Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Hugh ELTON
Department of Cultural Studies
Tel: +1 (705) 748-1011, ext. 7838
Fax: +1 (705) 748-1047
Trent University
1600 West Bank Drive
Peterborough, ON K9L 0G2
CANADA

EMPLOYMENT:

2011 - present Full Professor, Ancient History & Classics (Cultural studies), Trent University
2013 - 2015 Dean of Arts and Science – Humanities, Trent University
2010 - 2012 Acting Dean of Arts and Science – Humanities, Trent University
2006 - 2011 Associate Professor, Ancient History & Classics, Trent University
2007 – 2010, 2015-2016 Chair, Ancient History and Classics
2009 Acting Chair, Philosophy
2007 - 2008 Visiting Research Fellow, Classics, King's College, London
Director, British Institute at Ankara 2001 - 2006
1998 - 2001 Assistant Professor, Florida International University, FL
1997 - 1998 Visiting Lecturer, University of Connecticut, CT
1994 - 1998 Visiting Assistant Professor, Trinity College, CT
January 1993 - June 1994 Visiting Assistant Professor, Rice University, TX

EDUCATION and QUALIFICATIONS:

1986 - 1990 - The Queen's College, Oxford
- D.Phil. for doctoral thesis, Aspects of Defence in Roman Europe: AD 350-500
1983 - 1986 - University of Sheffield
- B.A. Honours dual degree in Ancient History/Classical Archaeology and Medieval History, 2.i
- Wellings Prize in Modern History (1984)
1981 - 1983 - Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge
- A-levels in Greek, Latin, History, Special papers in Latin, History

CURRENT AND FUTURE RESEARCH INTERESTS:

My current research involves two separate projects, both of which are concerned with how the Roman Empire functioned. The first of these is completing the publication of a pair of archaeological field surveys in Turkey, one in the Göksu Valley between Mut and Karaman (2002-2007) and one at Avkat near Çorum (2007-2010). These projects were designed to examine the impact of the Roman imperial state on the countryside in remote and poor areas. The work in the Göksu involved students from the US and the UK. At Avkat (co-run with Princeton-College of Charleston) Trent University provided a team of two faculty (including myself), two graduate students, and five undergraduates in 2008, two faculty, three graduate students and eight undergraduates in 2009. In both projects, techniques used include intensive-fieldwalking, extensive survey, magnetometry, satellite imagery, and GIS analysis of data in the field. Recent and current graduate students are involved with various aspects of publishing these projects.

The second is an investigation of the reign of Zeno, Roman Emperor (474-491). An unpopular figure in his own reign, the historiography of the reign of Zeno is frequently negative. Despite the subsequent historiography, Zeno was highly successful in defending his throne against a number of challenges. His reign thus provides a good way of examining the way in which politics worked in the Roman Empire of the late fifth century.

Both of these projects stem from earlier work focusing on the mechanics of the Roman Empire, particularly questions of definition. My first book, Warfare in Roman Europe: AD 350-425 (Oxford University Press, 1996; paperback 1998) examined the development and interaction of the military systems of Rome and her European enemies during the decline of the late Roman Empire. Relationships between Romans and non-Romans were also covered in my short monograph, Frontiers of the Roman Empire (published by Batsford and Indiana University Press, 1996; selection of the History Book Club in the US). Here, the Roman frontier was examined as a series of overlapping zones (civil, economic, and military) with attention paid to both sides of the border. A larger project is a Political and Military History of the Late Roman Empire (260-641) forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in 2017. This focusses on the mechanics of ruling the Roman Empire, with the thesis that the Empire was run by the consistory in which policy was debated in front of the Emperor by imperial officials and that the Emperor, despite accusations of being dominated by favourites, eunuchs, and family members who did not attend these meetings, was always the final arbiter. I have explored the same themes of identity and diversity in a number of prosopographical articles on Roman army officers in late antiquity (Fravitta, Illus) and on ethnicity (review article, Romans and Goths; Nature of the Sixth-century Isaurians). Questions of how the Empire and the army worked have been tackled in various ways in articles on government, most recently concerning politics in the reign of Theodosius II (408-450).

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

Greatrex, G. and Elton, H., eds., Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015)
Elton, H.W. and Reger, G., eds., Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (Bordeaux, Ausonius Press, 2007)
Warfare in the Roman Empire: A.D. 350-425 (Oxford: OUP, 1996, paperback 1998)(Polish: Warsaw 2013)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (London: Batsford; Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996).
Drinkwater, J.F., and Elton, H.W., eds., Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? (Cambridge: CUP, 1992, paperback 2002).

