Staff
The Board
The Board of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Studies is responsible for postgraduate coursework admissions and can help you choose subjects to constitute a major in three main areas: Ancient and Medieval Studies; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.
Teaching and Research Staff
Jaynie
Anderson (Culture and Communication)
Art history in the early modern period from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth
century, with a special interest in the Renaissance in Venice. The history
of conservation, patronage, and twentieth-century Australian art.
jaynie@unimelb.edu.au
Megan
Cassidy-Welch (Historical Studies)
Central-late Middle Ages, especially aspects of medieval cultural
history, medieval practices of space, power and punishment; memory and
the aftermath of war.
mecass@unimelb.edu.au
Kim
On Chong-Gossard (Historical Studies)
Greek tragedy, specifically the gendered use of language in Euripides. Other
interests include gender theory, Senecan drama, Roman prosopography and Latin
pedagogy.
koc@unimelb.edu.au
Rhiannon
Evans (Historical Studies)
Ancient Roman studies, in particular imperial culture, ethnic identity
and gender, satire and epigram.
rmevans@unimelb.edu.au
John
Griffiths (Music)
European music prior to 1700 - specialist expertise in music of 14th-century
Italy, 16th-century Spain and renaissance solo instrumental music.
jagrif@unimelb.edu.au
Dianne
Hall (Historical Studies)
Medieval and early modern Irish history; history of medieval and early
modern gender, monasticism, war and violence.
dhall@unimelb.edu.au
Felicity
Harley-McGowan (Culture and Communication)
Early Christian, Medieval art and early Byzantine art. Special interests:
the evolution of Christian iconography through to the early Renaissance
(particularly for the Crucifixion); the art of Medieval Rome; historiography.
fharley@unimelb.edu.au
Louise
Hitchcock (Historical Studies)
Aegean Bronze Age archaeology and architecture (Minoan Crete, Mycenaean
Greece and the Cyclades). Archaeological theory: especially contextual
and spatial analysis, structuration and agency, complex society, gender,
critical theory, cultural diversity, landscape, ethnicity, the politics
of the past, ethics and the transmission of culture. Cypriot archaeology.
Israelite and Philistine architecture.
lahi@unimelb.edu.au
Stephen
Kolsky (Language and Linguistics)
sdkolsky@unimelb.edu.au
Catherine
Kovesi (Historical Studies)
Research interest in luxury and consumption in Renaissance Italy; Florentine
family and political life; the Tuscan contado.
c.kovesi@unimelb.edu.au
Parshia
Lee-Stecum (Historical Studies)
Roman poetry of the Augustan period (especially Roman erotic elegy); magic in
the Greco-Roman world; the circulation of ideology in Roman culture; Roman myth
and self-identity.
ppls@unimelb.edu.au
Miles Lewis
(Architecture, Building and Planning)
Mediterranean and European architecture and building from the pre-classical
to the eighteenth century.
milesbl@unimelb.edu.au
Chris
Mackie (Historical Studies)
Greek and Roman epic poetry (especially Homer and Vergil). Greek and Roman mythology;
Greek heroes and contemporary superheroes; the reception of Classical antiquity
in modern times (with particular reference to the attitude towards the Classics
before, during and after the Great War); the Dardanelles region in antiquity
as a historical and archaeological background to the Gallipoli campaign of 1915.
cjmackie@unimelb.edu.au
Dolly
MacKinnon (Historical Studies and Faculty of Music)
Early modern social and cultural history of the British Isles; landscapes; soundscapes; material culture; early modern and modern charity; graffiti; gender and madness; history of psychiatry; family businesses.
a.mackinnon@unimelb.edu.au
Elizabeth
Malcolm (Historical Studies)
Late medieval and early modern Ireland: war, crime and violence; women;
medicine and disease; drink.
e.malcolm@unimelb.edu.au
Margaret
Manion (Historical Studies)
m.manion@unimelb.edu.au
Honorary professorial fellow. Medieval and Renaissance Art History with special reference to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Studies.
Chris
Marshall (Culture and Communication)
Renaissance, Baroque and contemporary art; art curatorship, collecting and the
art market; and the history and philosophy of museums.
crmars@unimelb.edu.au
David
Marshall (Culture and Communication)
Sixteenth to eighteenth-century Italian art and architecture; Baroque
art; Rococo and Barocchetto art; illusionistic painting, architectural
and view painting (Codazzi, Canaletto, Panini); landscape painting;
architectural history; seventeenth and eighteenth-century villa and
garden architecture; contemporary gardens; Baroque art and antiquarianism;
collections and display; connoisseurship; archival research.
david.marshall@unimelb.edu.au
Bernard Muir (Culture and Communication)
Ancient and early medieval literature and culture; the digital analysis
and presentation of manuscript materials; scholarly digital facsimile
editions; computers and the Humanities.
bjem@unimelb.edu.au
Catrin
Norrby (Language and Linguistics)
Sociolinguistics and discourse analysis.
catrinn@unimelb.edu.au
Peter
Otto (Culture and Communication)
peterjo@unimelb.edu.au
Ron Ridley
(Historical Studies)
History of the preclassical and classical world (especially Egypt and Rome); history of archaeology (especially Egypt and Rome); history of historical writing.
r.ridley@unimelb.edu.au
Antonio
Sagona (Historical Studies)
The archaeology of the ancient Near East, especially Anatolia and Caucasus.
a.sagona@unimelb.edu.au
Brian
Scarlett (Philosophy)
brianfs@unimelb.edu.au
Roger
Scott (Historical Studies)
Greek and Roman historians and the history and society
of the early Byzantine empire and his main research is on Byzantine chronicles.
r.scott@unimelb.edu.au
Frank
Sear (Historical Studies)
Roman architecture, especially Roman theatres, a study of their design and development,
using material, epigraphic and literary evidence. Roman wall and vault mosaics,
with special reference to the glass used in the manufacture of mosaic tesserae.
Pompeian houses, especially their architecture and their water systems. Roman
concrete structures, including analysis of the materials used to make Roman concrete.
fsear@unimelb.edu.au
Peter
Sherlock (Historical Studies and United Faculty of Theology)
Peter is the Dean of the United Faculty of Theology and an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical Studies. His research interests and areas of supervision include early modern British history; death, memory and commemoration; national and imperial identity; gender and religion; mission history.
melbournehistorian@gmail.com
Stephanie
Trigg (Culture and Communication)
Chaucer; fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English literature; medievalism.
sjtrigg@unimelb.edu.au
Gocha
Tsetskhladze (Historical Studies)
Greek archaeology and history of the Archaic and Classical periods;
Greek colonisation; the archaeology of the Black Sea, Anatolia and
Europe in the first millennium BC.
g.tsetskhladze@unimelb.edu.au
Clara
Tuite (Culture and Communication)
clarat@unimelb.edu.au
Frederik Vervaet (Historical Studies)
fvervaet@unimelb.edu.au
Roman history; political and institutional history of the Republic and the Early Empire; Roman public law; prosopography of the Senate.
Nick
Vlahogiannis (Historical Studies)
The Graeco-Roman city in antiquity.
n.vlahogiannis@unimelb.edu.au
Charles
Zika (Historical Studies)
Late medieval and early modern Europe, especially German territories;
visual images and propaganda; religion, ritual and gender; witchcraft,
magic and the dead; place and identity.
c.zika@unimelb.edu.au