Doctoral researchers Back to 'Research' The Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below: Eleanor Bennett Doctoral Researcher PhD titleThe ‘Queens of the Arabs’ during the Neo-Assyrian periodCourseClassics 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) 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) 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 MythologySupervisorDr 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) 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) 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)CourseClassics 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 titleSensing Space: The Application of Cognitive Science to the Etruscan Tomb Space in Tarquinia and Orvieto.SupervisorPaul GarwoodCourseClassics and Ancient History 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) Ms Maria D. Petropoulou Doctoral Researcher PhD titleA Full Commentary on Selected Aeschylean Fragmentary PlaysSupervisorDr Elena TheodorakopoulosCourseClassics 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 PhD titleBefore Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment, c. 70 - 49 BCSupervisorsDr 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 AtheniansSupervisorsDr Gideon Nisbet and Dr Philip BurtonCourseClassics and Ancient History 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 PeriodCourseClassics 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)SupervisorProfessor Leslie BrubakerCourseByzantine, 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) 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 periodCourseClassics 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)
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)
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 MythologySupervisorDr 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)
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)
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)CourseClassics 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 titleSensing Space: The Application of Cognitive Science to the Etruscan Tomb Space in Tarquinia and Orvieto.SupervisorPaul GarwoodCourseClassics and Ancient History 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)
Ms Maria D. Petropoulou Doctoral Researcher PhD titleA Full Commentary on Selected Aeschylean Fragmentary PlaysSupervisorDr Elena TheodorakopoulosCourseClassics 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 PhD titleBefore Public Opinion: The Role of Tribunes of the Plebs in Creating, Manipulating, and Responding to Popular Sentiment, c. 70 - 49 BCSupervisorsDr 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 AtheniansSupervisorsDr Gideon Nisbet and Dr Philip BurtonCourseClassics and Ancient History 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 PeriodCourseClassics 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)SupervisorProfessor Leslie BrubakerCourseByzantine, 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)
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)