Staff Contacts and Research Interests

1.6Staff Contacts and Research Interests

Professor Richard Alston BA (Leeds), PhD (Lond.) Professor of Roman History r.alston@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 149B

Roman history, especially Roman Egypt; urbanism in the ancient world; Roman army.
Dr Ifigeneia Giannadaki BA (Crete), MA, PhD (UCL) Teaching Fellow in Greek History and Language

Ifigeneia.giannadaki@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 144 (shared with Dr Efi Spentzou)

Greek law and oratory
Dr. Liz Gloyn B.A., M.Phil (Cantab), Ph.D. (Rutgers). Lecturer in Classics

liz.gloyn@rhul.ac.uk. Office: IB 149D

Latin literature, especially Seneca; the Roman family; ancient philosophy; gender studies; classical reception studies.
Dr David Gwynn (Department of History) BA(Massey, NZ), MA (Auckland, NZ), DPhil (Oxon.) Reader in Ancient and Late Antique History

David.Gwynn@rhul.ac.uk Office: McCrea 336

The transition from the ancient to the medieval world; the ‘decline and fall’ of the Roman Empire in the West and its survival in the East; the rise of Christianity AD 200-600.
Dr Richard Hawley MA, DPhil (Oxon.) Senior Lecturer (Teaching Focused) in Classics, Deputy HoD for Student Experience

richard.hawley@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 146

Greek language and literature, especially Greek literature of the Roman empire; gender studies; Greco-Roman social history; ancient literary criticism.

Dr Claire Jamset BA (Cantab.), MStud, DPhil (Oxon.) Teaching Fellow in Latin Language and Literature

claire.jamset@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 134 (shared with Prof Jonathan Powell)

Latin poetry, particularly epic and elegy; the construction of masculinity in the ancient world

ahuvia.kahane@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 151

Greek and Latin literature, Homer, epic tradition, the ancient novel, and the classical tradition. Critical theory, antiquity and modernity, visual culture
Dr Zena Kamash MA, DPhil (Oxon.), FSA Lecturer in Roman Art and Archaeology

zena.kamash@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 148

Roman Britain, Roman Near East, ancient technology, approaches to material culture, religion, memory, reconstructions of the past

christos.kremmydas@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 156

Athenian political and social history; Greek rhetoric and oratory; papyrology.
Dr Benedict J. Lowe BA (Durham), PhD (Edinburgh) Teaching Fellow in Roman History

benedict.lowe@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 149E (shared with Dr Jari Pakkanen)

Roman Republican and Imperial history; Roman Spain; Pompeii; garum production.
Dr Nick J. Lowe MA, PhD (Cantab.) Reader in Classical Literature,

n.lowe@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 149C

Greek and Latin literature, especially comedy; Greek religion.
Dr Jari Pakkanen MA, DrPhil (Helsinki), FSA Reader in Classical Archaeology j.pakkanen@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 149E (shared with Dr Benedict Lowe; on secondment in Athens until December 2016)

Greek archaeology, especially Greek architecture; archaeological reconstruction; quantitative methods in archaeology.

j.powell@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 143 (shared with Dr Claire Jamset)

Latin language; Latin literature, esp. Cicero, satire; ancient rhetoric, oratory and advocacy.
Professor N. Boris Rankov MA, DPhil (Oxon.) FSA Professor of Ancient History, Head of Department

b.rankov@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 147

Roman History, especially Roman Britain, Roman army, epigraphy and archaeology of the Roman empire; ancient shipping and shipsheds.
Professor Lene Rubinstein MA (Copenhagen), PhD (Cantab.) Professor of Ancient History

l.rubinstein@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 155

Greek history, especially history of Greek law; epigraphy; papyrology.
Dr Efi Spentzou BA (Thessaloniki), MSt, DPhil (Oxon.) Reader in Classics,

e.spentzou@rhul.ac.uk Office IB 144 (shared with Dr Ifigeneia Giannadaki)

Latin literature, especially epic and elegy; literary theory and criticism; gender; classical reception; myth.
Professor Anne D. R. Sheppard MA, DPhil (Oxon.) Professor of Ancient Philosophy

a.sheppard@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 145

Greek philosophy, especially Neoplatonism; ancient literary criticism.
Dr Polymnia Tsagouria BA (Thessaloniki), MA, DPhil (UCL) Lecturer in Modern Greek; on secondment by the Greek Ministry of Education.

P.Tsagouria@rhul.ac.uk Office: IB 237

Modern Greek language, literature and culture.

2Communication

It is vitally important that you keep in touch with us and we keep in touch with you. Efficient communication is an essential professional skill, which you need to develop during your time with us for your future career. Members of staff will often need to be able to contact you to inform you about changes to teaching arrangements, special preparations you may have to do for a class or meetings you might be required to attend. You will need to be able to contact members of the Department for example, if you are unable to attend a class, or wish to arrange a meeting with a tutor or your Personal Adviser.