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 Interests

Publications

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.