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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...

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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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Ranked 9th in the Guardian University Guide 2013

 

Dr Naoise Mac Sweeney

Naiose MacSweeneyLecturer in Ancient History

BA (Cantab.), MA (London), PhD (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.

 

Click on the links below for fuller details of my research work and publications:

Research Interests

Publications

 

Teaching

Course director for the MA in the Classical Mediterranean

 

Undergraduate modules include:

AH2037: Interaction and Exchange: Greece, Egypt and Mesopotamia

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. (available online at: http://www.opendemocracy.net/naoise-macsweeney/tracing-clash-of-civilisations)

Mac Sweeney, N. (2010) ‘Hittites and Arzawans: A view from western Anatolia’, Anatolian Studies 60: 7-24.

Mac Sweeney, N. (2009) ‘Beyond Ethnicity: The Overlooked Diversity of Group Identities’. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 22.1: 101-126.