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I hold an MA in Ancient History and BA in Ancient History and Cultural Criticism. 

I've assisted at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff, in the identification and cataloguing of pottery sherds (with the occasional glass shard, and lots of dust, slag and other detritus) excavated from Cardiff Castle and South Wales. This provided chance to expand my contact with the past into a more practical/material dimension. I've also helped out at St Fagans and National Museum Wales, from cleaning out the Iron Age roundhouses to helping children with Roman-myth arts and crafts.

MA Ancient History

A research preparation (taught) Masters, for which I was awarded a distinction.

• 'Dissertation on Roman nudity.
• The Romanisation of Italy: the functioning of leagues, sancturies etc. among Umbrian and Etruscan societies.
• Domestic spaces in Classical Antiquity
• Latin

BA (hons.) Ancient History and Cultural Criticism

Joint honours course, both largely dealing culture from various theoretical and critical viewpoints.

• ‘The Representation of Culture Through Sex in Herodotus’ (10,000 word dissertation)
• ‘Roman Identity in the West of Late Antiquity, c.400-530 A.D.’ (5,000 word independent research project)
• ‘The effectiveness of Carthaginian elephants in the Punic Wars’
• ‘The Role of Outsiders in Roman Originary Myths’
• ‘How effective is Haldeman’s The Forever War as an analogy of the Vietnam conflict?’
• ‘ Why is the ‘natural woman’ the most difficult stereotype to achieve?’
• ‘Does popular culture matter?’
• ‘The significance of Constantinople to the Byzantine Empire in the seventh century’
• ‘The military and social significance of cavalry in Classical Greece’

Academic Awards

• Prize for best Joint Honours final year student in School of Ancient History
• Cardiff University Scholarship for academic performance
• Elizabeth Thomas Prize for best first year performance in School of Ancient History