Faculty of Classics
I am primarily interested in the architecture, construction, and technology of the Roman period, with a focus on Roman baths during the imperial period. I also have a keen interest in various aspects of digital archaeology, and have been involved in several excavation projects across the Mediterranean, mostly in Italy (Alba Fucens, Aquinum). My current research project, started in the framework of the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, investigates the design processes of bath buildings across the empire, and the use of orders therein.
18 October 2024
The Faculty is delighted to announce that both Dr Lea Niccolai and Dr Henry Spelman have been awarded Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the 2024 competition. Professor Anna Vignoles, Director of the Leverhulme Trust, said: “Now in its twenty-third year, this scheme continues to attract applications from extraordinarily high...
3 October 2024
The Faculty would like to congratulate Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir for winning the The British Federation of Women Graduates' Elen Wynne Vanstone Award for her work Talis homo qualis oratio: social status and its connection to the language of Roman writers. Sólveig works on the interface between Latin linguistics and Latin...
23 July 2024
The new exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Paris 1924: Sport, Art, and the Body , Co-curated by Classics' Carrie Vout has been awarded 5 stars by the Guardian. "Timed to coincide with next week’s return of the Olympics to the French capital – is a revelation from first to last. You soon begin to realise that those Games...
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