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Aman members and projects

NameInstitutionEmailCurrent ProjectsKeywords
Umberto AlbarellaUniversity of Sheffield[email protected]The contribution of animals to the history of Britain animals in the Mediterranean, especially Italy (primarily) and Greece. zooarchaeology, domestication, husbandry, rituals, Italy, Greece.
Felix SadebeckUniversity of Exeter, University of Bristol[email protected]SWW-DTP funded PhD project: Conquest by Cattle – Investigating Changing Cattle Husbandry Practices in Roman South EnglandRoman Cattle; Geometric Morphometrics; Stable Isotope Analysis; Livestock Mobility.
Albert BatesUniversity of Cambridge[email protected]Animals and Aesthetics in Classical Art HistoryOctopus, peacock, mimesis, ornament, aesthetics.
Steven D. SmithHofstra University[email protected]Theophylact Simocatta; Aelian; animals in Greek, Roman, and early Byzantine literatureTheophylact Simocatta, Aelian.
Guendalina Daniela Maria TaiettiUniversity of Liverpool[email protected]Human/non-human animal relationships, hybrids, vegetarianism, veterinary Dog, pig, vegetarianism, hybrids, veterinary, ecology.
Sian LewisUniversity of St Andrews[email protected]Animal regionality in the Greek world; human-animal interactionsRegionalism; animal histories.
Nelson FerreiraUniversity of Coimbra[email protected]Ancient fable; ancient agriculture Sumerian literature; Latin literature; Greek literature; ancient cultures; semiotics.
Kresimir VukovicCharles University, Prague[email protected]The Living Streams: Conceptions of Rivers in The Ancient Mediterraneanhybridity, wolves, rivers, snakes
Rebecca FlemmingUniversity of Exeter[email protected]Animals and the environment in ancient medicine and science (including animal nativities in astrology)ancient medicine, ancient science, astrology
Diana RodriguezUniversity of Edinburgh[email protected]The Snake in the Ancient Greek Worldsnake, Greece, pottery, Greek art
Tim MollerWolfson College, Oxford[email protected]DPhil research: Hunting Elephants – the archaeological pursuit of Nubiaelephants, Egypt, Ptolemies, Sudan, Meroe
Erica RowanRoyal Holloway[email protected]Negotiating the Modernity Crisis: Globalization, economic gain and the loss of traditional and sustainable food practices in Turkey (AHRC AH/V000454/1)Roman, food, diet, food culture, Lydian, Italy, Turkey, economies of production, biofuels
Hendrik MüllerHochschule Fresenius[email protected]Ancient miscellany, esp. Aeliananimal ethics, emotions
Suzanna MillarUniversity of Edinburgh[email protected]Nonhuman animals in the Hebrew Bible (focussing on intersectionality in the books of Samuel)Hebrew Bible, Old Testament, ancient Near East, intersectionality
Ryan DensonTrent University/ University of Exeter[email protected]Sea monsters in the Greco-Roman imagination; hippocamps in ancient art and thought; the Constantinian uses of the phoenixancient mythical animals; animals in relation to divinities; monstrous animals; marine animals; animal folklore
Emma AstonUniversity of Reading[email protected]Regional identity in ancient Thessaly; Thessalian landscapes, agriculture, pastoralism, myths and cults. Animal-human hybridism and ancient attitudes to non-human identities.Thessaly; horses; landscapes; pastoralism; myths; cults
Luise Marion FrenkelUniversidade de São Paulo[email protected]Late antique religious controversiesEntextualisation, migration, individualization, asceticism, performance