Education and qualifications

1990 BA Hons in Ancient and Medieval History, University College London

1991 MA in Ancient History, University College London

1997 PhD, University College London (Umbria from the Iron Age to the Augustan Era)

Career overview

1995-1996 Teaching Assistant, then Temporary Lecturer, University of Reading 

1996-1998 Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History, Cardiff University

1998-2008 Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University

2004-2007 Head of Ancient History Section

2008- Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Cardiff University

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• 1992-1995 British Academy major state studentship for PhD
• 2002-2003 AHRB Research Leave grant
• 2003 Hugh Last Fellow at the British School at Rome
• 2009-2010 Visiting Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies

Aelodaethau proffesiynol

• Member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2002–2005
• Member of Institute of Classical Studies Library Committee
• External Examiner at Exeter University (2005–2007)
• External Examiner at Oxford University (2007–2010)

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• Joint organiser with Dr John-Paul Wilson of the conference Parallels and Contrasts in Greek and Roman Colonisation: Origins, Ideologies, and Interactions, Institute of Classical Studies, 1998.
• Invited lecture on the history of Umbria at the conference L'Etrurie et l'Ombrie avant Rome. Cité et territoire, 2004, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
• Director of Studies of The Tribes of Ancient Italy - the first millennium, weekend school for the Dept. of Continuing Education, Oxford University, 2004.
• A keynote speaker at the Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology 9, 2005, Chieti, Italy
• Invited lecture for a research project entitled Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers. Key issues in the study of the Roman Republic, Leiden, Netherlands, 2006
• Organiser and respondent of the panel 'Shifting Identities in Ancient Italy and Sicily', at the European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2006
• Invited lecture on 'The Iuvanum Survey Project: fortifications' at the conference Iuvanum tra Sangro e Aventino. Ricerca, tutela, valorizzazione, Montenerodomo, Italy, 2008
• Coordinator of the organising committee for the Classical Association Conference, Cardiff 7–10 April 2010

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My teaching centres mainly on Roman history, covering a period from the development of the archaic city of Rome to the early Principate, dealing with both chronological periods and also thematic issues such as Roman slavery and Romanisation. The modules I teach on are:

Undergraduate

• Conquest and Crisis: the Roman Republic - 30 credits (HS3316)
• Roman Imperial History 31 BC-AD 138 - 30 credits (HS3317)
• Roman Religion - 10 credits (HS3331)
• Rome and Carthage - 20 credits (HS3333)
• Slaves, Serfs and Freedmen - 10 credits (HS3360)
• Material Evidence for Ancient History - 10 credits (HS4333)
• Early Rome: History and Legend - 10 credits (HS4359)
• The Etruscans: History and Society - 10 credits (HS4364)

I also lecture and take seminars in the Greek and Roman Part One modules:

• Introduction to Ancient Greek History - 20 credits (HS3101)
• Introduction to Roman History - 20 credits (HS3102)

Postgraduate

• Themes and Approaches in Ancient History - 20 credits (HST002)
• Understanding Texts - 10 credits (HST011)
• The Romanisation of Italy - 20 credits (HST028)
• Special Topic: Ethnicity in the Ancient World - 20 credits (HST033)

Research supervision

For PhD projects that I currently supervise, see under the Postgraduate Students tab. I would welcome supervising PhD students in the history and archaeology of Italy before the Roman Empire, and in the history and archaeology of early Rome.

Research interests

My research has focused on the history and archaeology of Italy and Rome in the first millennium BC, using approaches that draw on comparative historical and anthropological studies and the integrated use of archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources. My interests in ethnic identity and the formation of ancient communities has informed my archaeological research at Iuvanum in the central Italian Appennines, where the Iuvanum Survey Project, directed by myself and Oliva Menozzi (Chieti), has systematically investigated the territory of this well-excavated Roman city. Our results make Iuvanum one of the most extensively examined ancient cities in the upland areas of Italy, showing both how a pre-Roman community living in a dispersed settlement pattern emerged in the first millennium BC and how the community disintegrated at the end of the classical period.

My longer term intentions are to develop my research into several areas of Roman history:

• cultural change and ethnicity in Ancient Italy
• early Roman history
• Roman colonization in Italy

Projects

Iuvanum Survey Project

I am a co-director of the Iuvanum Survey Project (2000–2005) in collaboration with Oliva Menozzi of the University of Chieti (Italy). The aim of the project has been to investigate the territory of a Roman town in Samnium by field walking and other survey techniques, and to integrate the results with a comprehensive and critical analysis of the evidence for the site's regional context. This project developed out of the excavation of Monte Pallano in the Sangro Valley Survey, and has been undertaken with the full support and cooperation of the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l'Abruzzo. The funders of the project are the British Academy, Cardiff University, the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and the Society of Antiquaries.

For more details see:

• The Iuvanum Survey Project