Current Research Postgraduate
The following is a list of current research postgraduate students in the Department of Ancient History, together with their thesis topic or outline of the work they are engaged in.
Almond, Matthew
Second-Century Gnosticism
Aranzamendez, Rolando
The Early Christians As Resident Aliens. A Study of Christian Spirituality
in First Peter
Ayer, Kavita
Measuring Worth: Articulations of Poverty and Identity in the Late Roman
Republic
Bolle, Helena
Images of the body in the Jewish texts
Bridge, Edward John
Salvation Slaves
Brown, Benjamin
Homer, Funeral Contests and the Early Greek Polis
Burns, Ross Austin
Urban Lansccapes in Cities of the Roman East
Chong, Tae Yong
Early Christian Attitudes to Wealth
Cowie, Paul
Pax Aegyptiaca?: reassessing the new Kingdom Egyptian Empire in the Levant
Crickitt, Peter Graham
Figurarive heads and coverings in 1 Corinthians II:2-16, Greco-Roman rhetoric
and Hebrew Midroshic influences on Paul
Dalrymple, Jon
In sickness and in health: a study of published papyri documenting "therapeia"
in Graeco-Roman Egypt from the third century BC to the sixth century AD
Deane, John
Effects of the Hannibalic Wars on the Development of the Roman Monetary
System
Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla
Characterization in the Late Egyptian Stories: A comparison of foreign
and Egyptian characters fromliterary and linguistic perspectives
Dixon, Christine
Spirituality of Augustine of Hippo and Jonathan Edwards
Donker, Gerald
A Reconstruction of the 'Apostolos' of Athanasius of Alexandria
Donnelly, Richard
A study of the Retention of Religious Commitments of University Graduates,
with particular reference to IVF/AFES
Egan, Paul Francis
The Healing Ministry at St Andrew's Cathedral in the Context of the Charismatic
Renewal Movement in the Anglican Diocese of Sydney 1950-2000
Evans, Robert
Evangelism and Revivals in Australia and New Zealand in the late Nineteenth
Century
Fukagawa, Shingo
Investigation into dynamics of ancient Egyptian pharmacology: A statistical
analysis of Papyrus Ebers and cross-cultural medical thinking.
Gibson, James
The Development of the 'sensus divinitatis' and the Propagation of the
Christian Gospel
Gillen, Todd
The year 5 inscription of Rameses III at Medinet Habu
Grimes, Bruce
Post-Kleisthenic Attika: Maintaining the local power base
Guerry, Eve
The ancient Egyptian concept of 'boundary transgression'
Hampson, Michelle
Men at Work - A comparative study of scenes of craft and industry in private
tombs of the old Kingdom
Hardtke, Frederick
The society and culture of the western desert communities in Pharaonic
Egypt
Hebblewhite, Mark
The influence and operation if imperial adviser in the 4th century AD
Heslehurst, Raymond
From Clapham to Bloomsbury: The decline of an evangelical dynasty
Horne, Lauren
Examination of the effects of Roman republican coinage on the development
of the literary tradition
Howse, Paul
The cult of the dead in late republican and early imperial Rome
Jones, Jana
The textile vocabulary of the ancient Egyptian funerary texts: A Lexicographic,
Iconographic and Archaeological analysis
Keenan-Jones, Duncan
A historical hydraulic and archaeometrical study of the Aqua Augusta
Kepreotes, James
A diachronic Study of Greek Paideia: Plato, Photios and Nicodemos the Athnite
Knoblauch, Christian
The Egyptian cemeteries in Lower Nubia during the first half of the Second
Millennium BC
Kriening, Karlheinz
Revolts from the Athenian Empire in the 5th Century BC
La Loggia, Angela
Mud Brick Construction in Ancient Egypt - Architectural and Engineering
Analysis
Leiper, Kay
Problem-solving in Fifth Century Athens
Loftus, Susan
Auhority and religion in post-Roman barbarian kingdoms
Lowe, Bruce
St Paul's letter to the Romans: A Rhetorical Historical and Theological
