Gareth Sears

Dr.

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I have supervised and am currently supervising successful postgraduate research students on many different aspects of Roman history, literature and culture. There are several areas that I have and would consider supervising MPhil and PhD students on, but in particular:

Urbanism in the Roman Empire and in particular work on North Africa and/or on the late Roman city
North African society and history during the Roman period
Christianity and Christians in North Africa (pre AD. 450); in particular heresy and schism and their sociological background and the relationship between Christians and non-Christians in the African cities.
Paganism and syncretism in the later Roman Empire
Aspects of the history of the later Roman Empire
I am always more than happy to talk to prospective students about their projects.

Current PhD students

Elizabeth Crump (responses to autocracy in the Julio-Claudian period)
Anna Kelley (Commodity, Commerce and Economy: Re-evaluating Cotton Production and Diffusion in the First Millennium)
Chris Knibbs (female models of exemplarity in Republican, imperial and late antique writers)
Ioannis Nakas (the construction, use and evolution of the late Hellenistic and Roman harbours of the Aegean)
Joseph Scales (Religious Identity and Spatiality in 1st Century BCE Galilee) (based in UoB Theology)
Anna Thorogood (Trojan Identities in Neronian Rome)
Jessica Venner (subsistence and commercial production in the private gardens of the Roman Empire)
Andrea Zocchi (the Periphery of Lepcis Magna: Suburban Topography and Land Use) (based at Leicester on a M3C scholarship)
Current MRes students

Lluís Jerez Bertolín (Circumcellions and debt in the late antique African countryside)
Jonathan Hackett (popularity of amphitheatre games in the Roman world)
Richard Kendall (Homelessness and Beggary in Roman Cities)
Curtis Lisle (artefacts in late antique Asia Minor)
In addition, I have also supervised successful research students working on: the archaeology of Republican period Hispania; on Valerius Maximus Book 9; on temple conversion in late antique Africa; on Severan imperial women; on Julian’s Against the Galilaeans.

20062017

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