Department of Ancient History

Professor Alanna Nobbs, Head of Department
BA Syd., PhD Syd.
Research Interest: Historical background of Early Christianity; Greek papyri documenting the Christianisation of Egypt; Late antique and early Byzantine history and historiography
Telephone: (02) 9850 8844
Office: W6A 317
Email: anobbs@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Lea Beness
BA (Hons) New England, PhD New England
Research Interest: Late Roman Republic; Roman biographical dictionary
Telephone: (02) 9850 9375
Office: W6A 523
Email: lbeness@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Heike Behlmer
MA Göttingen, PhD Göttingen
Research Interest: Coptic Literature; Egyptian Monasticism; Gender Studies
Telephone: (02) 9850 6800
Office: W6A 541
Email: hbehlmer@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Malcolm Choat
BA (Hons) Qld, PhD
Research interest: Coptic, Monasticism, Papyrology
Telephone: (02) 9850 7561
Office: W6A 504
Email: mchoat@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Peter Edwell
B.Com Wollongong, BA (Hons), PhD
Research Interest: Roman Eastern Provinces in Late Antiquity
Telephone: (02) 9850 8845
Office: W6A516
Email: pedwell@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Trevor Evans
BA (Hons) (UNE), PhD Usyd
Research Interest: Greek, Latin, Papyrology, Language of the Septuagint
Telephone: (02) 9850 8780
Office: W6A503
Email: trevor.evans@humn.mq.edu.au

Dr Chris Forbes
BA (Hons), PhD
Research Interest: New Testament studies; Hellenistic history and history of ideas; the intersection of early Christianity and Graeco-Roman culture
Telephone: (02) 9850 8821
Office: W6A 536
Email: cforbes@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Andrew Gillett
BA Qld, MA Tor., PhD Tor.
Research Interest: Later Roman Empire
Telephone: (02) 9850 9966
Office: W6A505
Email: agillett@hmn.mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Tom Hillard
BA Syd., PhD
Research Interest: The political history of the Roman Republic; Roman social history; the underwater investigation of Torone, northern Greece
Telephone: (02) 9850 8862
Office: W6A 515
Email: thillard@hmn.mq.edu.au

Professor Naguib Kanawati,
MA Alexandria, PhD, FAHA
Research Interest: Egyptian history, civilisation and language; excavating and recording tombs at Giza and Saqqara
Telephone: (02) 9850 8855
Office: W6A 535
Email: nkanawat@hmn.mq.edu.au
or naguib.kanawati@mq.edu.au

Dr Rosalinde Kearsley
BA (USyd.); MA (USyd.), PhD, Grad Dip (Humanities, UNE)
Research Interest: Historiography of the Julio-Claudian period; history of the Greek cities in Asia Minor; history and epigraphy of Roman Asia Minor; women in Graeco-Roman society; archaeology of the Greek Geometric period, including Euboean overseas expansion
Telephone: (02) 9850 7933
Office: W6A 526
Email: r.kearsley@humanities.mq.edu.au

Dr Peter Keegan
Macquarie University Research Fellow
Research Interest: Latin Epigraphy, Gender, Sexuality and Body History; Late Republican and Early Imperial Historiography and Historical Theory.
Telephone: (02) 9850 8819
Office: W6A 512
Email: peter.keegan@humn.mq.edu.au

Dr Christiana Köhler
DPhil Heidelberg
Research Interest: Egypt; archaeology; predynastic and early dynastic Egypt
Telephone: (02) 9850 8851
Office: W6A 525
Email: ckoehler@hmn.mq.edu.au

Professor Samuel Lieu
MA Camb., D Phil. Oxford, FRAS, FRHistS, FSA, FAHA
Research Interest: Roman imperial history and historiography; Manichaeism; Silk Road Studies
Telephone: (02) 9850 8882 or 7899 or 7512
Office: W6A 514
Email: slieu@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Stephen Llewelyn,
BA, BD Syd., PhD
Research Interest: New Testament Studies; Papyrology; Qumran and Second Temple Judaism. The Dead Sea Scrolls; Greek and Hebrew languages
Telephone: (02) 9850 8843
Office: W6A 539
Email: sllewely@hmn.mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Paul McKechnie
MA Cantab., D.Phil Oxon.
Research Interest: Classical and Hellenistic Greece; Roman History; Early Christianity
Telephone: (02) 9850 8782
Office: W6A500
Email: Paul.McKechnie@humn.mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Boyo Ockinga
MA Auck., DPhil Tübingen
Research Interest: Ancient Egyptian philology, history and religion; Egypt and Old Testament; Egyptian New Kingdom tombs
Telephone: (02) 9850 8852
Office: W6A 533
Email: bockinga@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Ken Parry
BA, PhD Manchester
Research Interest: Byzantine cultural and intellectual history; Eastern Christianity; Patristics; Early Christianity in Asia; Silk Road Studies
Telephone: (02) 9850 7937
Office: W6A 518
Email: Ken.Parry@humn.mq.edu.au

Dr David Phillips
BA Monash, TSTC Monash Teachers' College, PhD
Research Interest: Archaic and Classical Greek political and social history; Athenian politics 430s-390s BC; Attic epigraphy; the 5th century Athenian empire; revolts in the Athenian empire; Athenian ostracism; the cults of Attika
Telephone: (02) 9850 8874
Office: W6A 524
Email: david.phillips@hmn.mq.edu.au

Dr Ian Plant
MA, PhD Canterbury
Research Interest: Greek historiography, in particular the rhetoric of Thucydides; Greek history of the 5th and 4th centuries BC; women writers of Greece and Rome; the teaching of Greek and Latin
Telephone: (02) 9850 8880
Office: W6A 538
Email: ian.plant@mq.edu.au

Dr Ken Sheedy
MA, PhD Syd.
Director, Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (ACANS)
Telephone: (02) 9850 8807
Office: W6A 517
Email: Ken.Sheedy@humn.mq.edu.au

Dr Alexander Weiss
MA Bonn, PhD Bonn
Feodor Lynen Research Fellow of
the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Telephone: (02) 9850 8889
Office: W6A338
Email: Alexander.Weiss@humn.mq.edu.au