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Classical & Archaeological Studies MA, MPhil, PhD
This is a research programme within the Classical & Archaeological Studies subject area.
Key facts
- Subject area: Classical & Archaeological Studies
- Location: Canterbury
- School: School of European Culture and Language
- Duration: MA one year full-time or two years part-time, MPhil two years full-time or three years part-time, PhD three years full-time or five years part-time.
- Start: At any time but preferably in September.
- Fees: More info
- Entry requirements: A first or second class honours degree in Classics, Latin, Greek, Ancient History, Archaeology (or equivalent). Please also check our general entry requirements (including English language requirements).
Outline
Each research student is assigned two internal supervisors who arrange the programme of study and research to suit individual interests.
Staff have received research finance from sources including the British Academy, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Leverhulme Trust, English Heritage, European Union funds and University sources. In the last couple of years, we have been awarded INSTAP funding totalling $30,000 and grants from the Mediterranean Archaeology Trust, UCLA and the Cotsen Corporation (€300,000).
Programme structure
For further information see the School site.
Funding
Every school at Kent offers one or two University postgraduate research scholarships, each available for three years, providing fees at the home/EU rate and a stipend up to £13,590 per annum (2011/12 rate).
Many schools offer scholarships in the form of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) whereby postgraduate research students receive financial support in return for teaching. The value of awards may vary, but often cover tuition fees at the home/EU rate and a substantial maintenance grant.
All postgraduate research students are eligible to apply for GTAs. See Graduate Teaching Assistantships.
Every year, our School offers a number of student bursaries to cover the fees of postgraduate students, mainly on research programmes.
The School also provides funds to research students for attending conferences, as well as for inter-library loans and minor expenses related to research.
For further details of postgraduate funding, see Postgraduate funding.
View further information about scholarships available in the School of European Culture and Languages.
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Resources and facilities
The School has extensive literary holdings and many other facilities to support active research, and the Templeman Library also has excellent holdings in all our areas of research interest. This includes an extensive range of English and foreign periodicals, as well as specialist collections (the library of A S L Farquharson, specialising in the age of Marcus Aurelius, and generous donations from the libraries of Victor Ehrenburg in ancient social history, Anthony Snodgrass and Richard Reece in archaeology). We have access to Canterbury Cathedral Library, and to archaeological libraries and collections in Canterbury and other centres in Kent, and first-rate connections with London and continental Europe.
Kent is now the home of the Renfrew archive and collection, a major resource for research on the history of archaeology, archaeological theory, prehistoric Orkney and the Aegean Bronze Age.
The Section has its own technician (Lloyd Bosworth), who is widely experienced and skilled in landscape archaeology and geophysical surveying; he supports staff research and project work.
The University of Kent's location is highly convenient for students who need to visit not only the British Library and other specialist libraries in London, but also the major libraries and research centres within Europe.
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Research areas
Archaeology
Currently particular areas of interest are:
- the history of archaeology; artefact studies; later prehistoric ceramics
- the archaeology of the Roman army and frontier, archaeology and gender; classical medicine; Minoan iconography, Mycenaean administration, Mycenaean epigraphy, Ritual Theory and general Bronze Age Aegean; archaeoastronomy; catasterism myths; later prehistory in temperate Europe, including the British Isles
- the archaeology of the Roman era in Britain and the Western Provinces; Roman artefacts and art; samian ware; the late post-Roman transition in the West; the archaeology of early medieval Britain and northern Europe
- landscape and settlement studies
- the archaeology of upland environments; the archaeology of the Transmanche area; investigating the Mediterranean city in late Antiquity (AD 300-650); late antique cities.
Staff
Dr Patty Baker, Dr Efrosyni Boutsikas, Dr Evangelos Kyriakidis, Dr Luke Lavan, Dr Ellen Swift, Dr Anthony Ward, Dr Steven Willis, Lloyd Bosworth (technician).
