People

Our research, teaching and support staff in Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology.

Additional room numbers and telephone extensions can be found in the staff directory.

Head of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology, and Egyptology


Prof. Peter Liddel
Professor of Greek History and Epigraphy

Research specialisms: Greek political and social history, Attic oratory (especially post-Social War), Greek inscriptions, 19th-century historiography, ancient Greek historiography. 


Academic staff


Dr Julene Abad Del Vecchio
Lecturer in Classical Literature and Culture

Research specialisms: Latin literature (esp. Statius), intertextuality (esp. in Flavian literature), ancient epistolography.  


Dr Mary Beagon
Reader in Ancient History (Roman)

Research specialisms Cultural and intellectual history of the late Roman Republic and early Empire.


Dr Ina Berg
Senior Lecturer in Archaeology

Research specialisms: Bronze Age Aegean, island studies, quantitative analysis of pottery and the use of ceramics.


Dr Jenny Bryan
Senior Lecturer in Classical Philosophy / SALC Associate Director for Assessment 

Research specialisms: Ancient Philosophy (especially Plato and the Presocratics), genre in Ancient Philosophy.


Prof. Stuart Campbell
Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology

Research specialisms: Archaeology of the Near and Middle East, social meanings of pottery, scientific archaeology and the use of computers in archaeology.


Prof. Hannah Cobb
Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy / University Lead for Academic Development 

Research specialisms: The theory and philosophy of archaeology, the archaeology of the Mesolithic-Neolithic in Britain and Europe.


Dr Alberto Esu 

Research Specialisms: Classical and Hellenistic Greek History; Political and Institutional History.


Dr Andrew Fear

Lecturer in Ancient History

Research specialisms: The history of the Roman Empire, Roman provincial history (especially Britain and Spain), the Roman army in Roman and Visigothic periods, early Christianity.


Prof. Melanie Giles FBA
Professor of European Prehistory 

Research specialisms: Iron Age histories, the archaeology of identity and personhood, studies of landscape and place, material culture and art.


Dr Adrian Gramps 

Research Specialisms: Greek and Latin Poetry.


Dr Duncan Keenan-Jones

Lecturer in Classical Archaeology

Research specialisms: relationship between society, technology, and climate in the (ancient) Mediterranean and Australia, archaeological science/geoarchaeology, historical solutions to contemporary problems. 


Prof. Christian Laes
Professor of Ancient History / UG Programme Director 

Research specialisms: Socio-cultural history of (Late) Antiquity, epigraphy, Neo-Latin, didactics of Latin and Ancient Greek.


Dr Leah Lazar 

Research Specialisms: Classical and Hellenistic Greek History; Numismatics.


Dr Ruth Morello

Senior Lecturer in Classics / MA Programme Director

Research specialisms: Greek and Roman historiography (especially Livy), Augustan literature, Roman national identity and imperial ideology, ancient epistolography.


Dr Laura Nastasi 

Research Specialisms: Greek language and linguistics.


Dr Nicky Nielsen
Senior Lecturer in Egyptology 

Research specialisms: Egyptian archaeology and the material culture of New Kingdom Egypt, with emphasis on ceramics and craft production.


Dr Tom Phillips
Senior Lecturer in Classics

Research specialisms: Greek and Latin Lyric poetry, Hellenistic poetry, Homer, ancient scholarship, literary theory, Romanticism.


Prof. Peter Pormann
Professor of Classics and Graeco-Arabic Studies

Research specialisms: Ancient Medical writings, the Graeco-Arabic tradition.


Prof. Alison Sharrock
Hulme Professor of Latin

Research specialisms: Latin poetry (particularly Ovid and Augustan poetry), comedy, Lucan, genre, intertextuality and critical theory.


Dr Katherine Slinger
Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology

Research specialisms: Egyptian tomb architecture and decoration, Middle Kingdom Theban necropolis (esp. tomb distribution). 


Dr Silvia Speriani
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Research specialisms: Latin literature (especially Horace, Seneca and Pliny the Younger), Roman culture, cognitive and linguistic approaches to Latin literature. 


Dr John Taylor
Lecturer in Greek and Latin Language

Research specialisms: Greek and Latin languages and literature, Greek and Roman history.