ARTICLES:

With P. Bikoulis, J. Haldon, and J. Newhard, “Above as below: application of multiple survey techniques at a Byzantine Church at Avkat” in Winther-Jacobsen, K. and Summerer, L., eds., Landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Early Byzantine period (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015), 101-117
With J. Haldon and J. Newhard, ‘Euchaita’, in Steadman, S. and McMahan, G., eds., The Archaeology of Anatolia: Current Work (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015), 332-355
“Olive Oil and Wine Production in Isauria: Results from the Göksu Archaeological Project in Turkey”, in Diler, A. Şenol, K. and Aydınoğlu, Ü., eds., Olive Oil and Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean during Antiquity (Izmir, 2015), 41-50
“Military Developments in the Fifth Century”, in Maas, M., ed., Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila (Cambridge: CUP, 2015), 125-139.
“Writing the Histories of Romans and Arabs in the Fifth-Century Roman East”, in Dijkstra, J. and Fisher, G. eds., Inside and Outside: Views of the Late Roman Empire (Peeters, 2014), 233-245.
With J. Haldon et al., “The climate and environment of Byzantine Anatolia: integrating science, history and archaeology”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45.2 (2014), 113-161
With E. Baysal, “A tomb with a view: the rock-cut cemetery at Alahan in Isauria”, Adalya 17 (2014), 181-208.
“Historical evidence for Zeugma in light of the results of the 2000 Excavation”, in Aylward, W., ed., Zeugma 2000: Rescue Excavations. (Los Altos: The Packard Humanities Institute, 2013), vol. 3. 375-380.
“Imperial Campaigning from Diocletian to Honorius”, in Sarantis, A. and Christie, N. eds., War and Warfare in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives (Late Antique Archaeology 8) (Leiden 2013), vol. 2. 655-682.
“Late Roman Churches in the Göksu Valley”, in Hoff, M. and Townsend, R., eds., Rough Cilicia: New Archaeological and Historical Approaches (Oxford: Oxbow, 2013), 225-238.
“Avkat Arkeoloji Projesi, 2007-2009” (with John Haldon, Jim Newhard, and Peter Bikoulis), 2. Çorum Kazı ve Araştırmalar Sempozyum (Çorum, 2012), 203-217.
“Avkat Archaeological Project 2007-2008” (with J. Haldon, J. Newhard, S. Lockwood), Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı 27.3 (2009), 29-51.
“Imperial Politics at the Court of Theodosius II”, in Cain, A. and Lenski, N., eds., The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009), 133-142.
“Alahan'da (Isaurya) bir Roma Kentinin Keşfi” (with M. Jackson, G. Mietke, J. Newhard, L. Özgenel, and E. Twigger), Olba 17 (2009), 83-116.
“Göksu Archaeological Project 2005-2006”, Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı 25.2 (Ankara, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2008), 237-250.
“Rome and the Barbarians”, in de Souza, P. ed., The Ancient World at War (London, Thames and Hudson, 2008), 202-215.
“Geography, Labels, Romans and Cilicia”, in Elton, H.W. and Reger, G., eds., Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (Bordeaux, Ausonius Press, 2007), 25-31.
“Cavalry in Late Roman Warfare”¸ in Lewin, A.S. and Pellegrini, P., eds., The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest: Proceedings of a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy (May 2005), BAR S1717 (Oxford: BAR, 2007), 377-381.
“Roman Military Forces from the Third to the Seventh Centuries” in Sabin, P., Van Wees, H. and Whitby, M., eds., The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (Cambridge: CUP, 2007), 270-309.
“Göksu Arkeoloji Projesi”, in Öztürk, I., ed., Silifke Müzesi Konferansları (Silifke, 2007), 91-95.
“Army and Battle in the Age of Justinian” in Erdkamp, P., ed., A Companion to the Roman Army (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 532-550.
“Ecclesiastical Politics in Late Antique Isauria”, in Drinkwater, J.F. and Salway, B., Wolf Liebeschuetz Reflected (London, Institute of Classical Studies, 2007), BICS Supp. 91, 77-85.
