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Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History 2024
Committee
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Clare Parry
Chair
Clare is going into her third year of PhD research and is this years committee chair. Clare's thesis is titled: 'Displaying Empire: Imperial Approaches to Power and Identity in Persia and the Near East'. Her research interests include:
- Ancient Persia, Egypt and the Near East
- Iconography and Material Culture
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Sean Strong
Secretary
Sean is currently writing up his thesis to be submitted early in 2024. His thesis is titled: 'General and Rulers in Theophylact Simocatta's History: Ideals and Practices of Roman and Sassanian Leadership in an Age of Transition'. HIs research interests include:
- Late Antiquity and Byzantium
- Arsacid and Sasanian Iran
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Kieran Blewitt
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Kieran will be going into his second year of the PhD and his thesis title is: 'Soft Power and Civic Identity in Magna Graecia: Re-Evaluating the Revolts of the Second Punic War'. His research interests include:
- International Relations in Roman Italy
- Roman Historiography and Material Culture of Magna Graecia
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Ludovico Runco
Ludovico is going into his second year of the Phd and is also the designer of this year's AMPAH logo. His thesis is titled: 'The ethnogenesis of the Brettians: a product of the Ver Sacrum?' His research interests include:
- Ethnicity and Mobility in Antiquity
- Pre-Roman Italy