Research Students
On this page are listed some the doctoral and two-year M.Phil. students that are studying or have studied at Oxford in Late Antiquity or the late Roman empire.
Current DPhils 2019-2020
Thomas Adamson-Green
Topic: Ordering Knowledge: Knowledge and Power in the Byzantine Compilation Movement, c.886-1000
Supervisor(s): Phil Booth, Catherine Holmes
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/thomas-adamson-green
David Addison
Topic: Lay Religion in the Iberian Peninsula c.408-711 AD
Supervisor(s): Conrad Leyser
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/david-addison
Chloe Agar
Topic: On the Representation of Visions in Selected Coptic Hagiographical Texts
Supervisor(s): Phil Booth, Gesa Schenke
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/chloe-m-agar
Daniel Alford
Topic: Kin and Culture: Marriage and Inheritance in Late Antique Armenia
Supervisor(s): Phil Booth, Yuhan Vevaina
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/daniel-alford
Philip Atkins
Topic: Politics in the Age of Theodosius I?
Supervisor(s): Neil McLynn
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/philip-atkins
Adele Curness
Topic: Hagiography and Society in Southern Italy (10th-12th centuries)
Supervisor(s): Catherine Homes, Chris Wickham
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/adele-curness
Daniel Gallaher
Topic: T‘ovma Arcruni and his World: Armenian Historical Traditions in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Supervisor(s): Phil Booth, Theo van Lint
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/daniel-gallaher
Joshua Hitt
Topic: Age and Identity: The Discourse of Old Age in Byzantine Literary and Visual Culture, Tenth-Twelfth Centuries
Supervisor(s): Ida Toth
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/joshua-hitt
Brian Lapsa
Topic: Christian idea of imitation of the divine and its antecedents in Greek rhetoric and education
Supervisor(s): Teresa Morgan
Joseph Lewis
Topic: The Patronage of Christian Building in Late Antique and Merovingian Gaul (c. 350-751)
Supervisor(s): Craig Clunas, Bryan Ward-Perkins
Link: https://history.ox.ac.uk/people/joseph-lewis
John-Francis Martin
Topic: The Byzantine Catholics: A Study of the Network of Byzantine Intellectuals who Converted to Catholicism, c.1350 - 1453
Supervisor(s): Phil Booth, Catherine Holmes
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/john-francis-martin
Callan Meynell
Topic: Roman Identity in Byzantium: Empire, Church, and War. The Political and Religious Bases for Romanness in Byzantium and Their Development
Supervisor(s): Marek Jankowiak
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/callan-meynell
Giulia Paoletti
Topic: The Spiritual Chapters of Andronikos Palaiologos
Supervisor: Marc Lauxtermann
Link: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/giulia-maria-paoletti
Sukanya Raisharma
Topic: Trust and Conflict in Monastic Spaces in Gaul, c. 350 - c. 700
Supervisor(s): Julia Smith
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/sukanya-raisharma
Alberto Ravanni
Topic: John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad
Supervisor(s): Marc Lauxtermann
Link: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/alberto-ravani
Lorenzo Saccon
Topic: The Size and Importance of the Greek Slave Trade in the Fourteenth Century
Supervisor(s): Marek Jankowiak
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/lorenzo-saccon
Ngoh (Raymond) Shian Haw
Topic: The New History of Zosimus
Supervisor(s): Phil Booth, Neil McLynn
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/shian-haw-ngoh
Andrew Small
Topic: The Golden Opportunity: A Global History of Eleventh-century Byzantine Italy
Supervisor(s): Chris Wickham
Link: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/andrew-small
Oxford theses on Late Antiquity completed since 2007
Past students
Philippa Adrych (Magdalen; Classics)
The Cult of Mithras in the Second to Fourth centuries AD
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Kristian Akselberg (Pembroke College; Theology)
Ecclesiology in the Catechetical Lectures of St Cyril, Archbishop of Jerusalem
Supervisor: Yannis Papadogiannakis
Jaqueline Bemmer (Jesus College: History)
The Authority of Early Irish Law in Practice
Supervisor: Thomas Charles-Edwards
Moshe Blidstein (University College: Theology)
Transformations of Purity in Late Antiquity: Theories and practices of purification, 100–400 CE
Supervisor: Guy Stroumsa
Lynton Boshoff (The Queen's College: Classics)
The Mythological Epics of Blossius Aemilius Dracontius in their Socio-Political Context
Supervisors: Stephen Harrison and Helen Kaufmann
Jamie Chandler (University College; History):
The numismatic evidence for centralized government in post-Roman Britain
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Keith Collins (Keble College; Theology)
Christian concept of wisdom
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Jeremiah Coogan (Oriel; Theology)
The Origin of the Septuagint Odes
Supervisor: Alison Salvesen
Dominic Dalglish (Wolfson College: Archaeology)
Art in the East between Parthians/Sasanians and Rome
