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We work on the topography, archaeology, architecture and cultures of cities such as Sparta, Athens and other Greek city states, Rome, Constantinople, the cities of ancient Egypt, the towns of Britannia and the urban centres of North Africa. We are also interested in the interplay between urban centres and their rural hinterland, whether in Egypt, Greece, Italy or Britain.

Researchers

• Andrew Bayliss is an expert on ancient Sparta and is interested in the rural hinterland of Greek poleis.
• Henriette van der Blom works on the political culture of urban Rome and its spatial setting.
• Leslie Brubaker researches the power of processions through urban centres.
• Hannah Cornwell is a specialist on the topography and space of the City of Rome in the interplay with politics, diplomacy and discourses of power.
• Maeve McHugh focuses on the rural contexts of ancient Greece and is particularly interested in the interplay between urban centres and their rural hinterland.
• Will Mack works on guest-friendship and citizenship across the Greek city states.
• Leire Olabarria excavates the Middle Egyptian site of Dayr el-Barsha to better understand the role of the cemetery within its urban setting.
• Dan Reynolds is working on peasant communities in Byzantine-period provincial contexts, especially in the Levant and Southern Italy.
• Gareth Sears specialises in the archaeology, city life and religious change in Roman cities, especially in North Africa of the late antiquity.
• Diana Spencer is an expert of the ways in which the Romans conceptualised and experienced the urban space.
• Ken Wardle’s research focuses on the Prehistoric Greek cities and settlements of Mycenae, Knossos, Assiros and Servia and Thermon.
• Honorary Professor Larmour has worked on Rome as a site of memory with Diana Spencer and they are working on a study of Ovidian topography.

Major publications

• Bayliss, A 2020, . Oxford University Press.
• Bayliss, A 2017, . in LF Bantim (ed.), Esparta: Politica e sociedade. Prismas.
• Bayliss, A 2017, . in E Moloney & MS Williams (eds), Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World. Routledge.
• van der Blom, H, Gray, C & Steel, C (eds) 2018, . Cambridge University Press.
• van der Blom, H 2016, . Cambridge University Press.
• Brubaker, L & Wickham, C 2019, . Empires and communities. Pohl, W. & Kramer, R. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Cornwell, H 2020, . in S Merten & A Haug (eds), Practices in Ancient Public Spaces. vol. Studies in Classical Archaeology, Brepols Publishers, pp. 81-94.
• McHugh, M. 2017. The Ancient Greek Farmstead. Oxbow.
• Mack, W 2022, '', Past & Present.
• Mack, W 2018, '', Annual of the British School at Athens, vol. 113, pp. 365-398
• Mack, W 2015, . Oxford University Press.
• Mack, W 2015, '', The Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 135, pp. 51-77.
• Reynolds, D 2017, '', Dumbarton Oaks Papers, vol. 71, pp. 1-64.
• Reynolds, D 2015, . in RG Hoyland (ed.), The late antique world of early Islam: Muslims among Christians and Jews in the East Mediterranean. Darwin Press, pp. 339.
• Sears, G 2016, in N Roy, J Nikolaus & N Mugnai (eds), De Africa Romaque: Merging cultures across North Africa. Society for Libyan Studies, Oxford.
• Spencer, D 2015, . The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome. Östenberg, I., Malmberg, S. & Bjørnebye, J. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 99-110 12 p.
• Spencer, D 2018, . in A Claridge & C Holleran (eds), A Companion to the City of Rome. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, vol. 101, Wiley-Blackwell.
• Wardle, K & Wardle, D 2019, . in E Borgna, I Caloi, FM Carinci & R Laffineur (eds), MNHMH / MNEME. Past and Memory in the Aegean Bronze Age: Proceedings of the 17th International Aegean Conference, University of Udine, Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Department of Humanities, 17-21 April 2018. vol. 43, Aegaeum, vol. 43, Peeters Publishers and Booksellers, Leuven, Leuven, pp. 153-164
• Wardle, K 2015, in A-L Schallin & I Tournavitou (eds), Mycenaeans up to date: The archaeology of the north-eastern Peloponnese - current concepts and new directions. vol. 56, Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 4, vol. 56, Stockholm, pp. 577-596.

Projects

• (co-led by Henriette van der Blom, funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research)
• (Maeve McHugh)
• Crossroads of Empires. The Longobard Church of sant'Ambrogio alla Rienna, Montecorvijno Rovella (Italy) (led by Daniel Reynolds, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation).