University of Oxford

Faculty Member, Archaeology

Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire

All Souls College

About

My current research interests include the economy of the Roman empire; ancient technology; ancient water supply and usage; Roman architecture; Roman North Africa, and field survey. I am particularly interested in the ancient use of water-power, machines and mining techniques, and the relationship between technological progress and economic growth in the Roman world.

With Professor Alan Bowman, I co-direct the Oxford Roman Economy Project (OXREP), which aims to collate and analyse both archaeological and documentary evidence to provide fresh quantitative and qualitative insights into the nature, scale and performance of the Roman economy.

http://oxrep.classics.ox.ac.uk/new/index.php

Much of the project research, and also related work by others, is or will be published in the monograph series Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy with Oxford University Press.

I teach various courses on Roman archaeology, including Roman Urban Systems, The Archaeology of the Roman Economy; and I am particularly interested in supervising graduate students working on the ancient economy, on settlement patterns, or on ancient technology.

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