Dr Ruth Westgate
Education & Qualifications
1988 BA Classics, Clare College, Cambridge
1995 PhD, History of Art, Manchester University (Greek Mosaics of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods)
Career Overview
2004– Lecturer in Archaeology and Ancient History, Cardiff University
1998–2004 Research Fellow/Lecturer in Archaeology and Ancient History, Cardiff University
1996 Associate Lecturer, Classics Department, King’s College London
1993–95 Macmillan-Rodewald Student, British School at Athens
1992–93 School Student, British School at Athens
Membership & External Activity
Publicity Officer and Committee member, Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics
Member of Council, Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, 2007–2010
Secretary, Cardiff and District Classical Association, 2001–2010
Member, Association International pour l’Étude de la Mosaïque Antique
Member of Council, British School at Athens, 1996–1998
Notable Achievements
2008 Awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for work on a monograph on Greek mosaics.
2001 Lead organiser of the conference ‘Building Communities: House, Settlement and Society in the Aegean and Beyond’.
Selected Presentations
Party Animals: The Imagery of Status, Power and Masculinity in Greek Mosaics
Inaugural Address, UCD Classical Society, Dublin, March 2011
Hellenistic Mosaics and the Display of Cult Statues
Classical Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, April 2010
Party Animals: The Imagery of Status, Power and Masculinity in Greek Mosaics
Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics, 59th Symposium on Ancient Mosaics, London, December 2008
Making Yourself at Home in the Hellenistic World
‘Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World’, University of Waterloo, Ontario, August 2008
Carpets in Stone? Greek Mosaics and Oriental Textiles in the Classical-Hellenistic Periods
‘Fabulous Stuff: The Impact of Near Eastern Textiles on Europe’, Exeter University, May 2008
Interior Decoration in Hellenistic Houses: Context, Function and Meaning
keynote lecture at ‘Urban Living in the Eastern Mediterranean, Fourth Century B.C. to First Century A.D.’, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, October 2007
House Form and Social Structure in Classical and Hellenistic Crete
‘STEGA: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete from the Neolithic Period through the Roman Era’, Ierapetra, Crete, May 2005
Greek Mosaics in the Black Sea Region
‘Olbia and the Ancient World’, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev, November 2001