Professor David Mattingly
Professor of Roman Archaeology
BA, Ph.D. (Manc.), FSA, FBA
Tel: 0116 252 2610
Email: djm7@le.ac.uk
Following my BA in History at the University of Manchester, I completed a PhD under the supervision of Professor Barri Jones at the same University. I was a British Academy Post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford (1986-1989), then Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan before coming to Leicester in December 1991 as a Lecturer. I was promoted to Reader (1995) and Professor (1998). I held a British Academy Research Readership award from 1999-2001 and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2003.
I am currently Director of Research for the College of Arts, Humanities and Law (2009-2012). I also hold a major research grant from the European Research Council for the Trans-Sahara Project.
Research
For PhD supervision - topics available and past and present supervisees and themes - please see the Research Interests link above.
Teaching
I contribute to the teaching of Roman archaeology at Undergraduate level and at MA level, notably on the MA Archaeology of the Roman World.
Selected Recent Publications
(with D. Stone and N. Ben Lazreg). Leptiminus (Lamta): a Roman port city in Tunisia, Report no. 3, the Urban Survey. Ann Arbor, JRA Suppl. Pp. 494 + 164 pp gazetteers on CD
Imperialism, Power and Identity Experiencing the Roman Empire. Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. xxiv and 342.
(with C.M. Daniels, J.N. Dore, D. Edwards and J. Hawthorne). The Archaeology of Fazzan. Volume 3, Excavations carried out by C.M. Daniels. London, 2010. Pp. xxvi and 574.
(with A. Orejas and M. Clavel-Lévêque eds). From Present to Past through Landscape. CSIC, Madrid, 2009. Pp. 288.
(with G Barker, D Gilbertson et al.) Archaeology and Desertification: the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, southern Jordan. Oxbow, CBRL, Oxford (in press).
(with CM Daniels, JN Dore, D Edwards and J Hawthorne). The Archaeology of Fazzan. Volume 2, Site Gazetteer, Pottery and Other Survey Finds. London (2007). Pp xxx and 522. (edited by D. Mattingly).
(edited with G Shipley, J Vanderspoel and L Foxhall,). The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2006). Pp. xliv and 966.
An Imperial Possession. Britain in the Roman Empire. Penguin History of Britain Series. London (2006). Pp. xvi and 622. (Paperback edition 2007 with minor corrections).
