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outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

collapsed Roman basilica wall at Leicester

Read about the city's archaeology in the new publication Visions of Ancient Leicester

Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Key Contacts

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Dr Gillian Ramsey

Teaching Fellow in Ancient History
MA (UVic), PhD (Exeter)

Tel: 01162523010
Email: gcr10@le.ac.uk

 

After finishing a BA Honours in History at the University of Regina (Saskatchewan, Canada) and an MA in Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada), I came to the UK and completed  my PhD at the University of Exeter in 2009. I joined the School of Archaeology & Ancient History in 2009 as a Teaching Fellow to assist in teaching Ancient History modules.

 

Research Interests

My research looks into the ways people acquired and handled royal and political power in the Hellenistic near east, concentrating mainly on the Seleucid kingdom. I am currently working on a number of projects within this topic, including Seleucid queenship, friendship networks and royal hostages, Seleucid colonisation and changing concepts of geography.
I have a strong interest in epigraphy, and in summer 2010 assisted Stephen Mitchell with squeeze-making for the collection of inscriptions from Ankara, Turkey held at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. I am also a member of the British Epigraphy Society and the Association Internationale d’Epigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL). I am also an External Research Associate of the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (WIHS).

 

Teaching

I have a wide range of teaching interests and contribute to a number of the Ancient History modules at Leicester.  I am module coordinator for AH1008 (Language Tools for Ancient History: Greek), AH2020 (Politics and Society in the Roman Republic) and AH2027 (Classical and Post-Classical Latin).


Dissertation topics which I could supervise include:

  • Alexander the Great / Hellenistic royalty
  • Hellenistic near east
  • Women’s or Gender history in antiquity
  • Ancient imperialism and administration
  • Hellenistic east interactions with Rome

 

Recent Publications

  • 2011. 'The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities.' Gender and History 23/3: Gender and the City before Modernity, Lin Foxhall & Gabriele Neher, eds. p. 510-527. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2011.01655.x/abstract
  • 2011. Seleucid Dissolution, the Sinking of the Anchor: Fragmentation and Transformation of empire. Kyle Erickson and Gillian Ramsey, eds. Philippika: Marburger altertumskundliche Abhandlungen, 50. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag. Including the chapter: 'Seleucid Administration: Effectiveness and Dysfunction Among Officials,' p. 37-49. http://www.buchhandel.de/detailansicht.aspx?isbn=9783447065887
  • Forthcoming 2012. 'Seleucid Empire, Colonization and Settlement,' in The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Immanuel Ness, ed. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

 

Reviews:

  • 2011. 'Andrew Erskine, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Creating a Hellenistic World,' BMCR 2011.10.23
  • 2010. 'T. M. Lemos, Marriage Gifts and Social Change in Ancient Palestine: 1200 BCE to 200 CE.' BMCR 2010.12.37.
  • 2007. 'Austin, M. The Hellenistic World from Alexander to the Roman Conquest. A Selection of Ancient Sources in Translation. 2nd edition, 2006 and Bugh, G. R., ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World, 2006.' Classical Review 57/2: 449-452.