“Church Decoration in Late Roman Lycia”, in Dörtlük, K., et al. eds., The IIIrd International Symposium on Lycia, Symposium Proceedings, (Antalya: Suna-Inan Kirac Research Institute on Mediterranean Civilizations, 2006), vol. 1, 239-242.
“The Roman Countryside at Alahan, Turkey”, in Lewin, A.S. and Pellegrini, P., eds., Settlements and Demography in the Near East in Late Antiquity. Proceedings of the colloquium, Matera 27-29 October 2005 (Rome, Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2006), 59-66.
“A new late Roman urban centre in Isauria”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 19 (2006), 300-311
(with M. Jackson, G. Mietke, J. Newhard, L. Özgenel, and E. Twigger).
“Transformation of Government under Diocletian and Constantine”, in Potter, D., ed., The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire (London: Blackwell, 2006), 193-205.
“Recent Work at Alahan”, in Günel, S., ed., Festschrift for Hayat Erkanal (Istanbul, Homer Kitabevi, 2006), 310-316.
“Göksu Archaeological Project 2002-2004”, Araştırma Sonuçları Toplantısı 23.1 (Ankara, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, 2006), 331-342.
“Warfare and the Military in the Age of Constantine” in Lenski, N., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Constantine (Cambridge: CUP, 2006), 325-346.
“LR 1 Amphorae and the economy of southern Asia Minor”, in Gurt i Esparraguera, J.M., et al. eds., First International Conference on Late Roman Coarse Wares, Cooking Wares and Amphorae, Barcelona, BAR S1340 (Oxford: BAR, 2005), 691-695.
“Military supply on the south coast of Anatolia in the 3rd century AD”, in Mitchell, S. and Katsari, C., eds., Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor (Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2005), 289-304.
with G. Greatrex and R. Burgess, “Urbicius' Epitedeuma: An Edition, Translation and Commentary”, Byzantinische Zeitschrift 98 (2005), 35-74.
“Romanization and some Cilician Cults”, in de Ligt, L. et al., eds., Roman rule and civic life: local and regional perspectives (Amsterdam: Gieben, 2004), 231-241.
“Cilicia, Geography and the Late Roman Empire”, Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity, ed. L. Ellis and F. Kidner, (Aldershot: Variorum, 2004), 5-10.
“The economy of Cilicia in late antiquity”, Olba 8 (2003), 173-181 + pl. 35-36.
“Alahan and Zeno”, Anatolian Studies 52 (2002), 153-157.
“The Economic Fringe: The Reach of the Roman Empire in Rough Cilicia”, in de Blois, L. and Rich, J., eds., The Transformation of Economic Life under the Roman Empire (Amsterdam: Gieben, 2002), 172-183.
“Illus and the Late Roman Aristocracy under Zeno”, Byzantion 70 (2000), 393-407.
“The Nature of the Sixth-century Isaurians”, in Mitchell, S. and Greatrex, G., eds., Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity (Swansea: University of Wales Press, 2000), 293-307.
“Off the Battlefield: The Civilian's View of Late Roman Soldiers”, Expedition 39.2 (1997), 42-50.
“Romans and Goths: Recent Approaches”, review article on Heather, P., Goths and Romans; Liebeschuetz, J., Barbarians and Bishops; Cameron, A. and Long, J., Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius; Heather, P. and Matthews, J., The Goths in the Fourth Century, Journal of Roman Archaeology 9 (1996), 566-574.
“Fravitta and Barbarian Career Opportunities in Constantinople”, Medieval Prosopography 17/1 (1996), 95-106.
“Defining Romans, Barbarians and the Roman Frontier” in Mathisen, R.W. and Sivan, H.S., eds., Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (Aldershot: Variorum, 1996), 126-135.
“Tile Studies” in Coccia, S., Mattingly, D., et al., “The Rieti Survey 1988-1991, Part II. The Finds, Settlement Patterns and Gazetteer”, Papers of the British School at Rome 63 (1995), 105-158.
“The Defence of Gaul” in Drinkwater, J.F., and Elton, H.W., eds., Fifth-Century Gaul: A Crisis of Identity? (Cambridge: CUP, 1992), 167-176.
“The Tiles” in Coccia, S., Mattingly, D., et al., “Settlement History, Environment and Human Exploitation of an Intermontane Basin in the Central Apennines: the Rieti Survey, 1988-1991, Part I”, Papers of the British School at Rome 60 (1992), 213-289.

