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Doctoral research in our department
We welcome higher degree research students exploring exciting theses across topics in Ancient History, Archaeology and Modern History.
Our research students are currently working on the following projects:
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Eleuterio Abreu De Sousa | Egyptian Trade and the Levantine Cattle Economy during the Early Bronze Age (c. 3100–2100 BC) |
| Scott Allan | The Second Dynasty: On the Cusp of the Pyramid Age |
| Lydia Bashford | Egyptian Observations of the Avian World: Categorisation through human, bird, language, and landscape interactions |
| Timothy Blizzard | Scipio Africanus, Marius and the Cohort: Innovation and Manoeuvre Warfare in the Republican Army |
| Elizabeth Brice | Into the Wild: An examination of the function and significance of zoomorphic figurines in early Egypt |
| Ian Brown | A prosopographical study of priests of the mansions of millions of years of the Ramesside period. |
| John Burke | The Evolution of the False Door in the Egyptian Old Kingdom: A study of form and function over time |
| David Chapman | A prosopographical study of officials associated with the Temples of Montu |
| Emily Corbin | Reptile Relations: The Cultural Construction of Lizards in Ancient Egypt |
| Patricia Dean | The Judahite Kingdom in the Shephelah in the Iron Age I–IIA |
| Ian Debenham | The Roman shipbuilding industry |
| Loren Demol | Graffiti as Decoration: The Relationship between Inscription and Surface in Pompeii |
| Joel DowlingSoka | Making Saints into Soldiers: Case Studies in the Militarisation of Religious Figures in the Eastern Mediterranean from 600–1148 CE |
| Lauren Dundler | Rethinking Engagement with and Consumption of the Past: An Ethical Framework for the 21st Century Antiquities Market |
| Suzanne Eiszele-Evans | The Influences and Life of Mereruka Using Tomb Art |
| Joshua Errington | Processes in the Site Formation of the City Of David ridge, Jerusalem |
| Martin Feltham | A literary and historical analysis of the first letter to Timothy |
| Jenny Ferber | Tribute to a Disappearing World: Abu al-Makarem’s account of Christendom |
| Graham Fitzpatrick | Ethical Positions of Livy and Tacitus compared and contrasted |
| Gemma Green | Divinity, Divergence and Dire Times: Egyptian Kings and the Fall of the Old Kingdom |
| John Guerra | Between a Rock and a Hard Place: the History of Early Christianity Amid Rome and Judaism, Judea 30–66 CE |
| Laura Harris | The welfare of ancient Egyptian livestock in the New Kingdom Period |
| Sophie Harris | Metaphors and their Rhetorical Significance in Middle Egyptian Wisdom Literature |
| Michael Hayes | ‘Extending Egypt’s Limits’, Reaching New Frontiers: ‘Rethinking’ the New Kingdom’s Military and Dynastic, Religious and Philosophical Experiences and Discourses |
| Genevieve Holt | Art as Social Object: Theoretical Approaches to the Depiction of Buildings in New Kingdom Egypt |
| Michael Ibrahim | Memorialising Divine Suffering. The reception of Serverian Theopaschite Thought in Sixth Century Byzantium |
| Heather Johnston | A Woman’s Work is Never Done: Societal change and the role of Women from the Old to the Middle Kingdom |
| Emma Kaula | Dressing the Elamite Body: dress, its function, and experiences of dress in Elamite society between c. 4200 and 525 BC |
| Susan Kelly | Female Engagement in Domains of Social Power in Ancient Egypt’s Dynasties 1–6: An interdisciplinary approach to women’s titles |
| Alexandra Kujanpaa | Imperial Ceremonial in the Hippodrome at Constantinople from Constantine to Justinian (330–565 AD) |
| Shyam Lee-Joe | The Interrelationship between the Viziers and their Subordinates in the Hierarchical Administrative Structure of the Old Kingdom of Egypt |
| Meg Lisle | The involvement of women in ancient Egyptian religious practice from the old kingdom to the Ptolemaic period |
| Christine Mair | Women of The Western Desert: Life in the Oases Villages of Egypt from Late Antiquity and Byzantine Period |
| Charlotte Mann | Messages in Myth: Numismatic Self-Presentation in the Antonine Age |
| Rachel Mansfield | A numismatic study of provinces of Syria in the era of the Severan Emperors |
| Dustin McKenzie | The Strait of Messana in Roman Ideology: Identity, Landscape, and Imperialism |
| Emil Mihajlov | The Greek Eastern Adriatic |
| Jane Milliken | Wine for the Living: An Examination of Non-Religious Texts of the Ancient Egyptians that Contain References to Wine |
| Samantha Mills | Does absence of iconography equal absence of rulership? Ruler ideology across the Mediterranean, Second Millennium BC |
| Nicole Moffatt | A World both Small and Wide: the Letter-Bearer’s Journey from Cicero to Jerome |
| Natalie Mylonas | Emotion, Space, and Power: Jerusalem as Contested Space in Ezekiel 16 |
| Brikha Nasoraia | A Critical Edition of the Mandaean DC 7 Diwan Nahrawatha, the Sacred Waterways/Rivers Scroll Translation, Commentary and a Study of Textual Archaeology, Mysticism and Traditional Esoteric Art and Symbolism of the Ancient Near East |
| Robert Parker | A History and Chronology of the Governors of Beni Hassan during the Middle Kingdom |
