Lecturer in Ancient History

MA (Oxon.), MPhil, PhD (Cantab.)

Tel: 0116 252 2613

Email: ahm11@le.ac.uk

I studied Modern History as an undergraduate at The Queen’s College, Oxford, before moving to Trinity College, Cambridge to do an MPhil and a PhD in early medieval history. After a further post-doctoral year as a Rouse-Ball Student at Trinity, I became a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on the History and Theory of Description project at King’s College, Cambridge. I then spent a year as a Solmsen Research Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, before coming to Leicester as an RCUK Research Fellow in the summer of 2005. I have been a full-time lecturer in the School since September 2010.

I have undertaken some archaeological work – both excavation (in Auvergne in Central France), and survey (in the Amblès Valley in Spain) – but increasingly my summers are spent in libraries, rather than in the field. In the summer of 2006 I was a Tytus Research Fellow at the Blegen Classics Library at the University of Cincinnati.

Research

• Research interests

Teaching

I am module co-ordinator for:

AH 1011: Introduction to Roman History

AH 2012: Sources and Methods in Ancient History

AH 3020: North Africa in Late Antiquity

AH 3063: The Ancient World on Film

I am the degree co-ordinator for BA Ancient History and History, and BA History and Archaeology.

I am also degree co-ordinator for the BA in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology by Distance Learning. 

Selected Recent Publications

The Vandals (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). co-authored (70%) with Richard Miles.

History and Geography in Late Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).

(ed.) Vandals, Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique North Africa (London: Ashgate, 2004)