In Press:

“Changes in Routes in the Göksu Valley between the Bronze Age and the Karamanids”, in Vandeput, L. et al., eds., Pathways of Communication: Roads and Routes in Anatolia from Prehistory to Seljuk Times [4000 words]
The Late Roman Empire: a political and military history (150,000 word final MS submitted November 2015, publication fall 2016)
With J. Haldon and J. Newhard, “Euchaita”, in Niewöhner, P., ed., The Archaeology of Byzantine Anatolia. From the End of Late Antiquity to the Coming of the Turks (Oxford: OUP 2016) [3,500 words]
“The settlement at Alahan: an example of dispersed urbanism?”, Kırsal ve Kent (City and Countryside), ed. Aydınoğu, Ü., et al., (Mersin, 2016) [4000 words]

Forthcoming:

Cilicia and Rome in Late Antiquity, Book MS, sample chapters favourably reviewed by OUP
“Scythed Chariots: A misunderstood weapon?”, 4,000 word article

Selected reviews and short articles (since 1999):

Review of Wijnendaele, J., The Last of the Romans: Bonifatius, warlord and comes Africae (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) in https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2016/2016.01.38
Review of Izdebski, A., A Rural Economy in Transition: Asia Minor from Late Antiquity into the Early Middle Ages (Warsaw, 2013) in Byzantinische Zeitschrift 107.2 (2014), 903-905
Review of Linnemann, J.C., Die Nekropolen von Diokaisareia (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013) in http://www.bmcreview.org/2014/04/20140445.html
Review of Kim, H.J., The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe (Cambridge: CUP, 2013) in Networks and Neighbours 2 (2014), 109-111 www.networksandneighbours.org
Review of Kramer, N., Keramik und Kleinfunde aus Diokaisareia (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013.04.17/
Review of Mac Sweeney, N., Community Identity and Archaeology. Dynamic Communities at
Aphrodisias and Beycesultan. (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2011) in Classical Review 63.1 (2013) (http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0009840X12003149)
Review of Grig, L. and Kelly, G., eds., Two Romes: Rome and Constantinople in Late Antiquity (Oxford: OUP, 2012) Mouseion 12.3 (2012), 372-373
“The Avkat Archaeological Project, 2012” (with John Haldon, Jim Newhard, John Wall, and Angelina Phebus), Heritage Turkey 2 (2012), 30-31
Review of Kelly, C.M., The End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome (New York: Norton, 2009), in Michigan War Studies Review (http://www.miwsr.com/2012-052.aspx)
Review of Shean, J., Soldiering for God (Leiden: Brill, 2010) in The Journal of Military History 76 (2012), 224
“The Avkat Archaeological Project 2011” (with John Haldon and Jim Newhard), Heritage Turkey 1 (2011), 35-36
“The Avkat Archaeological Project 2010” (with John Haldon and Jim Newhard), Anatolian Archaeology 16 (2010), 16-17
Review of Pitassi, M., The Navies of Rome (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2009) in The Northern Mariner 20 (2010), 232-234
Review of Goldsworthy, A.K., How Rome fell: death of a superpower (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.03.63, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010.03.63/
Review of Lee, A.D., War in Late Antiquity, (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007), in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 16 (2009), 598-600
“The Avkat Archaeological project” (with John Haldon and Jim Newhard), Anatolian Archaeology 15 (2009), 17-18
Review of De Blois, L. and Lo Cascio, E., eds., The Impact of the Roman Army (200 B.C. – A.D. 476): Economic, Social, Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects (Leiden: Brill, 2007) in Ancient History Bulletin 22 (2008), 152-153
“The Avkat Archaeological project” (with John Haldon and Jim Newhard), Anatolian Archaeology 14 (2008), 17-20
Review of Haarer, F., Anastasius I (Leeds, Francis Cairns, 2006) in Phoenix 52 (2008), 232-234
Review of Merkelbach, R. and Stauber, J., Steinepigramme aus dem Griechischen Osten, vol. 4, (Munich, K.G. Saur Verlag, 2004) in Classical Review 58.1 (2008), 305
2007 Avkat Season short report (with John Haldon) at http://www.princeton.edu/avkat/reports/
Review of Liebeschuetz, J.H.W.G., Decline and Change in Late Antiquity (Variorum: Aldershot, 2006) in Scripta Classica Israelica 26 (2007), 236-237
Review of Bishop, M. and Coulston, J.C.N., Roman Military Equipment (Oxford, 2006) in JRA 20 (2007), 488-490
Review of Feld, K., Barbarische Bürger (Berlin, de Gruyter, 2005) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.12.15, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2007/2007.12.15/
Review of Goffart, W., Barbarian Tides (Philadelphia: U. Penn. Press, 2006) in Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007), 385-387
“Göksu Archaeological Project 2006”, Anatolian Archaeology 12 (2006), 19-21.
“Göksu Archaeological Project 2005”, Anatolian Archaeology 11 (2005), 16-18.
“Göksu Archaeological Project”, Anatolian Archaeology 10 (2004), 26-28.
Review of Hekster, O., Commodus: An Emperor at the Crossroads (Amsterdam: Gieben, 2002) in Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003), 397
“Göksu Archaeological Project”, Anatolian Archaeology 9 (2003), 28-30.
Review of Merkelbach, R. and Stauber, J., Steinepigramme aus dem Griechischen Osten, vol. 3, (Munich, K.G. Saur Verlag, 2001) in Classical Review 53 (2003) 486-487.
Review of Ross, S.K., Roman Edessa (London: Routledge, 2000) in Classical Review 52 (2002), 133-134
“Göksu Archaeological Project”, Anatolian Archaeology 8 (2002), 24.
Review of Harrison, M., Mountain and Plain (Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2001) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 02.03.07.
Review of Gabrielsen, V., The Naval Aristocracy of Hellenistic Rhodes (Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 1997) for International Journal of Maritime History 13.1 (2001), 238.
Review of Müller, F.L., ed. and tr., Vegetius: Abriss des Militärwesens (Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1997) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.01.13, https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2001/2001.01.13/
Review of Lund, A., Die ersten Germanen: Ethnizität und Ethnogenese (Heidelberg, Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 1998) in Classical Review 49 (1999), 609-610.

