Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies: University of Birmingham

The Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity is a stimulating and supportive research environment for a buoyant postgraduate community drawn from the UK and abroad. They have 25 years' experience of training postgraduates, and research facilities on campus are excellent. Their annual journals, symposia, and colloquia are of international standing.

The Institute comprises two research centres:

• Archaeology, Heritage and Environment
• Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies

Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies

Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies embraces the geographical and chronological range of study that extends from Mesopotamia and Egypt through the Greek and Roman worlds and onward to Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek areas. Particular strengths lie in Assyrian and Babylonian civilisations and languages, in the history of Mesopotamian religion and literature, in palaeography, in Egyptian language, history and religion; and generally in archaeology of the first millennium BC.

The Greek and Roman area deals with literature, history, civilisation, thought and culture, with particular strengths in the study of the prehistoric Aegean, Greek music, drama, religion and mythology, the historian Herodotus, epigram, the study of ancient slavery, landscape and urbanism, Roman poetry, historiography of the late republic and early empire, the second sophistic, and late antiquity. The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies is an acknowledged leader in research in its fields – literary, artistic, historical and cultural (see below).

Students draw on a multiplicity of perspectives and theoretical approaches including art history, social history, critical theory, gender studies, performance studies, and the study of the reception of antiquity in film and literature.

The point of contact for the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity is:
The Postgraduate Tutor
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5497
Fax: +44 (0)121 414 3595
Email: iaa-pg@bham.ac.uk

How to apply:

• Apply online
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