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I have been employed by the department as an Occasional Teacher to undertake the marking of first year source analysis scripts.
I am responsible for conducting both the first and second year seminars which focus on different literary sources and their depictions of tyranny in the ancient world. I am also conducting the marking of first year source analysis assessments.
I am responsible for the delivery of both the first and second year seminars for this module. The topics we discuss are: Foundations and the Colonization Debate Equality and the polis Early Law Codes Cult Centres and the Panhellenic Community Coinage and the polis
I am also undertaking the marking of first year summer exams.
I work with primary school teachers training them to deliver Latin following the Maximum Classics syllabus:
https://maximumclassics.com/
How do professional historians ‘do’ history? Why do they do it that way? What essential practical and intellectual tools does a student need to ‘do’ history? Academic history is not merely about knowledge of the past, it is also a particular methodology – a distinctive way of reading, thinking, questioning, analyzing and presenting. This module will introduce you to this methodology and the working practices and concepts that a history student needs to master.
I deliver first year seminars on the following topics:
Social order: In this seminar we look at some of the ways in which medieval and early modern writers conceived of their societies across the world. We will encounter various interpretive models (such as the ‘Three/Four Orders’ and ‘Circle of Justice’) and will consider how and why these models were chosen and the degree to which they reflect social reality.
Power and authority I: This seminar introduces themes of power and authority: how states and rulers sought to assert authority and how this varied across time and space. A particular focus is on how new regimes were constructed on the basis of earlier states and empires in Europe, the Middle East and China, and how far these marked a break from the past. Another central consideration is taxation and the part this played (or did not play) in the resulting polities.
Power and authority II: The purpose of this seminar is to think about processes of ‘state formation’ in the early modern world. The emergence of academic political history in the nineteenth century tended to treat the sovereign, politically unified western European nation-state as the ‘natural’ outcome of processes of state-building. However, most early modern states were not like that. The seminar compares the power structures of two of the most important (and competing) powers in the early modern world, the possessions of the Spanish monarchy, and the Ottoman Empire. Neither resembled a ‘modern’ unified nation-state, and the power of the sovereign operated very differently in each regime but also very differently across their territories. Both existed for long periods of time without following the pattern of development that nineteenth-century theorists believed was ‘inevitable’.
Temple societies: This seminar introduces the role of religion in societies of pre-modern North Africa and Eurasia. Starting from the concept of a ‘temple society’ (or ‘temple economy’), it asks how far patterns of religious patronage across the three major religions of Afro-Eurasia (Christianity, Islam, Buddhism) conform to a shared model. The aim is to achieve a sense of both structural similarities and distinctive differences, particularly in how religion, economy and secular authority interact across time and space.
Early Modern Christianity: The ‘Reformation’ lecture complements this seminar. The lecture focuses on the fragmentation of western Christianity in the sixteenth century, exploring how and why Protestantism emerged and how Catholics responded. This seminar casts the net more widely to consider what happened when Europeans began to try to export these forms of Christianity to other parts of the globe in the early modern period.
I also undertake the marking of autumn and spring term essays and summer term exam papers.
The purpose of this seminar is to think about processes of ‘state formation’ in the early modern world.
I create and lead first year seminars on the following topics:
Herodotus, Strabo and other authors on the Greek World
Archaic Greece: Hesiod and Others
Sparta: Xenophon and Plutarch
Sources for Economic and Social Life
Curse tablets and Greek religion
I also delivered a lecture to both first and second year students (approximately 150 students): Enslavement, Trade and the Economy
I was asked to created video and bibliographic resources on curse tablets for the University of Exeter/ University of Leiden MA module in epigraphy. These resources were created for MA students with the assumption of no prior knowledge, either of curse tablets or ancient languages. There was a general introduction with some examples and an introduction as to how these curse tablets have been presented and catalogued this was then linked to the overarching themes of the course, including thinking of inscriptions as physical objects. There was a particular focus on tablets from the Sanctuary of Sulis Minerva at Bath to tie into fieldwork opportunities.
My teaching in the second term of this module focused on the Roman literature, with a focus on three core texts:
Catullus, 64
Virgil, Aeneid
Ovid, Metamorphoses
The seminars focused on a variety of themes including:
Intertextuality and allusion in Catullus 64
Epic reconsidered- looking at what can and cannot be described as an epic and what features of epic and other literary genres can be seen in the Aeneid.
I lead the first year seminars for this introductory course on Roman history. The focus in the seminars is on the learning and practicing of close source analysis skills. I am also undertaking the marking of the first year essays.
Seminar topics covered include:
Between Myth and History: Literary v. Archaeological Evidence for Early Rome
The Roman Triumph
Rome and Greece
Politics in Action
Augustus and his Public Image
I am part of a team working on online resources for the Researcher Development team at the university. The topics covered are: Project Managing Your Research Degree Starting Your Thesis: Preparing for Your Literature Review Writing Your Thesis Presentation Skills for Researchers and Designing Research Posters Working Effectively with Your Supervisors Writing Journal Articles Creative and Digital Research Communication Methods Momentum, Productivity and Wellbeing During Your Research Degree These resources are designed to help the Post Graduate Researchers develop important skills to enable their success. Each topic will form a small ‘course’ than can be worked through in full, or dipped in and out of depending on the particular aspect of the topic Postgraduate Reseachers are interested in. I was tasked with creating the resources for: Working Effectively with Your Supervisors
Post-Graduate Teaching Assistant for the first yesr seminars, the topics covered included:
Strabo
Homer
Plutarch
Herodotus
AristophanesFile
Xenophon
Plato
Epigraphic Inscriptions
The Alexander Legend
Aelius Aristides
I also undertook the marking of source analysis assessments and the end of year exam papers.