Non-refereed:

With E. Equini Schneider and Wannagat, D., Temple to Church/Tapınaktan Kiliseye (Istanbul, Ege Yayınları, 2007)
A Pipeline Through History: A non-technical summary of the archaeology of the BTC Pipeline (Ankara, BP, 2006)

COURSES TAUGHT (1993-2016):

Daily Life in the Roman World, Greek History, Roman History, Byzantine History, Introduction to Ancient History, Western Civilization: Part 1, The Trojan War, Age of Alexander the Great, Ancient Warfare, Archaeology in Israel (field course, at Caesarea Maritima), Byzantine, Arab and Turkish Empires, Classical City, Late Roman Empire, Roman Imperial History, Roman Imperial Provinces, Roman Republican History, Anglo-Saxon England, Art and Architecture of the Near East in the Roman Era, Roman Imperial Warfare, Politics in Fifth Century Constantinople, The Emperor Zeno, Isauria in the Late Roman Empire, Roman Britain, The Archaeology of Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (field course, with Stephen Mitchell, Exeter), Anatolian Archaeology, Greek Agriculture, Archaeology of Early Christian East Mediterranean

Latin Language: Intermediate Latin (Wheelock, Caesar, Catullus), Augustan Literature (Virgil, Horace, Livy), Tacitus, Agricola, Late Roman Latin (Anonymus Valesianus Pars Prior, St. Augustine, Jordanes, legislation), Juvenal,

Greek Language: Homer and Herodotus, Callistus

MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE:

Italy: Matrice Study Season (1985), Cosa Excavation (1990, 1991), Rieti Survey, Excavation, Study Season (1989-1993)
Greece: Nemea Valley Survey, Study Season (2006, 02007)
Israel: Caesarea Maritima Excavation (1995)
Turkey: Balboura Survey (1991), Aperlae Survey (1996), Zeugma Excavation (2000), Göksu Archaeological Project (Director) (2002-2007), Avkat Archaeological Project (Director) (2007-2010)
I have also carried out fieldwork in the UK and France (Somme Valley survey), and visited archaeological sites in Spain, Bulgaria, Georgia, and the Ukraine.

Selected Presentations (since 2007):

