People
Academic Staff
The Centre's Director is Dr. Kate Cooper Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History. Dr Cooper's research interest is in the cultural, social, and religious history of late Roman society, with a special focus on the Roman family and the Christianizatin of Roman elites. She is the author, most recently, of The Fall of the Roman Household (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Closely Watched Households: Visibility, exposure, and private power in the Roman domus, Past and Present 197 (Nov. 2007), 3-33, and in 2009-12 directs the Constantine's Dream project.
Dr Roberta Mazza holds a three-year Lectureship in Ancient History and Early Christianity jointly in the Classics and Ancient History and Religions and Theology departments. Dr Mazza is a well known papyrologist who has until recently been teaching at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her L'Archivio degli Apioni. Terra, lavoro e proprietà senatoria nell' Egitto tardoantico (Bari: Edipuglia, 2001) has been widely praised as opening a new vista on the problem of late Roman estates. Dr Mazza received her PhD from the University of Bologna in 1997, and has held fellowships at the University of Salzburg and King's College London.
Constantine's Dream Project Staff
Principal Investigator: Dr Kate Cooper
Research Associate: Dr Dirk Rohmann, who holds the PhD in Ancient History from the University of Munich and is the author of Gewalt und politischer Wandel im 1. Jh. n. Chr., (München: Utz, 2006). From 2005-09 he has held a Feodor Lynen Stipendium from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, first at the University of Colorado at Boulder and more recently at the University of Bonn. With Dr Cooper, he will serve as co-editor for the project volume Christianity and the Problem of Violence to the Year 1000.
Early Career Fellow: Dr Andrew Marsham, who received his DPhil in Islamic History from the University of Oxford in 2004 and now teaches the same subject at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught medieval history at the University of Sheffield and has held research fellowships at the Cambridge and the University of Manchester, during which he completed Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009) his current research project is on rebellion and state formation in early Islam. He joins the project as consultant for comparative work on formative Christianity and Islam.
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow (2009-11): Dr Jamie Wood, who received his PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the University of Manchester in 2007. Since 2007 he has held a post at the University of Sheffield, in its Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences. He joins the project as the holder of a grant from the Leverhulme Trust for an affiliated study, entitled Conversion, Conflict and Community: Cultivating Religious Identities in Late Ancient Spain, 300-700.
Project Studentship Holder: James Corke-Webster, who comes to Manchester from Cambridge University, where he achieved a distinction on the MPhil in Ancient History, with a dissertation on Religion Transformed: Re-Reading Apuleius on the Mystery Cults. His undergraduate work was at Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a first class honours degree in Theology. His topic for the PhD is:Family Relationships, Violence, and Religious Change in Early Christianity and Islam: a comparative study.
Affiliated Staff
Paul Fouracre
Professor Fouracre is presently Professor of Medieval History at the University of Manchester and co-ordinating editor of the journal 'Early Medieval Europe'. For more information on the journal 'Early Medieval Europe', click here. Prof. Fouracre's research interests include the continent in the early middle ages and Francia in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods.
Email: Paul.J.Fouracre@manchester.ac.uk
Dr Anne Kurdock is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Late Antiquity. Research associate for the Centre's Virtual Cities Project (2005). She completed her PhD entitled "The Anician Women: Patronage and Dynastic Strategy in a Late Roman Domus, 350-600 CE" in 2003 at the University of Manchester.
Dr Carole Hill is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Late Antiquity. She and Dr Cooper are currently editing, The Early Saints of Rome, a volume of translated texts from the gesta martyrum.
Dr Clare Pilsworth is a Research Fellow in Classics and Ancient History and the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Research at the University of Manchester. Form 2000-02 she held a Leverhulme Special Fellow in the Centre for Late Antiquity, supporting her research in collaboration with the Roman Martyrs Project. She seved as Research Associate for the Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage Project 1999-2000 and as Research Associate for the Roman Martyrs Project 1998-99.
Current Postgraduates
Riccardo Bof
James Corke-Webster (see above)
Jonathan Tallon