| Aymie Paull | The influence of the old kingdom on middle kingdom wall scenes: A case study of Beni Hassan and Meir |
| Susan Price | A linguistic, codicological, and palaeographic study of MONB.FI |
| Carlos Robinson | Uprisings in Alexandria: Civil Disobedience and Political Violence in Ptolemaic History |
| Wendy Robinson | An examination of river boat transport as depicted in ancient Egyptian tomb scenes of the Old and Middle Kingdoms |
| Judy Simpson | Livestock plagues in Rome: their origins, significance, and impact from the beginning of the Republic until the sixth century AD |
| Gillian Smith | A Phenomenological Approach to Ancient Egyptian Festivals as Social, Aesthetic and Symbolic Events |
| Murray Smith | Jesus and the final coming of God: The logic of early Christian “second coming” expectation and its origin in Jesus’ eschatological vision |
| Elizabeth Stockdale | Female Values in the Odyssey |
| Lindsay Stoddart | Reflections on the place of Christian women in Sydney society through the lens of Anglican Deaconess Ministries |
| Roshini Thomas | Artistic Transmission in the sixth dynasty |
| Charles Thorne | Justinian I and the early Byzantine civic bishop: a legislative history (6–8th centuries) |
| Aimee Turner | Caesar’s Consort: Images of Livia from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period |
| Lyndelle Webster | Synchronising the Chronologies of the Late Bronze Age Southern Levant and Egypt: A Radiocarbon Dating Perspective |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| John Burn | The A.R.I.D. Hypothesis. A River in Drought: Environmental and Cultural Ramifications of Old Kingdom Climate Change |
| Thérèse Clarke | It’s a Long Way to the Top. Elite male leadership career trajectories and social status within Egypt’s provinces during the Old Kingdom |
| Rodney Cross | Clangores, stridores et sibili – animal sounds in ancient Latin literature from 55 BC to AD 180 |
| Michael Deegan | “Over Them Was King Ardban.” History, Narrative, the Haran Gawaita, and the Origin of the Mandaeans |
| David Evans | Christians in Athens in the First Two Centuries: From Paul to Bishop Quadratus |
| James Gersbach | The war cry in the ancient Mediterranean world |
| Lynn Gray | The Visitation in Australia: A Social History of a Christian Prophetic Movement |
| Eveline Handby | Illicit digital communities: Understanding the trade in fake antiquities on YouTube and Instagram |
| Deborah Hope | Lustre: The Pearl Trade In Antiquity |
| Mark Kulikovsky | A Broader Friendship: The Johannine Transformation of Philia into a ‘Fellowship of Truth and Love’ |
| Katherine Shead | A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of Child Burial in Southern Mesopotamia from the EDII to Isin-Larsa Periods |
| Antonia St Demiana | Sahidic Coptic Leviticus: Its Manuscript Witnesses and Its Text |
| Samuel Wessels | The Language of the Old Greek Sections of Septuagint (LXX) Kingdoms |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Rodney Buckton | People, Energy, Technology: Social and Economic Acceleration in Victoria, 1851–1914 |
| Dominic Caron | “Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill More Japs”: American and Australian attitudes towards the Japanese during the Second World War |
| Jack Clear | A Transnational Study of Settler Colonial Warfare in the United States and Australia: Geronimo, Jandamarra, and the role of the Freedom Fighter |
| Adalia Draghici | Remote Warfare, and Warfare Via Remote: Shifting Civil-military Relations and Cultural Experiences of War in the US from Vietnam to the Gulf |
| Abbie Hartman | When This is All Over and the War is Won They Will Remember Us: Public History, War and the Power of Memorialisation in Games |
| Alexandria Hawkins | Breaking Silence: A History of Domestic Violence in Rural and Urban New South Wales, 1974–2016 |
| Katharine Hawkins | The Other Woman: The Monstrous Feminine as Feminist Praxis |
| Spencer Kassimir | American influences on Rugby League in Australia |
| Margaret Jean Kelly | Male Privilege and Entitlement as Experienced and Navigated by Transgender Women and Transgender Men |
| Marian Lorrison | Mapping the evolution of the new woman in New South Wales, 1880–1914 |
| Morwenna MacGillivray | A comparative study of the experiences of senior female leaders in the different armed forces of the UK, US and Australia |
| Georgia McWhinney | More disease-ridden outfits: The British dominion forces and preventative folk medicine in the First World War |
| Michael Nicholls | Masculinity and ‘the Millions Club’ in Interwar Australia, 1920–1939 |
| Emma Sarian | The History of Race in Australia, Reconsidered |
| Saartje Tack | Suicide and the Prevention Narrative |
| Amy Way | How deep is your time? A History of Australian Antiquity |
| Student name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Kylie-Ann Flack | Packaging the Past for Children: Australian historical novels and picture books for children since 1945 |
| Jarrod Hore | Visions of Nature: Territoriality and Landscape Photography in Three Settler Sites, 1848–1900 |
| Jennifer McLaren | Irish Lives in the British Caribbean: Engaging with Empire in the Revolutionary Era |