Classical and Archaeological Studies Staff

Full Time Staff


Anne Alwis - Lecturer

Love, Sex and Society; Virgil’s Aeneid; Greek Drama; Literature in the Age of Augustus; Beginners’ Greek.

Graham Anderson - Professor

Literary and cultural history of the Roman Empire.

Patty Baker - Lecturer

Classical medicine; gender studies and material culture.

Adam Bartley - Lecturer

The Greek and Latin epic; Greek and Latin technical writing; Greek and Latin satire, Greek and Latin personal poetry.

Lloyd Bosworth:

Archaeology Technician.

Efrosyni Boutsikas - Lecturer

Greek ritual; archaeoastronomy; catasterism myths.

Arthur Keaveney - Reader

Latin language; the Persian Empire; Greek and Roman ancient history.

Evangelos Kyriakidis - Senior Lecturer

The Bronze-Age Aegean; Minoan art and architecture; archaeological project; introduction to archaeology; archaeology and epistemology.

Csaba Lada - Senior Lecturer

Egyptian hieroglyphs and writing; Ancient Greek; Hellenistic history.

Luke Lavan - Lecturer

Late antique archaeology; the ancient and medieval city; archaeological fieldwork, methods and techniques.

David Nightingale - Senior Lecturer and Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Ancient Greek and Roman History.

Ellen Swift: (Head of Section) - Senior Lecturer

Artefact Studies; the Archaeology of Belief, Cult and Ritual; the Archaeology of Death; the Late and post-Roman era in the West.

Anthony Ward - Senior Lecturer

European Prehistoric and Proto-historic Archaeology.

Steve Willis - Lecturer

Later Prehistory and the Roman period in Britain and Europe; the Archaeology of Pottery; Landscape Studies.

Laura Withers:

Section Secretary

Part Time Staff


Colin Andrews:

Honorary Lecturer

Maria Centrone:

Part-time Teacher - Egyptian archaeology.

Christopher Chaffin:

Retired Head of Subject

Kirsty Corrigan:

Part-time Teacher - Classical Literature (Roman Empire); Women in the Classical World; Classical Mythology.

Louise Earnshaw Brown:

Part-time Teacher

John Hammond:

Part-time Teacher

Elizabeth Norton:

Part-time Teacher - Classical Mythology; ancient literature.

Stephen Penfold:

Part-time Teacher

Frances Williams:

Honorary Lecturer

Hon. Professor


Lord Colin Renfrew - Profile

Hon. Research Fellows


Helen Dawson:

Senior Archaeologist with the Museum of London; Part-time Teacher

Fiona Seeley:

Project Officer with the Museum of London

Jake Weekes:

Research Officer with Canterbury Archaeological Trust

Research Associates


Paul Bennett:

Paul, as Director of Canterbury Archaeological Trust, has worked closely with Classical and Archaeological Studies at Kent over many years. He received an Honorary Doctorate from the University in 2006.

Peter Clark:

Deputy Director of Canterbury Archaeological Trust and Honorary Lecturer

Prof. John Madden:

National University of Ireland, Galway. Prof Madden has undertaken a series of research and publication collaborations with Dr Arthur Keaveney