Constantine's Dream Project Staff
Principal Investigator: Kate Cooper, Professor of Ancient History. Professor 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.
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.