OCLA: Research Students
Hercules and the Ceryneian hind,
4th-century gold-glass from Rome.
(Ashmolean Museum)
On this page are listed all the doctoral and two-year M.Phil. students currently studying at Oxford in Late Antiquity or the late Roman empire.
Recently completed Oxford theses on Late Antiquity
Kristian Akselberg (Pembroke College; Theology)
Ecclesiology in the Catechetical Lectures of St Cyril,
Archbishop of Jerusalem
Supervisor: Yannis Papadogiannakis
Davor Aslanovski (Kellogg College; History)
Byzantine iconoclasm – concepts of apophatic
theology
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Graham Barrett (Balliol College; History)
Latin literacy in early medieval Spain
Supervisor: Chris Wickham
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
Erica Buchberger (University College; History)
Perceptions of ethnicity in early medieval Francia and
Spain
Supervisors: Bryan Ward-Perkins
and Chris Wickham
Ioannis Choupas (St Anne's College)
The Paris Basin during Late Antiquity
Supervisors: Helena Hamerow & Chris Wickham
Renie Choy (Pembroke College; Theology)
Carolingian Monasticism and Intercessory Prayer, c.
750–830
Supervisor: Sarah Foot
Keith Collins (Keble College; Theology)
Christian concept of wisdom
Supervisor: Mark Edwards
Simon Davies (Lincoln College; Archaeology)
Animal sculpture in medieval Constantinople
Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Girolamo De Simone (St John’s College;
Archaeology)
The dark side of
Vesuvius: Landscape change and the Roman economy
Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Morgan Dirodi (St Cross College; History)
The impact of christianization on the late-antique towns
of Asia Minor
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
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 identify among the elite of Roma
Oriens, 4th–6th centuries AD
Supervisors:
Neil McLynn and David Taylor
Carmela Franco (Wolfson College; Archaeology)
The production and distribution of Sicilian amphorae in
the Roman and
Late Roman periods
Supervisor: Andrew Wilson
Camille Geisz (Wolfson College: Classics)
Nonnus of Panopolis' Dionysiaca
Supervisor: Jane Lightfoot
Katie Hager (St Cross College: Theology)
A Re-evaluation of Evagrius Ponticus' influence on the
writings of John Cassian
Supervisor:
Bernard Green
Julia Hofmann (The Queen’s College;
History)
The politics of Merovingian Gaul 512–751
Supervisor: John Nightingale
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
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
Kelly Kilpatrick (Wadham
College; History)
Early Insular environmental history
Supervisor: Thomas Charles-Edwards
Konstantin Matthias Klein (Brasenose
College; Classics)
Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Fifth Century
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Sean Leatherbury (Corpus Christi College;
History)
Early Byzantine Mosaic and Text
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Adam Levine (Corpus Christi College; History)
Late Antique/Early Byzantine religious iconography
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Bradley J. Marsh (St Cross College; Theology)
A Textual-Exegetical History of the so-called
'Proto-Samaritan' Text-Type
Supervisor: Alison Salvesen
Richard Marshall (Wadham College; Classics)
Varro in Late Antiquity
Supervisor: Tobias Reinhardt
Javier Martinez (Lincoln College; Archaeology)
Urban water supply in late antique Iberia (AD
400–800)
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins
Gavin McCormick (Brasenose College; Classics)
The Christian community as family up to the fourth century
Supervisor: Teresa Morgan
Trevor Morse (St John’s College; History)
Anglo-Saxon aristocracy
Supervisor: John Blair
Adrastos Omissi (St John’s College;
History)
Usurpation and the Formation of Legitimacy in the Later Roman
Empire, A.D. 284–455
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Oliver Pengelley (Keble College; History)
Rome and the Anglo-Saxon Imagination
Supervisor:
Sarah Foot
Luigi Prada (The Queen's College; Oriental
Studies)
Dream interpretation and its sociocultural context in
Roman Egypt: Edition of an unpublished dream interpretation handbook
in Demotic
Supervisor: Mark Smith
Prerona Prasad (Keble; History)
Byzantine foreign policy in the age of Constantine VII
Porphyrogenitus: diplomacy, military intervention and ideology
Supervisor: James Howard-Johnston
Alberto Rigolio (St John's College; Classics)
Higher education in the Eastern Roman Empire during the
IV–V centuries
Supervisors: Neil McLynn and David Taylor
Peter Schadler (University College; History)
Byzantine views on Islam (8th and 14th centuries)
Supervisor: Elizabeth Jeffreys
Lauren Schwartzman (Corpus Christi College;
Classics)
The idea of the magus in early Christian sources
Supervisor: Teresa Morgan
Jesse Simon (University College; History)
Images of the built landscape in the later Roman Empire
Supervisor:
James Howard-Johnston
Clifford Sofield (St Cross College; Archaeology)
Placed deposits in early medieval settlements
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
Jennifer Strawbridge
(Keble College: Theology)
Early Christian education
Supervisors: Christopher Rowland and Teresa Morgan
Joe Streeter (University College; Classics)
Identity in fourth-century Rome
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Jenny Thompson (Corpus Christi College; History)
From cradle to grave: Honorius, Valentinian II, and the
exercise of imperial power
Supervisor: Neil McLynn
Stuart Thomson (Corpus Christi College; Classics)
Clement of Alexandria’s ‘Stromateis’
Supervisors: Tim Whitmarsh and Mark Edwards
Alexander Townson (St Cross College;
Oriental Studies)
Palace architecture and ceremonial in Umayyad Spain
Supervisor:
Jeremy Johns
Elodie Turquois (St Hugh’s College;
Classics)
Procopius
Supervisor: Jaś Elsner
Jeff Volkmer (Wolfson College; Oriental Studies)
The language and text of the Peshitta Psalms
Supervisor: David Taylor
Marlena Whiting (Lincoln College; History)
Pilgrimage sites
Supervisor: Marlia Mango
Brendan Wolfe (Wolfson College; Theology)
Germanic Arianism
Supervisor:
Mark Edwards
George Woudhuysen (St John's College; History)
How and when did economic and demographic structures
change quantitatively and qualitatively in the 6th and 7th
centuries?
Supervisor: Bryan Ward-Perkins