Department of Ancient History
Staff
Academic Staff
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Associate Professor Andrew Gillett Head of Department BA Qld, MA Tor., PhD Tor. Research Interest: Later Roman Empire, early medieval Europe Telephone: (02) 9850 9966 Office: W6A508 andrew.gillett@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Lea Beness Head - Learning and Teaching, Academic Adviser BA (Hons) New England, PhD New England Research Interest: Late Roman Republic; Roman biographical dictionary Telephone: (02) 9850 9375 Office: W6A 523 lea.beness@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Susanne Binder Associate Lecturer , PhD Macquarie University Staatsexamen (Tübingen), MA, PhD (Macquarie) Research Interest: Ancient Egypt in the New Kingdom, administration and society, prosopography, Egyptian archaeology and material culture Telephone: (02) 9850 6881 Office: W6A 537 Email: susanne.binder@mq.edu.au |
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Professor Brian Bosworth BPhil. Oxon, MA Oxon. Research Interest: Alexander the Great; the Hellenistic world; Greek and Roman historiography Telephone: (02) 9850 6809 Office: W6A 502 brian.bosworth@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Jennifer Cromwell BA, MA, PhD Liverpool (UK). Research interest: Egypt, Coptic, Papyrology Telephone: (02) 9850 8863 Office: W6A 501 jennifer.cromwell@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Malcolm Choat BA (Hons) Qld, PhD Research interest: Coptic, Monasticism, Papyrology Telephone: (02) 9850 7561 Office: W6A 504 malcolm.choat@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Danijel Dzino Australian Research Council Australian Postdoctoral Fellow BA (Hons), MA, PhD Adelaide Research Interests: History and archaeology of ancient and early medieval Dalmatia and Pannonia (modern-day Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia); modern perception of ancient and early medieval identites amongst the south Slavs, history of the Southeastern Europe (the 'Balkans'). Telephone: +61 2 9850 8751 Office: W6A 328 danijel.dzino@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Peter Edwell B.Com Wollongong, BA (Hons), PhD Research Interest: Roman Eastern Provinces in Late Antiquity Telephone: (02) 9850 8845 Office: W6A516 peter.edwell@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Linda Evans
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Dr Trevor Evans BA (Hons) (UNE), PhD Usyd Research Interest: Greek, Latin, Papyrology, Language of the Septuagint Telephone: (02) 9850 8780 Office: W6A503 trevor.evans@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Chris Forbes BA (Hons), PhD Research Interest: New Testament studies; Hellenistic history and history of ideas; the intersection of early Christianity and Graeco-Roman culture Telephone: (02) 9850 8821 Office: W6A 536 christopher.forbes@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Victor Ghica MA Rome, MA Paris, PhD Paris, ThD Quebec-City Research Interest: Coptic Papyrology and Epigraphy; Early Christian, Gnostic and Manichaean Literatures; History of Christianity in the Western and Eastern Deserts of Egypt; Egyptian monasticism; Coptic Arabic Literature; Coptic, Syriac and Byzantine Patristics Telephone: (02) 9850 6800 Office: W6A 541 victor.ghica@mq.edu.au |
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Associate Professor Tom Hillard Academic Adviser BA Syd., PhD Research Interest: The political history of the Roman Republic; Roman social history; the underwater investigation of Torone, northern Greece Telephone: (02) 9850 8862 Office: W6A 515 thomas.hillard@mq.edu.au |
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Professor Naguib Kanawati MA Alexandria, PhD, FAHA Research Interest: Egyptian history, civilisation and language; excavating and recording tombs at Giza and Saqqara Telephone: (02) 9850 8855 Office: W6A 535 naguib.kanawati@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Peter Keegan B.A. (Hons), Ph.D, Grad. Dip. Hum. Classical Languages (University of New England). Research Interest: Latin Epigraphy, Gender, Sexuality and Body History; Late Republican and Early Imperial Historiography and Historical Theory. Telephone: (02) 9850 8819 Office: W6A 512 peter.keegan@mq.edu.au |
