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Dr Penelope Goodman

Dr Penelope Goodman

Profile

I completed my first degree in Ancient History at the University of Bristol (1994-7), before moving to Christ Church, Oxford for my M.St. and D.Phil. (1997-2001). After finishing my post-graduate studies, I taught at the universities of Oxford, Warwick and Reading and Queen's University Belfast. I joined Classics at Leeds in September 2006.

Responsibilities

  • Director of Research and Innovation for LCS

Research interests

There are two main strands to my research. One is concerned with the relationship between the spatial organisation of Roman settlements and the needs and priorities of the communities which built them. This interest sprang from my D.Phil. thesis, which looked at the use of space on the edges of Roman cities, and is now available as a Routledge monograph entitled The Roman City and its Periphery: from Rome to Gaul. Since publishing this monograph I have continued to work on the organisation of built environments in the Roman world, including the spatial distribution of temples and workshops and the definition and significance of urban boundaries.

My other research area is the reception of the emperor Augustus from his death up to the present day. This relates in particular to the bimillennium of Augustus' death on 19 August 2014, which represented two thousand years of Augustus himself being gone, and other people using, appropriating and reinventing his image to serve their own needs and interests. I held a major international conference over the date of the bimillennium in Leeds, and published a volume of selected papers from it as Afterlives of Augustus: AD 14 - 2014 (Cambridge University Press). I am now working on a monograph examining the events and activities held to mark the bimillennia of his birth in 1938 and death in 2014, which between them represent the two largest-scale and most diverse forms of engagement with Augustus of the last century. Further details of my work on Augustus can be found on the Commemorating Augustus website.

 

Publications

  • Forthcoming: 'Retrospective Parentage: Augustus as a Father of Europe' in Caillan Davenport and Shushma Malik, eds. Representing Rome’s Emperors: Historical and Cultural Perspectives through Time. Oxford: Oxford University Press. c. 12000 words.
  • Forthcoming: With Christopher P Dickenson: 'Zoning the city' in Maarten Prak. Penelope J E Davies and Christina G Williamson, eds. The Cambridge Urban History of Europe, Volume I: The Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. c. 8000 words.
  • 2020: ‘In omnibus regionibus? The fourteen regions and the city of Rome’, in Papers of the British School at Rome 88: 1-32.
  • 2018: 'Defining the city: the boundaries of Rome', in C. Holleran and A. Claridge, eds., A Companion to the City of Rome (Oxford: Blackwell): 71-91.
  • 2018: 'Twelve Augusti' in The Journal of Roman Studies 108: 156-70.
  • 2018: Afterlives of Augustus: AD 14 - 2014 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
  • 2017: ‘Bridging the gap: teaching and studying Ancient History and Classical Civilisation from school to university’, in Journal of Classics Teaching 18: 48-53. (Available online)
  • 2016: With M. Lindner: ‘Schurke und Idealherrscher – Augustus und das Kaiserbild des Antikfilms’ in E. Baltrusch et al., ed. Der Erste. Augustus und der Beginn einer neuen Epoche (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft): 147-57.
  • 2016: 'Working together: clusters of artisans in the Roman city' in A. Wilson and M. Flohr, eds. Urban Craftsmen and Traders in the Roman World (Oxford: OUP): 301-333.
  • 2016: ‘The urban peripheries’ in A. Cooley, ed. A Companion to Roman Italy (Oxford: Blackwell): 308-329.
  • 2013: With S. Green, Animating Antiquity: Harryhausen and the Classical tradition (Open University). (Available online)
  • 2013: 'The production centres: settlement hierarchies and spatial distribution' in M. Fulford and E. Durham, eds. Seeing Red: new economic and social perspectives on terra sigillata (London: Institute of Classical Studies): 121-136.
  • 2013: 'Temple architecture and urban boundaries in Gaul and Britain: two worlds or one?', in T. Kaizer, A. Leone, E. Thomas and R. Witcher (eds.), Cities and Gods (Leiden: Stichting Babesch): 81-96.
  • 2012: '‘I am master of nothing’: Imperium: Augustus and the story of Augustus on screen' in New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 7: 13-24. (Available online)
  • 2011: 'Temples in late antique Gaul' in L. Lavan and M. Mulryan, eds. The Archaeology of Late Antique Paganism (Leiden: Brill): 165-193.
  • 2007: The Roman City and its Periphery: from Rome to Gaul (London: Routledge).
  • 2002: 'The provincial sanctuaries of the imperial cult at Lyon and Narbonne: examples of urban exclusion or social inclusion?', in Proceedings of the Symposium On Mediterranean Archaeology 2001, Liverpool (Oxford: BAR Int. Series 1040): 91-104.
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Student education

I welcome applications from prospective PhD candidates interested in all aspects of Roman history; particularly Roman urbanism and Roman politics.

I am currently supervising the following PhD projects:

I have also supervised the following completed PhD projects:

Research groups and institutes

  • History
  • Classics
  • Cities and Space

Current postgraduate researchers

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