Name and Title
Dr Edward Bispham
Qualifications
BA, MA, D.Phil. Oxon
Brasenose Status
Official Fellow
Academic Positions
University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Ancient History
Academic Background and Previous Positions
I read Literae Humaniores at Jesus College, Oxford, where I subsequently did my D.Phil. Subsequently I held a post-doctoral award at the British School at Rome (1994/5), before lecturing in the Department of Classics at Edinburgh for three years. In 1998 I returned to Oxford to become Stipendiary Lecturer in Ancient History at Brasenose and St. Anne's Colleges, and was fortunate enough the next year to be appointed as a Tutorial Fellow in succession to Greg Woolf, and thus indirectly to David Stockton; the position entails a Stipendiary Lectureship at St. Anne's College.
Undergraduate Teaching
I teach most history papers for Classics and CAAH Mods, and AMH prelims, as well as the Roman Core paper for CAAH Mods; and Archaeology and History for History prelims (with Dr Lesley Abrams). For Greats I teach all Greek and Roman period papers, all of the topic papers except for Gender and Sexuality, and both Roman archaeology papers; I teach a wide range of the finals papers in CAAH and AMH, in both Greek and Roman history. I lecture on Cicero and Roman Italy.
Research Interests
My research interests fall broadly into three categories at the moment: the history, archaeology and epigraphy of Italy, especially the impact of the Roman conquest; the political and cultural history of the Roman Republic; early Roman historiography. I am Co-Director of the Sangro Valley Project (Phase II), with Prof. Susan Kane, of Oberlin College, Ohio.
Publications
2010
The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. with B.A. Sparkes & T.E. Harrison, paperback edn, (Edinburgh: EUP)
2009
Europa romana (Spanish translation of Bispham 2008)
2008
‘What Lies Beneath: Ploughsoil Assemblages, the Dynamics of Taphonomy and the Interpretation of Field Survey Data', (with K. Swift & N. Wolff), in G. Lock & A. Faustoferri (eds), Archaeology and Landscape in Central Italy. Papers in Memory of John A. Lloyd. Oxford University School of Archaeology: Monograph 69 (Oxford: Oxbow), 53-76
Roman Europe. Short Oxford History of Europe (editor) (Oxford: OUP)
‘Introduction', in Bispham 2008, 1-7, 329
‘Warfare and the Army', in Bispham 2008, 136-69, 334-6
‘Religions', in Bispham 2008, 203-233, 337-9
‘Timeline', in Bispham 2008, 343-58
2007
‘Funerary Text Reused in the 2nd -Century Buildings', in A. Crowson, O. Gilkes et al., ‘The Archaeology of the Vrina Plain: an Assessment', in I.L. Hansen & R. Hodges (eds), Roman Butrint. An Assessment (Oxford: Oxbow), 119-164, at 156-158
‘A Lead Seal', in O. Gilkes, M. Moran & S. Tremlett et al., ‘Excavations outside the Monastic Precinct: the Samnite and Roman Settlement and the Early Medieval Industrial Complex', in K. Bowes, K. Francis & R. Hodges (eds), Between Text and Territory. Survey and Excavation in the Terra of San Vincenzo al Volturno. Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 16 (London: British School at Rome), 93-133, at 122-4, 132-3
From Asculum to Actium. The Municipalization of Italy from the Social War to Augustus (Oxford: OUP)
Vita Vigilia Est. Essays in Honour of Barbara Levick. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 100, ed. with G. Rowe and E. Matthews (London: Institute of Classical Studies)
‘Pliny the Elder's Italy', in Bispham, Rowe and Matthews 2007, 41-67
‘The Samnites', in G.J. Bradley, E. Isayev & C. Riva (eds), Ancient Italy. Regions without Boundaries (Exeter: Exeter University Press), 179-223
Pre-2007
‘The End of the Tabula Heracleensis: a Poor Man's Sanctio?', Epigraphica 59 (1997)
125-56
‘Carved in Stone: the Municpal Magistracies of Numerius Cluvius', in The
Epigraphic Landscape of Roman Italy (London, 2000), 39-75
‘Mimic. A Case Study in Early Roman Colonization', in State Identities in the First
Millenium B.C. (London, 2000), eds E. Herring and K. Lomas, 157-186
Religion in Archaic and Republican Rome and Italy: Evidence and Experience
(Edinburgh, 2000), (editor, with C.J. Smith)
‘Introduction' in Bispham and Smith, 2000, 1-18
‘Coloniam deducere: how Roman was Roman Colonization during the Middle
Republic', in Greek and Roman Colonization. Origins, Ideologies and Interactions, eds G. Bradley and J.-P. Wilson (Swansea, 2006), 74-160
‘Literary Sources', in R. Morstein-Marx & N. Rosenstein, The Blackwell Companion
to the Roman Republic (Oxford, 2006), 29-50
The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. with T. E. Harrison &
B.A. Sparkes (Edinburgh, 2006)
‘Roman Historiography', in Bispham, Harrison & Sparkes 2006, 384-90
‘Politics' in Bispham, Harrison & Sparkes 2006, 447-64
‘The Calendar' (with T.E. Harrison) in Bispham, Harrison & Sparkes 2006, 485-88
4 panelli on the hill-fort system at Montenerodomo (CH), Italy, commissioned by the Soprintendenza Archeologica per l'Abruzzo (with G.J. Bradley & O. Menozzi)
Forthcoming publications
‘Beneventum' &' Roman Colonization: the West', in A. Erskine, S. Mitchell & C. Smith (eds), Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford, 2011)
The Roman Republic 264-44 B.C. (London, 2011)
‘The Epigraphy of the Sangro Valley', in G. Lock & N. Christie (eds), The Sangro Valley Project. Phase I
‘Fabius Pictor', ‘Cincius Alimentus' & ‘Acilius', in T.J. Cornell, J.W. Rich & C.J. Smith (eds), The Fragmentary Roman Historians (Oxford, 2012)
‘The Hellenistics of Death in Central Apennine Italy', in J.W.J. Prag & J. Quinn (eds), The Hellenistic West (Cambridge, 2011)
Excavations at Monte Pallano 1994-2005 (ed. with S.E. Kane)
‘Time for Italy', in E. Cowan (ed.), Velleius Paterculus (Classical Press of Wales, 2011)
‘The Social War', ‘Italy, from Sulla to Caesar', ‘Non-Urban Settlement in Italy', in A.E. Cooley (ed.), The Blackwell Comapnion to Roman Italy (Oxford 2011)
‘Rome, Illyria and the Adriatic', in A. Erskine, J. Quinn, C.J. Smith & L. Yarrow (eds), Papers in Momory of Peter Derow (Oxford, 2012
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