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Professor Samuel Lieu MA Camb., D Phil. Oxford, FRAS, FRHistS, FSA, FAHA Research Interest: Roman imperial history and historiography; Manichaeism; Silk Road Studies Telephone: (02) 9850 8882 or 7899 or 7512 Office: W6A 514 sam.lieu@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Stephen Llewelyn BA, BD Syd., PhD Research Interest: New Testament Studies; Papyrology; Qumran and Second Temple Judaism. The Dead Sea Scrolls; Greek and Hebrew languages Telephone: (02) 9850 8843 Office: W6A 539 stephen.llewelyn@mq.edu.au |
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Associate Professor Paul McKechnie MA Cantab., D.Phil Oxon. Research Interest: Classical and Hellenistic Greece; Roman History; Early Christianity Telephone: (02) 9850 8782 Office: W6A500 paul.mckechnie@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Gunner Mikkelsen MA Aarhus, PhD Aarhus Research Interest: sinology and history of religions, especially the spread and meeting of religions along the Silk Road, in Central Asia, and in China. Telephone: (02) 9850 8868 Office: W6A 522 gunner.mikkelsen@mq.edu.au |
| Professor Alanna Nobbs BA Syd., PhD Syd. Research Interest: Historical background of Early Christianity; Greek papyri documenting the Christianisation of Egypt; Late antique and early Byzantine history and historiography Telephone: (02) 9850 8844 Office: W6A 317 alanna.nobbs@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Brent Nongbri Post Doctoral Fellow in Early Christianity BA University of Texas at Austin; MA, MPhil, PhD Yale University Research Interests: Early Christianity and ancient Judaism, method and theory in the study of religion, papyrology, textual criticism, archeology, and historiography Telephone: (02) 9850 8815 Office: W6A 336 brent.nongbri@mq.edu.au Personal Website: http://mq.academia.edu/BrentNongbri |
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Associate Professor Boyo Ockinga MA Auck., DPhil Tübingen Research Interest: Ancient Egyptian philology, history and religion; Egypt and Old Testament; Egyptian New Kingdom tombs Telephone: (02) 9850 8852 Office: W6A 533 boyo.ockinga@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Ken Parry BA, PhD Manchester Research Interest: Byzantine cultural and intellectual history; Eastern Christianity; Patristics; Early Christianity in Asia; Silk Road Studies Telephone: (02) 9850 7937 Office: W6A 518 ken.parry@mq.edu.au |
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Dr David Phillips BA Monash, TSTC Monash Teachers' College, PhD Research Interest: Archaic and Classical Greek political and social history; Athenian politics 430s-390s BC; Attic epigraphy; the 5th century Athenian empire; revolts in the Athenian empire; Athenian ostracism; the cults of Attika Telephone: (02) 9850 8874 Office: W6A 524 david.phillips@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Ian Plant MA, PhD Canterbury Research Interest: Greek historiography, in particular the rhetoric of Thucydides; Greek history of the 5th and 4th centuries BC; women writers of Greece and Rome; the teaching of Greek and Latin Telephone: (02) 9850 8880 Office: W6A 538 ian.plant@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Ken Sheedy MA, PhD Syd. Director, Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (ACANS) Telephone: (02) 9850 8807 Office: W6A 517 ken.sheedy@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Arianna Traviglia Laurea Magistrale (Venice), Specialisation in Archaeology (Trieste), PhD (Trieste) Macquarie University Research Fellow Research Interest: Landscape archaeology, Ancient Topography, Roman and Late Antiquity Archaeology, Informatic applications to Archaeology, Remote Sensing and GIS applications in Landscape research, Land division systems, Agricultural landscapes, Water management systems, Archaeological fieldwork Telephone: (02) 9850 8889 Office: W6A338 arianna.traviglia@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Yann Tristant PhD Paris Research Interest: Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt; settlement archaeology; geoarchaeology; human occupation and natural landscape; archaeology of the Nile Delta and the Memphite Region Telephone: (02) 9850 8851 Office: W6A 525 yann.tristant@mq.edu.au |
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Professor Laurence Welborn BA Harding College, MAR Yale Divinity School, PhD Vanderbilt University Research Interest: New Testament and Early Christian literature in its Graeco-Roman context Telephone: (02) 9850 8886 Office: W6A 501 larry.welborn@mq.edu.au |
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Dr Alexandra Woods BA (Hons), PhD Research Interest: Egyptian art, history and language Telephone: (02) 9850 8850 Office: W6A 532 alex.woods@mq.edu.au |






























