Department of Ancient History

Staff

Academic Staff

ancient-staff andrewgillett 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
ancient-staff leabeness 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
ancient-staff susanne 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
ancient-staff brian 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
ancient-staff jennifer 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
ancient-staff malcolmchoat Dr Malcolm Choat
BA (Hons) Qld, PhD
Research interest: Coptic, Monasticism, Papyrology 
Telephone: (02) 9850 7561
Office: W6A 504
malcolm.choat@mq.edu.au
ancient-staff danijel 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
ancient-staff peteredwell 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
ancient-staff lindaevans

Dr Linda Evans
BA Hons (Adelaide), MA, PhD 
Research Interest: Animals in ancient art; Human-animal relationship in the ancient world 
Telephone: (02) 9850 8802
Office: W6A521
linda.evans@mq.edu.au

 

ancient-staff trevorevans 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
ancient-staff chrisforbes 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
ancient-staff victor-ghica 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
ancient-staff tomhillard 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
ancient-staff naguibkanawati 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
ancient-staff peterkeegan 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
ancient-staff samuelieu 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
ancient-staff stephenllewelyn 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
ancient-staff paulmckechnie 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
ancient-staff gunner 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
ancient-staff nobbs 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
ancient-staff brent-nongbri 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
ancient-staff boycook 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
ancient-staff kenparry 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
ancient-staff davidphillips 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
ancient-staff ianplant 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
ancient-staff kensheedy 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
ancient-staff arianna-traviglia 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
ancient-staff yann 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
ancient-staff lary 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
ancient-staff alexandrewoods 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

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Administration

(02) 9850 8833
Office: 
W6A 540

Emeriti and Retired Staff

Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge
Documentary Research Centre
Telephone: (02) 9850 7512 

Dr C.E.V. (Ted) Nixon
Telephone: (02) 9850 9264 
Office: X5B 319 
ted.nixon@mq.edu.au

Adjunct Professors and Honorary Fellows

Dr Rosalinde Kearsley
BA (USyd.); MA (USyd.), PhD, Grad Dip (Humanities, UNE) 
Telephone: (02) 9850 7933 
Office: W6A 526 
rosalinde.kearsley@.mq.edu.au

Dr John Lee
BA (USyd.); PhD, Cambridge, FAHA
Telephone: (02) 9399 7808 
Office: W6A 706 
lee121@bigpond.com

Dr Bruce Marshall
BA Sydney, MA Sydney, PhD Oxford
Telephone: (02) 9399 8833 
Office: W6A 540 
bruce.marshall@mq.edu.au

For a list of Adjunct Professors, Honorary Senior Research Fellows and Honorary Associates, consult the Directory of Macquarie University Ancient History Staff.

Documentary Research Centre

Dr Don Barker
Papyrology/Museum of Ancient Cultures
Telephone: (02) 9850 9962
Office: W6A 310 
don.barker@mq.edu.au

Mrs Pat Geidans 
Documentary Research Centre
Telephone: (02) 9850 7512
Office: W6A 310 
pat.geidans@mq.edu.au

Dr Margaret Smith 
Documentary Research Centre
Telephone: (02) 9850 7512
Office: W6A 310
margaret.smith@mq.edu.au

Rachel Yuen-Collingridge
Documentary Research Centre
Telephone: (02) 9850 7562
Office: W6A 312
yuencolling@gmail.com

Dr Greg Fox
Palmyrene Aramaic, Classical Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Lithuanian & Pacific linguistics
Telephone: (02) 9850 7789
Office: W6A329 
greg.fox@mq.edu.au

Australian Centre for Egyptology

Dr Ann McFarlane
Telephone: (02) 9850 8850
Office: W6A 532 
Ann.McFarlane@mq.edu.au

Mrs Beth Thompson
Telephone: (02) 9850 8846
Office: W6A 528 
beth.thompson@mq.edu.au

Museum of Ancient Cultures

Mr Karl Van Dyke
Manager
Telephone: (02) 9850 9263
Office: X5B 311 
karl.vandyke@mq.edu.au

Ms Philippa Medcalf
Education Officer
Telephone: (02) 9850 9262
Office: X5B 311
Philippa.Medcalf@mq.edu.au

Macquarie Ancient History Association

Mr Jim Hamilton 
Secretary
Telephone: (02) 9850 9965
Office: W6A306
jim.hamilton@mq.edu.au

Macquarie Ancient Languages School

Ms Jon Dalrymple
Telephone: (02) 9850 9962
Office: W6A 310 
jon.dalrymple@mq.edu.au