Dr Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Lecturer in Ancient History
BA (Cantab.), MA (London), Ph.D. (Cantab.)
Email: nm241@leicester.ac.uk
Naoíse studied for her undergraduate degree at King’s College Cambridge and her Master’s at University College London, returning to Cambridge and King’s College for her PhD. She then spent a short time in policy research working on conflict, development and race relations. Returning to Cambridge in 2008, She became a Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, before moving to Leicester to join the School as Lecturer in Ancient History in January 2011.
RESEARCH PROJECT: Cultural Heritage and Peacebuilding
Teaching
Naoíse is the Course Director for the MA in the Classical Mediterranean, for both distance learning and campus-based students.
She is currently also the Module Coordinator for the following campus-based undergraduate modules:
AH1009: Language Tools for Ancient History: Latin
AH2037: The Aegean and the Near East
AH3072: Imperialism Ancient and Modern
Selected Recent Publications
Mac Sweeney, N. (2011) Community Identity and Archaeology: Dynamic communities at Aphrodisias and Beycesultan. Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
Mac Sweeney, N. (2011) ‘Strange and Estranged: Perceiving cultural contacts in Late Bronze Age – Early Iron Age Anatolia’, in K. Duisterrnaat and I. Regulski (eds) Intercultural Contacts in the Ancient Mediterranean. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 202. Leuven: Peeters. pp 67-77.
Mac Sweeney, N. (2010) ‘Rhetoric and reality: the clash of civilisations from Classical Greece to today’, OpenDemocracy, ‘Lest we Forget’ series. 01/10/10.
Mac Sweeney, N. (2009) ‘Beyond Ethnicity: The Overlooked Diversity of Group Identities’. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1: 101-126.