study
Maric, Lazar
Literary propaganda in ancient Rome, communication and formation of attitudes
Matthew, Christopher
A storm of spears: a reappraisal of Ancient Hoplite warfare
McCorquodale, Kim
Representations of the family in old kingdom Egypt
Miles, Beverley
Continuity and Change in Old Kingdom Art
Moore, Peter
The Comparison of an Aspect of the Preaching of John Chrysostom and John
Calvin
Morris, Sally
The changing iconography and significance of the fertility goddess and
warrior god in Greece and the Aegean from Mycenaean to Classical times
Paproth, Darrell
Evangelical Christianity: the Melbourne experience 1875-1914
Peacock, John
First-Century Judaism and Christian Origin
Petrakis, Vicki
Women as leaders in the early Christian Church
Petrou, Irene
Holiness in the Christian tradition: a study of thought and experience
Power, Ronika
From the cradle to the grave: child and infant burials in the Egyptian archaeological
record
Radford, Fiona
The Chase and the Sexual Pursuit of Women in Roman History
Refaei, Ezzat
Local and regional diversity in pre-dynastic Egypt: a comparative analyses
of Upper Egyptian cemeteries
Renton, Stephen
Propaganda in Ancient Egypt
Rhydderch, Marian
Priestesses of Apollo - 5th Century end BC to 3rd Century CE
Riddell, Caroline
Individuality and Generalisation in the Representation of the Human Figure
in Old Kingdom
Roberts, Brian
Ministry Strategies: Bush Church Aid 1940-1992
Roe, Paul
Telling the story of Australia's Christian heritage through the medium of
a museum
Rowan, Clare
Religion of the Severan emperors
Roy, Jane
The nature of trade between Egypt and Nubia to the end of the old kingdom
Scott, Timothy
The Berlin Republic and approaches to ethnicity in the antique west
Sheldon, John
An edition of the Mainchaean prayer and confessional book
Sinclair, Neil
The Hare Nome from the 4th through to the 12th dynasty
Slack-Smith, Jennifer
Influence of women in Roman society
Smith, Margaret
Friends, Athenians, countrymen - a study of social interrelationship in
Classical Athens
Smith, Murray
Early Christian Eschatology: Unity and Diversity in the eschotology of
the New Testament and Apostolic Fathers
Smythe, Jane
TBA
Stephens, Mark
Continuity & Discontinuity in early Christian Eschatology-an analysis
of Creation/New Creation & the Apocalypse
Stephens, Michael
Categorisation of the secular ships and boats of ancient Egypt: Old to the
end of the Middle Kingdom
Swinton, Joyce
The Dating of Old Kingdom Tombs
Szumyn, Kristen
Greek cosmogonical and cosmological theories in the light of new papyrological
evidence
Tansey, Patrick Anthony
A Prosopographical Corpus of Marriage in the Roman Elite in the Second
and First Centuries BC
Tarawney, Hanadah
Studies in the Lexicon of the Amarna Letters
Thompson, Elizabeth
Themes and style in wall scenes in tombs of the provincial cemetery of El-Hawawish
in the old kingdom in Egypt
Tillitzki, Jeff
AD248-253 Rome in Crisis? Evaluating the reign of Trajar Decius and his
Imperial College
Turner, Susan
Horses in Egyptian art
Westcott, Ellen
The inscriptions and Visual Imagery of the Cemetery of Isola Sacra
Willoughby-Winlaw, Sophie
The art and architecture of 5th dynasty private tombs at Giza
Wilson, Arwen
Gaius Julius Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium
Windon, Bradley
Making Christians in Tertullian
Woods, Alexandra
A study of the artistic representations in tombs of the officials in the
6th dynasty in the Teh cemetery at Saqqara
Wright, Nicholas Luke
Gods at the Crossroads Religious Assimilation and Rejection in the Hellenistic
Levant
Young, Genevieve
Competing Monotheisms in the Byzantine and Western Medieval Periods, 6th-15th
Centuries
Yuen-Collingridge, Rachel
Remembering the philosopher: status, image and terminology
Last updated October 2007