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Teaching Fellow in Roman History

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About

I joined the University of ÌÇÐÄTV in September 2026. Before that, I was on a fixed-term contract as Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, taught Roman History for a variety of colleges of the University of Oxford, and was Lecturer in Learning Development and Support at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. I received my DPhil in Ancient History from the University of Oxford in 2022, and hold Masters and undergraduate degrees from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

I am a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Council Member and Trustee of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and as of Oct 2026, Early Career Research Associate of the Institute of Classical Studies. I have also recently joined the Emerging Editors Board of BICS.

Research interests

I work broadly on the religious and social history of Rome and its provinces from the middle republic to the early empire. My research is broadly driven by a focus on understanding individuals, relationships, and power dynamics as they were lived and perceived in ancient Rome and its provinces. I have published research articles in Mnemosyne (2019) and Greece and Rome (2023), and have a co-edited volume, , with De Gruyter due for publication in Sep 2026.

My first monograph (OUP 2025), , challenges pre-existing scholarly paradigms that holding a priesthood was only important for its political worth. In addition to continuing to work on Roman priesthoods in various ways, I also work on various aspects of Roman religious life in Rome, Italy, and the broader Mediterranean. I continue to work on the phenomenon of emperor worship in Italy. My ongoing work seeks to catalogue and digitise this evidence, and to understand this complex religious phenomenon in the context of identity creation within the world of the Roman principate and in an attempt to complicate simplistic narratives of Roman imperialism more broadly.

I am also working on various aspects of the complex period of transition between Republic to Empire. Principally, I am writing a contracted sourcebook for the Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World, which guides students and readers through the complex evidence for the period between Caesar crossing the Rubicon in 49 BCE to Augustus assuming that title in 27 BCE.

Publications

Books

(2025) Roman Priests from Republic to Empire: Values, Expectations, Representations. Oxford [Oxford Classical Monographs].

Edited Volumes

(2026)The Roman Censorship: Perceptions and Realities.Co-edited with T. Smith and K. Webb. De Gruyter.

Articles

(2023) 'Athena Spits Blood at Rome, Victoria Flees from the Enemy: Portenta and Identity in the Early Principate’. Greece & Rome 70.2: 175–196.

(2019) 'Cassius Dio (51.20.6-8) and the Worship of the Living Emperor in Italy’. Mnemosyne. 72.6: 930–949.

Chapters

(2026) with T. Smith and K. Webb, ‘Introduction’. Pp. 1–18 in A.A. Antoniou, K. Webb and T. Smith (eds) The Roman Censorship: Perceptions and Realities. De Gruyter.

(2026) ‘Roman censors: homines sanctissimi?’ Pp. 251–277 in A.A. Antoniou, K. Webb and T. Smith (eds) The Roman Censorship: Perceptions and Realities. De Gruyter.

Reviews

(2025) 'Review – B. Jordan, The magister equitum in the Roman Republic: The Evolution of an Extraordinary magistracy, Berlin, De Gruyter, 2024 (KLIO – Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, 38), 24,5 x 17,5 cm, x-174 p., fig., ISBN 978-3-11-133858-3’. Latomus. 84.4: 903–904.’

(2025) ‘Review – Blank, Thomas. Religiöse Geheimniskommunikation in der Mittleren und Späten Römischen Republik. Separatheit, gesellschaftliche Öffentlichkeit und zivisches Ordnungshandeln. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 82. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024. Pp. 648. ISBN 9783515133869’. BMCR 2025.07.47.

(2022) ‘Review – Jeffrey Murray, David Wardle, Reading by example: Valerius Maximus and the historiography of exempla. Historiography of Rome and its Empire, 11. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022, Pp. xi, 352. ISBN 9789004499409. $137.00. BMCR 2022.11.38.

(2019) Review – A. Villaret, Les dieux augustes dans l’Occident romain. Un phénomène d’acculturation, Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2019 (Scripta Antiqua, 126), 24x17cm, 491p., fig., 25€, ISBN 978-2-35613-329-8’. Latomus. 80.1: 268-271.

Teaching and supervision

Undergraduate modules (2026–2027)

• CX110: Roman Culture and Society
• CX255/CX355:The Transformation of Roman Society under Augustus