May 2016 “Gaming in the Classroom in 2016”, Tech and Teaching Day, Trent University
April 2016 “The settlement at Alahan: an example of dispersed urbanism?”, Kırsal ve Kent (City and Countryside) conference, Mersin University, Turkey
October 2015 “Alahan and fieldwork in Turkey”, Cilicia Day, workshop at University of Aarhus, Denmark
October 2015 “Changing Patterns of Urbanization in Roman Isauria”, Turk Tarih Kurumu conference, Muğla, Turkey
October 2015 “Siege Warfare in Late Antiquity”, AIA-Canadian War Museum, Ottawa
October 2014 Classical Association of Canada lecture tour. “Lost City of Alahan”: University of Winnipeg, University of British Columbia, University of Victoria; “The Late Roman Army and the Huns”: University of Manitoba, Calgary University, University of Victoria
April 2014 “The Changing Landscape of Euchaita: some results from the Avkat Archaeological Project”, Landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Early Byzantine period, Amasya, Turkey
March 2014 “Changes in Routes in the Göksu Valley between the Bronze Age and the Karamanids”, Pathways of Communication: Roads and Routes in Anatolia from Prehistory to Seljuk Times, Ankara, Turkey
February 2013 “The Late Roman Army and the Huns”, Carleton University
October 2012 “Writing the Histories of Romans and Arabs in the Late Roman East”, Inside and Out: Interactions between Rome and the Peoples on the Arabian and Egyptian Frontier, University of Ottawa-Carleton University
November 2011 “Olive Oil and Wine Production in Isauria: Results from the Göksu Archaeological Project in Turkey”, Olive Oil and Wine Production in Eastern Mediterranean during antiquity, Izmir, Turkey
October, 2011 “Into the Mountains: The Göksu Archaeological Project, 2002-2007”, Canadian Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Toronto
July, 2011 “The Avkat Archaeological Project: archaeology, history and survey” RCAC, Istanbul, Turkey
June, 2011 “Making Emperors in the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth and sixth centuries”, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity 9, State College, Pennsylvania
May, 2011 “Problems with Late Roman Frontiers”, University of Newcastle, UK
October, 2010 “The Archaeology of Late Roman Warfare”, Bagnani Symposium, Trent University
May, 2010 “Agents and Modelling in pre-Modern Warfare”, SHARCNET (Digital Humanities), York University
April, 2010 “Modelling Late Roman Warfare: Julian in Persia”, Princeton University
January, 2010 “The Avkat Archaeological Project, 2006-2009”, presentation to the Board of Governors, Trent University
January 2010 “The Emperor Anastasius and the granting of civic status to Euchaita”, History Day, Trent University
October 2009 “Scythed Chariots: A misunderstood weapon?”, The Many Faces of War, University of Calgary
May 2009 “GIS and Humanities: Some Thoughts on What Not to Do”, Trent-Windsor Digital Humanities symposium, SHARCFEST, Trent University
October 2008 “The Avkat Archaeological Project 2008”, British Institute at Ankara
September 2008 “Review of Chapter 5: The State”, Late Antique Workshop on Mitchell, The Late Roman Empire, University of Ottawa
May 2008 “Avkat Arkeoloji Projesi, 2008”, Turkish Archaeology Symposium, Ankara
March 2008 “Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from Avkat 2007”, Edmonton, University of Alberta
March 2008 “How to write History (With apologies to Lucian and Lendon)”, Discourses of War in the Roman World, University of Warwick
March 2008, “The Christianization of Isauria”, University of Nottingham
October 2007 “Late Roman Churches in the Göksu Valley”, Rough Cilicia: New Approaches, Lincoln, Nebraska
May 2007 “Göksu Yüzey Araştırmaları 2006”, Turkish Archaeology Symposium, Izmit, Turkey.
March 2007 “Imperial politics and religion in the mid-fifth century east”, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity 7, Boulder, Colorado
March 2007 “Imperial Campaigning from Diocletian to Honorius”, Late Antique Archaeology, Oxford
January 2007 “Problems in the Historiography of Ancient Battle: the Keegan Effect”, Edmonton, University of Alberta

Grants Awarded ($500 or over):

2013 Trent University, SSHRC International Travel Grant, $900 for Avkat Archaeological Project Workshop on Climate Change in Mediaeval Anatolia, Princeton University
2011 Trent University, SSHRC International Travel Grant, $1500 for Olive Oil & Wine Production in the Eastern Mediterranean, Izmir, Turkey
2011 Trent University, SSHRC International Travel Grant, $1054 for Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity IX, Pennsylvania State University
2010 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, $43,127 over 3 years for “Isauria and the Isaurians in the Late Roman Empire”
2010 Trent University, SSHRC International Travel Grant, $977.94 for Princeton Workshop on Medieval Logistics and Modelling Medieval Warfare
2008 Trent University, SSHRC Operating Grant, $1500 for Avkat Project
2007 Trent University, SSHRC International Travel Grant, $823.46 for Oxford Conference on Late Antique Archaeology
2007 Trent University, SSHRC Operating Grant, $2000 for Avkat Project
2005 Temple to Church: EU Culture 2000, €50,000 (between 4 projects).
2005 British Institute of Archaeology in Anatolia, £18,000 for Göksu Project.
2004 British Institute of Archaeology in Anatolia, £19,500 for Göksu Project.
2004 Dumbarton Oaks, $3,000 for Göksu Project (not taken up).
2003 Society of Antiquaries, £1,500 for Göksu Project.
2003 British Institute of Archaeology in Anatolia, £17,500 for Göksu Project.
2002 British Institute of Archaeology in Anatolia, £8,000, for Göksu Project.
2000 FIU Grant-in-Aid Program, $840 for travel in Turkey (summer).
2000 FIU Grant-in-Aid Program, $900 for travel in Turkey (spring).
2000 Hugh Last Fund (Roman Society) £500 for Oinoanda Project.
2000 British Institute of Archaeology in Anatolia, £8,000, for Oinoanda Project.
1999 FIU Grant-in-Aid Program, $1,000 for travel in Turkey (autumn).
1999 with Martin Smith, AHRB, £5,250, for Oinoanda Project.
1999 British Institute of Archaeology in Anatolia, £7,000, for Oinoanda Project.
1999 FIU Grant-in-Aid Program, $900 for travel in Turkey (summer).
1997 Dean's Grant for Conference Promotion, $5,000, for “Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor Conference”, with Gary Reger.