Classical Studies, Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Key research areas are: ancient narrative literature, especially the novel; classical literature; Greek palaeography; Greek satire; Greek and Roman epic; Lucian; hagiography; Byzantium; historiography; and gender studies.
Staff
Dr Anne Alwis, Dr Adam Bartley.
Ancient History
Achaemenid Persia; archaic, classical and Hellenistic Greece; late period, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt; the history of the Roman Republic; the life course; roads and the landscape of the Roman Empire; tourism and the classical tradition; the social, economic and financial aspects of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire; the history of the Roman army; Greek and Egyptian papyrology; epigraphy; palaeography; and neo-Latin.
Staff
Dr Arthur Keaveney, Dr Csaba La'da, David Nightingale, Professor Ray Laurence.
Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies (CLLS)
Founded in 2007, the Centre aims to promote interdisciplinary collaboration in linguistic research and teaching. Membership includes not just linguists within SECL but also researchers in classics, philosophy, computing, psychology and anthropology, reflecting the many and varied routes by which individuals come to a love of language and the various disciplines and sub-disciplines of linguistics. Kent provides academic progression in linguistics from undergraduate to graduate levels (taught and research MA, MPhil and PhD) with CLLS offering supervision and support in areas such as syntax, semantics and pragmatics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and stylistics. We run lectures, symposiums and workshops with experts from Kent and far beyond and have recently held the third of a series of biennial international conferences devoted to Interfaces in Language, with published proceedings.
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|Staff research
Dr Anne Alwis: Lecturer in Classical Literature
Late Antiquity and Byzantium; hagiography; gender studies; Greek palaeography.
Dr Patty Baker: Lecturer in Archaeology
The archaeology of the Roman army and frontier; archaeology and gender; classical medicine.
Dr Adam Bartley: Lecturer in Classical Literature
Greek and Roman epic; Greek satire; historiography.
Dr Efrosyni Boutsikas: Lecturer in Archaeology
Archaeoastronomy; Greek ritual; religious timekeeping; catasterism myths.
Dr Arthur Keaveney: Reader in Ancient History
History of the Roman Republic; Achaemenid Persia; neo-Latin.
Dr Evangelos Kyriakidis: Senior Lecturer
Minoan iconography; Mycenaean administration; ritual theory; general Bronze Age Aegean.
Dr Csaba La'da: Senior Lecturer
Late period, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Egypt; archaic, classical and Hellenistic Greece; Greek and Egyptian papyrology, epigraphy and palaeography.
Professor Ray Laurence: Head of Department
Roman history, Roman archaeology, classics, classical tradition, cultural heritage.
Dr Luke Lavan: Lecturer in Archaeology
Late antique archaeology; the archaeology of late antique cities; visualisation of the ancient world.
David Nightingale: Senior Lecturer in Ancient History
Social, economic and financial aspects of the Roman Republic and Empire.
Dr Ellen Swift: Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
Artefact studies; Roman dress accessories; the late post-Roman transition in the West; Roman art.
Dr Anthony Ward: Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
Prehistoric Britain and Europe; forensic archaeology; upland landscapes; prehistoric and medieval Wales.
Dr Steven Willis: Lecturer in Archaeology
Britain and Europe in the first millennium BC, the western Roman provinces, later prehistoric pottery and artefacts; samian pottery; the archaeology of the Transmanche area; landscape studies.
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Contact details
Admissions enquiriesT: +44 (0)1227 827272
E: information@kent.ac.uk
Dr Csaba La'da
T: +44 (0)1227 827522
E: c.lada@kent.ac.uk
Dr Anne Alwis
T: +44 (0)1227 823452
E: a.p.alwis@kent.ac.uk
Cornwallis North West, University of Kent Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
International Pre-Master's (GDip) enquiriesCentre for English and World Languages
T: +44 (0)1227 824069
E: premasters@kent.ac.uk
W: www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/courses/GraduateDiplomas
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