Prof. Julian Thomas
Professor of Archaeology

Research specialisms: Archaeology of Neolithic Britain and Europe, the theory and philosophy of archaeology, the status of archaeology as a discourse of modernity.


Dr Manos Tsakiris 

Research Specialisms: Greek Literature.


Dr Huw Twiston Davies

Lecturer in Egyptology

Research specialisms: transmission and social context of Middle and New Kingdom literature, material philology of Egyptian text, oral context of the written. 


Prof. Joyce Tyldesley
Professor of Egyptology

Research specialisms: distance-learning Egyptology, Egyptian historiography, women in ancient Egypt.


Emeritus Professors


Prof. Tim Cornell
Professor Emeritus of Ancient History

Research specialisms: historiography, the history of warfare, urbanism and ethnicity, and all aspects of the history of Rome and Italy in the archaic and republican periods.


Prof. David Langslow FBA
Hulme Professor of Latin Emeritus

Research specialisms: Latin and Greek language (historical and literary aspects); language, literature and social history of ancient medicine; the making and transmission of Latin and Greek medical texts.


Prof. John Prag
Professor Emeritus of Classics and Ancient History

Research specialisms: Greek iconography and mythology, facial reconstruction, ancient portraiture, chemical analysis of Greek pottery, application of ancient DNA research.


Prof Stephen Todd
Professor Emeritus of Ancient History

Research specialisms: Greek social and legal history, Attic orators (especially Lysias).


Honorary Research Fellows


Dr Dalida Agri 

Research specialisms: Augustan and post-Augustan poetry.


Dr Nicolò Benzi

Research specialisms: Ancient philosophy, Greek and Latin language and literature, the intellectual history of the ancient world.


Dr John Briscoe

Research specialisms: Latin Literature and Textual Criticism, Roman and Hellenistic History.


Dr Thomas Clements

Research specialisms: Greek History


Dr Elizabeth Foley

Research specialisms: Greek History


Dr Elizabeth Healey

Research specialisms: Archaeology, Obsidian, Lithics, Material Culture studies.


Dr Alastar Jackson

Research specialisms: Ancient Greek History (especially concerning the city of Corinth), Ancient Greek and Roman weaponry and armour.


Dr Roberta Mazza 

Research specialisms: papyrology, Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Egypt, legal and illegal antiquities market (Egyptian and other antiquities). 


Dr Katherine Molesworth 

Research specialisms: Lycophron’s Alexandra, Hellenistic poetry and Aesthetics, Ancient Greek Literature, visuality, gender expression and performance.


Dr William Mundy

Co-ordinator, Classics for All Manchester


Dr Nick Overton

Research specialisms: Mesolithic Britain and Europe, European Prehistory, Hunter-Gatherer archaeology, Human-Animal relationships, Zooarchaeology and Social Zooarchaeology.


Dr Antonia Sarri

Research specialisms: Papyrology, epistolography, textual criticism, Xenophon


Prof Alessandro Schiesaro 

Research specalisms: Latin literature (especially Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, Lucretius, Horace, and Seneca), literary theory, psychoanalysis, and cultural history. 


Dr Hanna Steyne Chamberlin

Research specialisms: Archaeology


Dr John Peter Wild

Research specialisms: Archaeology, archaeological textiles.


Dr Alexandra Wilding

Research specialisms: Greek History.


Professional support staff


Teaching, Learning and Student Experience Team
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programme Administration 


Emma Wadsworth
Departmental Administrator


Undergraduate Admissions


Postgraduate (Taught) Admissions


Dr John Piprani
Archaeology Technician

Research specialisms: Early European Prehistory, stone tools, teaching and learning.


Associated academic staff


Gillian Evans
Lecturer in Social Anthropology


Anthony Gerbino
Senior Lecturer in Art History 


Charles Insley
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History


Todd Klutz
Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies and Early Christian Literature 


Peter Oakes
Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis 


Paul Oldfield
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History


Kay Prag
Visiting Academic, The Manchester Museum


Campbell Price
Curator of Egypt and Sudan, The Manchester Museum 


Alexander Samely
Professor of Jewish Thought


Bryan Sitch
Deputy Head of Collections, The Manchester Museum