RECENT WORK EXPERIENCE:

As first Acting Dean and then Dean of Arts + Science (Humanities) 2010-2015, I steered new degree programmes in Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts and Science, and Journalism through the university’s approval process. I worked to develop a sense of identity among the Humanities (previously administered in one unit with Sciences and Social Sciences). And I carried out the regular duties of administering a staff of c. 65 permanent instructors. In addition, I occasionally deputized for the Provost, in an Emergency Management Exercise, chairing the Academic Planning + Budget committee or serving as Acting Provost during vacations. I have served as SSHRC Leader for Trent on behalf of the VP Research and International.

Earlier in my career, I was Director of the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) for five years between 2001 and 2006. The position involved working with a wide range of researchers, including geologists, historians, textual specialists, and anthropologists. Most of these researchers were concerned with Turkey, but there were numerous occasions to work with scholars interested in countries surrounding the Black Sea. The Director's position was 50% research, 50% administration. In Ankara, two major administrative responsibilities were to assist in drafting the Corporate Plan and Research Policy, and to help prepare the annual applications for funding to the British Academy. Other responsibilities were the day-to-day running of the Ankara office (local staff of four full-time and two part-time as well as a post-doctoral fellow and graduate researcher; annual budget of c. £80,000), handling queries from researchers, managing the library acquisitions process (annual budget, c. £20,000), building and staff safety, and determining and implementing IT policy. Frequent liaison with the Turkish archaeological authorities, the British Embassy, and the British Council taught me how to work effectively with high-level non-specialists. I was also part of the BIAA Research Committee which distributed research grants to researchers and made recommendations regarding grants to Turkish academics. I also acted as a referee for the BIAA journal, Anatolian Studies.

I was also involved in three large additional projects beyond the usual functions of the Institute. The first was upgrading the library facilities and making the library catalogue web-accessible, thanks to a $75,000 grant from the Packard Humanities Institute. The second was helping to create and administer the British Academy Black Sea Initiative, a three year (2002-2005) interdisciplinary program designed to encourage British research in the Black Sea Region. The third was providing archaeological advice for the Turkish section of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan pipeline. This $3.5 billion project involved 17 salvage excavations over 1,076 km of pipeline in Turkey. I was responsible for providing advice about current best international practice about the archaeology, Health and Safety, and capacity improvement for Turkish archaeologists. This involved working with the Environmental Impact Assessment team of BTC (the pipeline management company) as well as with Turkish archaeologists in both Ankara and the field.

Graduate Supervision:

Trent University: MA Anthropology

2015:- Supervisor, Jordan Dill, Alicia Hartley
2014-: Supervisor: Chris Langlois
2013-: Supervisor: Laura Fyfe
2012-2015: Supervisor: Colleen Johnston: The Function of the Church Complex at Alahan
2011-2015: Supervisor: Amandah van Merlin: Agricultural Decision-making in Antiquity: A Case Study from the Göksu Valley, Turkey
2011-2014: Supervisor: Nayla Abu Izzeddin: Exploring Least Cost Path Analysis: A Case Study from the Göksu Valley, Turkey
2008-2012: Supervisor: Gwilym Hayward: The Social Organization of the Greek Mainland in the Third Millennium BC
2009-2010: Supervisor: Ceren Kabukcu: Early Agriculture in Northern Syria: Botanical Remains from Jerablus Tahtani
2007-2009: Supervisor: Peter Bikoulis: The Structure and Role of Settlement in the Göksu Valley and south-central Anatolia: a GIS and Social Network Approach

FIU: MA History

2000-2001: Supervisor, Marcy Duarte: Women in Roman Imperial Politics

Professional (since 1998):

2015 External Examiner, Lucas McMahon, University of Ottawa, MA, Foederati in the Late Roman Army
2014 External Examiner, University of Melbourne, PhD, Aleksandra Michalewicz, Mortuary Customs in Caucasian Iberia
2013 Program Committee, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity 10 (2013)
2012 SSHRC Insight Development Grants (Group 1, Committee 1)
2011 Committee Chair, SSHRC Insight Development Grants (Group 1, Committee 2)
2008 External Examiner, University of Pennsylvania, PhD, Günder Varinlioğlu, Isaurian Settlement in Late Antiquity
2009 External Examiner, University of Liverpool, PhD, Antony Dean, Romanisation of Nabataea
2009 External Examiner, University of Ottawa, MA, Patrick Roussel, Étude des problèmes reliés à la 'barbarisation'
Appointed as President, APA Three Year Colloquium on Late Antiquity (resigned when appointed to Ankara)
1999 Program Committee, Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity 4 (2001)
1998-2000 Governing Body, The Society for Late Antiquity
1998-2002 Governing Body, Byzantine Studies Conference

Refereeing and grant assessment:

Assessor for SSHRC, NSF, Dumbarton Oaks, the Loeb Foundation, AHRC (British equivalent of SSHRC/NEH), University of Western Ontario, National Geographic Society, and Royal Geographical Society research grant applications.