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Simon Davies (Lincoln College; Archaeology)
Animal sculpture in medieval Constantinople
Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Jessica Dunham (St Cross: Archaeology)
The reuse of Roman objects in early Anglo-Saxon graves
Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Jessica Ehinger (St Peter’s College; Theology)
Borders and the borderline: Theological effects of the stabilized Byzantine-Islamic broders during the period of the Islamic expansion
Supervisors: Jane Baun, and Hugh Kennedy (SOAS)
Simon Ford (Exeter College; History)
Imperial loyalty and identity among the elite of Roma Oriens, 4th–6th centuries AD
Supervisors: Neil McLynn and David Taylor
Katie Hager (St Cross College: Theology)
Shifting Foundations: Understanding the influence of Evagrius Ponticus on John Cassian
Supervisor: Philip Booth
Akemi Horii (Worcester College; Oriental Studies)
Chinese and East Asian imported ceramics in the Gulf
Supervisor: Jeremy Johns
Gareth Hughes (Wolfson College; Oriental Studies)
The memre of Narsai of Nisibis
Supervisor: David Taylor
Jelena Jaric (St Cross; Archaeology)
The Early Medieval Military Conflicts between Byzantium and the 'Barbaricum': A Case Study on the Archaeological Evidence from the Central Balkans
Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Anniken Johansen (St Cross College; Theology)
The Concept of Theosis in Dionysius the Areopagite between Greek and Syriac tradition
Supervisor: Yannis Papadogiannakis
Trent Jonson (St Cross College: Oriental Studies)
Early Islamic Coinage of North Africa and Spain
Supervisor: Luke Treadwell
James Kelly (Lady Margaret Hall; Theology)
Etymology in Augustine and others
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Konstantin Matthias Klein (Brasenose College; Classics)
Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Fifth Century
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Stefanie Lenk (Wolfson College: History of Art)
Baptismal art in early medieval West
Supervisors: Jaś Elsner and Gervase Rosser
Adam McBride (Queen's; Archaeology)
Great Hall Complexes in Anglo-Saxon England
Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Frazer MacDiarmid (Christ Church; Theology)
Sacrifice and Suffering in Ignatius of Antioch's notion of Christian identity
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Bradley J. Marsh (St Cross College; Theology)
A Textual-Exegetical History of the so-called 'Proto-Samaritan' Text-Type
Supervisor: Alison Salvesen
Trevor Morse (St John’s College; History)
Anglo-Saxon aristocracy
Supervisor: John Blair
Dimitrios Pallis (St Cross College: Theology)
The Liturgical Sytnhesis of Dionysios the Areopagite
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Aleksander Paradziński (Kellogg College; History)
Senators, bishops, decuriones and barbarians IV–VI century – a study of the relationship between Roman elites and their barbarian counterparts
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Matthieu Pignot (St Cross College; History)
The Catechumenate in Italy and North Africa, 4th–6th centuries
Supervisors: Neil McLynn and Conrad Leyser
Sukanya Raisharma (St John's College; History)
The formation of the authority of the church fathers in the Latin West: a study of the north Italian manuscripts c. 450–c. 650
Supervisors: Neil McLynn and Conrad Leyser
Werner de Saeger (Kellogg College; Architectural History)
The transformation of Sacred Architecture in Late Antiquity: from Domus to Basilica
Supervisors: Paul Barnwell and Allan Doig
Yurika Sakai (St Cross; Archaeology)
The transition from the late Roman to early Anglo-Saxon period in the Upper Thames Valley: an analysis of stable isotope values
Supervisor: Helena Hamerow
Lilly Stammler (Corpus Christi College; History)
Attitudes towards place and space in medieval Bulgarian hagiography in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
Supervisor: James Howard-Johnston
Joe Streeter (University College; Classics)
Identity in fourth-century Rome
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Alexander Townson (St Cross College; Oriental Studies)
Palace architecture and ceremonial in Umayyad Spain
Supervisor: Jeremy Johns
Matthew Twigg (Regent's Park College; Theology)
The Nag Hammadi Apocalypse of Paul (NHC V,2) and the Divine Name in Valentinian Gnosticism
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Jeff Volkmer (Wolfson College; Oriental Studies)
The language and text of the Peshitta Psalms
Supervisor: David Taylor
Marlena Whiting (Lincoln College; History)
Travel in the Late Antique Levant: a study of networks of communication and travel infrastructure in the 4th–7th centuries
Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Brendan Wolfe (Wolfson College; Theology)
Germanic Arianism
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
George Woudhuysen (St John's College; History)
The Fall of the House of Constantine, 324-366
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Jonathon Wright (St Stephen's House; Oriental Studies)
Joseph and Aseneth: reconsidering contexts for understanding text(s)
Supervisor: Alison Salvesen
