhite Wares: An Art Historical and Archaeological Approach to Medieval CeramicsSupervisorDr Archie DunnCourseByzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies PhD/MA by Research (On-Campus or by Distance Learning)