Journal referee for American Journal of Archaeology, Anatolian Studies, Ancient History Bulletin, Anthichton, Antiquity, Byzantinisches Zeitschrift, Byzantinoslavica, Classical Quarterly, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Late Antiquity, Journal of Ancient History, Journal of Medieval Military History, Journal of Military History, Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, War in History, and World Archaeology.

MS referee for Blackwell, Brill, California University Press, Cambridge University Press (UK and US), Harvard University Press, Oklahoma University Press, Oxford University Press (UK and US), and Routledge.

Professional Development

Emergency Management Exercises: British Embassy, Ankara, 2005; Trent University, 2011, 2012
Conflict Resolution Workshop: Trent University, 2008
Deans’ Training: Trent University, 2010
CODAS: University of Western Ontario, 2010; York, 2015
CCDAHSS: Queen’s, 2011, Victoria 2012
Faculty Bargaining Services Workshop, Trent University, 2011
Media Training, Trent University, 2011
SSHRC Leaders Conference, Ottawa 2011, 2013, 2014
Peer-Review in Personnel Decisions workshop, Trent University, 2013
SafeTalk Suicide Awareness training, Trent University, 2013
Senior University Administrators Course (SUAC), 2014

University Service: Trent University (2006-current)
Ancient History and Classics

MARS Liaison Committee, 2006-2010
Chair Search Committee, 2006
Timetabling, 2006-2007, 2015-2016
Chair, 2007-2010, 2015-2016
Chair, Tenure Committee, 2008-2009

University

Graduate Studies Committee, 2006-2007
Curriculum and Regulations Subcommittee, 2006-2007
Mackenzie King Scholarship Selection Subcommittee, 2006-7, 2007-2008
SSHRC MA and PhD Selection Subcommittee, 2006-2007
Committee on Academic Promotions, 2008-2010
Merit, Research Profiles Subcommittee, 2008-2009
Chair, Tenure and Promotions Subcommittee, 2009-2010
Member of Anthropology Graduate Programme, 2006-current
SSHRC and OGS ranking subcommittee, 2007
Anthropology Graduate Programme Chair Search Committee, 2008
Acting Director June-July 2008
Richard B. Johnston (RBJ) Fund for Archaeology Committee, 2009
Member of History Graduate Program, 2010-2015
University Senate (2007-2009)
University Senate Executive (2007-2009)
Nominating & Governance Subcommittee (2007-2008)
Faculty Board (2007-2010, 2015-16)
English Department, Tenure review committee, External Member, 2007
Employment Equity Subcommittee reviewing faculty hiring practices at Trent, 2008
Trent representative on OGS Anthropology committee for OCGS, 2008-2010
Champlain College Advising Committee Member, 2008-2010
Nozhem Steering Committee, 2008-2009
Humanities Research Day Committee, 2008
Organiser, Humanities Caucus, 2009-2010
Acting Chair, Philosophy, July 1-December 31, 2009
Library, Tenure review committee, External Member, 2009-2010
Advisory Committee on Changing Academic Structures, 2009-2010
Provost and Vice-President Academic Search Committee, 2009-2010
Associate Registrar of Recruitment and Admissions Search Committee, 2010
Registrar Search Committee, 2010-2011
IT Business Analyst Search Committee, 2011
Strategic Enrolment Management Committee, 2011-2012, 2013-2014
Trent-United World Colleges Scholarship Committee, 2012
Advisory Committee on Academic Planning, 2012
Trent Bookstore Committee, 2014
CUPE 1 Joint Committee, 2014
Privacy Committee, 2014-2015
Acting Dean of Humanities (ex officio: Senate, Faculty Board, Extended Management, Vice President Academic Administrators’ Committee, Provost’s Planning Group, Senate Academic Planning and Budget, Humanities Decanal Advisory), 2010-2011
Acting Dean of Humanities (ex officio: Senate, Senate Executive, Faculty Board, Extended Management, Provost’s Planning Group, IT Steering, Senate Academic Planning and Budget (Chair), Humanities Decanal Advisory), 2011-2012
Dean of Humanities (ex officio: Senate, Senate Executive, Faculty Board, Senior Management Committee, IT Steering, Provost’s Planning Group, Senate Academic Planning and Budget (Chair), Humanities Decanal Advisory, Undergraduate Studies Committee (Vice-Chair)), 2013 – 2015
Committee on Undergraduate Petitions, 2015-2016
History Graduate Committee, 2015

At Trent, I received a merit award for Research and Service in fall 2009 and was nominated for the Symons award for teaching in 2011.