Classics, Late Antique, medieval and Byzantine studies

Exploring the history, cultures, and literary productions of ancient Greece.

Professor Michael Champion	Classical Greek dialogue literature, Greek poetry, Greek historiography (especially Thucydides), reception
Associate Professor Gil Davis	Athens (all periods), Greek history, politics and religion, numismatics, epigraphy
Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte	Rhetoric, historiography, Greek poetry

Exploring the history, cultures, and literary productions of the Hellenistic age, broadly imagined. Please also see Second Temple Judaism and Dead Sea Scrolls.

Professor Michael Champion	Hellenistic philosophy, especially ethics; war; justice and equity; emotions
Associate Professor Kylie Crabbe
Associate Professor Benjamin Edsall	Middle Platonism in relation with Judaism and early Christianity
Dr Gareth Wearne	Jewish historiography, Bar Kochba revolt
Associate Professor Jonathan Zecher	Ancient medicine, Galen, Hippocratics, ancient philosophy, emotions

Exploring the history, cultures, and literary productions of the Roman Mediterranean, broadly imagined. Please also see New Testament.

Professor Matthew Crawford	Gospel literature, paratextuality, apologetic literature, Theodosian era, Emperor Julian
Professor Michael Champion	Historiography, war, emotions
Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte	Historiography, women’s history
Associate Professor Michael Hanaghan	Classical and Late Antique historiography, 4th and 5th century Roman imperial history, imperial panegyric
Dr Mark Hebblewhite	Late Antique historiography, Imperial Panegyric
Dr Janine Luttick
Associate Professor Michael Theophilos	Philosophy, politics, and cultural exchange impacting early Christianity.

Exploring the history, cultures, and literary productions of Mediterranean Late Antiquity. Please also see Patristics and early Christian studies.

Professor Lewis Ayres	4th-5th century (especially ecclesiastical politics and history), late Roman empire
Associate Professor Stephen Carlson	NT reception, Eusebius especially Church history; Rufinus; Greek to Latin translations.
Professor Michael Champion	Education; emotions; justice and equity, war; cultural and intellectual history; rhetoric; philosophy, including neoplatonism; Gaza
Professor Matthew Crawford	Theodosian era (especially ecclesiastical politics and history), key figures (Cyril of Alexandria, Eusebius of Caesarea, Emperor Julian), Ecumenical Councils
Associate Professor Benjamin Edsall	Reception of the New Testament, Christian Initiation
Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte	Poetry, rhetoric, historiography, women and gender, emotions, cultural history, intercultural interaction
Associate Professor Michael Hanaghan	Late Antique Latin and Greek literature, the Late Antique West (Gaul, Italy, Africa)
Dr Mark Hebblewhite	Late Roman army, Late Roman imperial politics, numismatics
Associate Professor Jonathan Zecher	Late Ancient medicine, monasticism and ascetic movements, Justinianic law

Exploring the thought and history of the European Middle Ages, Renaissance, and early modern era.

Dr Michael Barbezat	Medieval European religious, intellectual and cultural history, history of Christianity, history of gender and sexuality
Professor Susan Broomhall
Professor Michael Champion	Reception of Classical thought and culture, emotions
Dr Clare Davidson
Dr Rachel Davies
Dr Benjamin DeSpain	Philosophy and theology (including Platonism), Thomas Aquinas, tradition
Emeritus Professor Peter Howard	Renaissance Italy (especially Florence), visual performance, art and theology
Professor Christopher Ocker	Reformation, religious conflict, early modern central Europe
Associate Professor Darius von Güttner Sporzynski	Church, papacy, Central Europe, Jagiellon dynasty, crusades, Hospitallers, identity
Associate Professor Jonathan Zecher	Early modern reception of Patristics, early modern book cultures

Exploring the culture, history, and thought of the medieval eastern mediterranean.

Professor Michael Champion	Psellos, Byzantine rhetoric, Byzantine Platonism, emotions
Dr Leonela Fundic	Byzantine art and archaeology, ritual, liturgy, history (especially Crusader period)
Dr Sarah Gador-Whyte	Byzantine hagiography, Byzantine liturgical poetry, religious conflict
Associate Professor Jonathan Zecher	Monasticism and literature, scribal cultures, tradition, marginalia, Philokalia

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