Social Archaeology Research Group Postgraduate Students

Some of our recent research degree students and their thesis titles

Alexandra Knox (a.e.s.knox@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
The sacred in the secular: investigating Anglo-Saxon ritual action and belief systems through a holistic study of settlements and cemeteries in the 7th-9th centuries AD
(Completed: 05/12/2012 )
Supervised by: Professor Roberta Gilchrist ,  Dr Gabor Thomas

Alice Rogers (a.j.rogers@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Coastal connections: the archaeology of the North Sea coastline from 4000-1500 BC.
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley ,  Professor R W Chapman

Ash Lenton (d.a.lenton@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Structuring Ethnicity: Ethnic Identities & Diasporic communities in the Architecture of Later Medieval Cordoba, 10th to 16th Centuries.
Supervised by: Professor Roberta Gilchrist

Cecilia Moine (c.moine@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Identity of Late Medieval Nunneries in Northern Italy.
(Completed: 14/12/2012 )
Supervised by: Professor Grenville Astill ,  Professor Roberta Gilchrist

Courtney Nimura (c.r.nimura@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Roack and Rolling Sea: rock art and environmental change in prehistoric Scandinavia
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley

David Mudd (d.j.mudd@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Ground Stone Assemblage from Testansur, Iraqi Kurdistan: Economic and Social Implications.
Supervised by: Professor Roger Matthews ,  Dr Wendy Matthews

Elena Martelli (e.martelli@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Roman Archaeology - Terracotta material from Roman Ostia.
Supervised by: Dr Hella Eckardt ,  Professor Michael Fulford

Elise Fraser
The Regionality of Bronze Age Burial Traditions around the Irish Sea.
(Completed: 13/03/2013 )
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley

Giansimone Poggi (g.poggi@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Mediterranean Prehistory.
(Completed: 08/11/2012 )
Supervised by: Emeritus Professor Bob Chapman ,  Dr Robert Hosfield

Guido Guarducci (g.guarducci@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
The Lands of Nairi: social and material culture networking among the communities of Eastern Anatolia during the late Bronze and Iron Ages.
Supervised by: Professor Roger Matthews ,  Dr Wendy Matthews

Mark Blagg-Newsome (m.s.blagg- newsome@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
An examination of regional exploitation of wild mammals and birds in Roman Britain.
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Aleks Pluskowski

Meike Weber (m.b.weber@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Samian supply to the North Western Provinces of the Roman Empire.
(Completed: 13/03/2013 )
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Hella Eckardt

Rosemary Stewart
The use of cherts and other siliceous lithic materials in British late prehistory.
Supervised by: Professor Richard Bradley

Rosie Weetch (r.weetch@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Late Anglo-Saxon brooches in context.
Supervised by: Dr Gabor Thomas

Stephen Myers (s.d.myers@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
Early Roman Settlement to the Late Medieval Periods.
Supervised by: Professor Michael Fulford ,  Dr Nick Branch ,  Professor Grenville Astill

Zoe Knapp (z.e.knapp@pgr.reading.ac.uk)
A Zooarchaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Conversion.
Supervised by: Dr Gabor Thomas ,  Dr Aleks Pluskowski