Dr Adam Rogers BA MA PhD FHEA

Dr Adam Rogers

Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology
Assistant Professor in Roman Archaeology

Contact details

Address
Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I specialise in the archaeology of the Roman world, with a focus on Western Europe and Britain, as well as the relationship with earlier periods. I am particularly interested in settlements and landscapes, lifeways, people and identity, materiality, religion and ritual and theory and historiography in Roman studies and heritage.  

Qualifications

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • PhD in Roman Archaeology, University of Durham
  • MA in Archaeology, University of Durham
  • BA in Archaeology, University of Durham

Biography

I received my PhD in Roman Archaeology from the University of Durham and I then undertook a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Leicester. At Leicester I also undertook a number of other teaching and research roles including Research Associate on the Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain project.

Teaching

I teach a range of modules across archaeology and ancient history on Roman studies, Roman archaeology, Roman Britain and archaeology more widely.

Postgraduate supervision

I would be interested in supervising doctoral students on topics in Roman archaeology and Roman studies including the archaeology of the Roman West and Roman Britain, theory and historiography, identity, materiality, settlement studies, landscapes and water.


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Research

I am interested in the archaeology of the Roman World as well as the relationship with pre-existing worlds. My research has focused especially on settlement, landscapes and water as well as materiality, hoards and deposition. I am also interested in archaeological theory within Roman archaeology and the historiography of Roman studies. I have a number of publications on my research including Late Roman Towns in Britain: Rethinking Change and Decline (Cambridge University Press 2011), Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain (Brill 2013), The Archaeology of Roman Britain: Biography and Identity (Routledge 2015), Iron Age and Roman Coin Hoards in Britain (co-authored, Oxbow Books 2020) and Roman Towns (Amberley 2023).

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Rogers, A 2011, Late Roman towns in Britain: Rethinking change and decline. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511977213

Article

James, S, Blue, L, Rogers, A & Score, V 2020, 'From phantom town to maritime cultural landscape and beyond: Dreamer’s Bay Roman-Byzantine ‘port’, the Akrotiri Peninsula, Cyprus, and eastern Mediterranean maritime communications', Levant, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 337-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2021.1887647

Rogers, A 2012, 'The transformation of urban waterscapes: Documenting waterscape manipulation as an aspect of urban development in the Roman period', Revue Belge de Philologie et de Histoire, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 165-190. https://doi.org/10.3406/rbph.2012.8394

Rogers, A 2012, 'Water and the Urban Fabric: A study of towns and waterscapes in the Roman period in Britain', International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.2012.00347.x

Rogers, A 2011, 'Reimagining roman ports and harbours: The port of Roman London and waterfront archaeology', Oxford Journal of Archaeology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 207-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0092.2011.00365.x

Rogers, AC 2008, 'Religious place and its interaction with urbanization in the Roman era', Journal of Social Archaeology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 37-62. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605307086077

Chapter

Rogers, A 2020, Water and Decentring Urbanism in the Roman Period: Urban Materiality, Post-Humanism and Identity. in The Power of Urban Water: Studies in Premodern Urbanism. De Gruyter, pp. 123-142. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110677065-008

Rogers, A 2018, INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES UNDER ROME. in The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. SIPRI/Oxford University Press, pp. 1187-1210. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.37

Rogers, A & Hingley, R 2011, Edward Gibbon and Francis Haverfield. in Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire. SIPRI/Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199584727.003.0008

Editorial

Rogers, A 2013, 'Social Archaeological Approaches in Port and Harbour Studies', Journal of Maritime Archaeology, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-013-9121-5

Review article

Rogers, A 2013, 'Water and Roman Urbanism: Towns, Waterscapes, Land Transformation and Experience in Roman Britain', Mnemosyne, Supplements, vol. 355, pp. 1-292.

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