Rachel Mairs

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Professor
Examinations Officer
Areas of interest
Multilingualism, ethnicity, cultural interaction, papyrology, epigraphy, central Asia, Hellenistic Egypt, Bactria and India, nineteenth-century Middle East.
I'm interested in the interaction between Greeks and "non-Greeks" in the Hellenistic world, with a particular emphasis on Egypt and on Central Asia. My PhD (Cambridge, 2006) was on ethnic identity in the "Hellenistic Far East" (Bactria-Sogdiana, Arachosia and India). My publications on the region include The Archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: A Survey (2011), The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language and Identity in Greek Central Asia (2014) and The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World (2020). I am one of the organisers of the Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network (HCARN).
I also work on ancient multilingualism, especially Greek-Egyptian. I have worked on collaborative research projects dealing with papyrological and epigraphic material, such as the AHRC-funded Corpus of Ptolemaic Inscriptions. With colleagues in Egypt and Canada, I run the blog Everyday Orientalism, which works to highlight the legacies of colonialism in papyrology and classics.
The modern Middle East interests me as much as the ancient Middle East. A chance find on eBay led me to publish the private papers of a nineteenth-century Palestinian tourist guide (The Dragoman Solomon Negima and his Clients, 2016). With a colleague, Maya Muratov at Adelphi University in the United States, I published a book on the interpreters and guides used by early British and American travellers in the Middle East (Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters, 2015). I have a new project on Europeans studying Arabic in the nineteenth-century.
Research centres and groups
Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (Steering Committee)
Background
Before coming to Reading, I worked at Brown University, the University of Oxford and New York University. My PhD was from the University of Cambridge.
Websites/blogs
Publications
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 (2023) Languages at war: military interpreters in antiquity and the modern world. In: Pavlenko, A. , (eds.) Multilingualism and History. Cambridge University Press pp. 90-106.
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 (2022) Central Asian challenges to Seleucid authority: synchronism, correlation, and causation. In: Kosmin, P. and Moyer, I. , (eds.) Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East. Oxford University Press pp. 231-245. ISBN: 9780192863478 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192863478.001.0001
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 , Morris, L. , Zellman-Rohrer, M. (2022) The temple inscription from Khwaja ‘Ali Sehyaka/Sehyak. In: Trousdale, W. and Allen, M. , (eds.) The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan. Volume 1: Survey and Excavation. Edinburgh University Press pp. 668-681. ISBN: 9781399503730
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 (2022) Kingship and Ruler Cult in Hellenistic Bactria: Beyond the Numismatic Sources. In: Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. and Pfeiffer, S. , (eds.) Culture and Ideology under the Seleukids: Unframing a Dynasty. De Gruyter , Berlin / Boston. pp. 297-312. ISBN: 9783110755572 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110755626-018
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 (2021) The Indo-Greek cultural encounter: comparative approaches. In: Seshan, R. , (eds.) Indo-Hellenic Cultural Transactions. K. R. Cama Institute , Mumbai. pp. 101-116.
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 , eds. (2021) The Hellenistic far east in historical fiction: ancient history, modern ideologies. In: Stančo, L. and Havlík, J. , (eds.) Studia Hercynia , 2021 (1). pp. 119-131. ISSN: 2336-8144 (Central Asia Under and After Alexander. Proceedings of the Third Meeting of the Hellenistic Central Asia Research Network, edited by J. Havlík and L. Stančo)
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 , Savvopoulos, K. (2021) Corpus of Ptolemaic inscriptions part I: Greek, bilingual, and trilingual inscriptions from Egypt. Volume 1. Alexandria and the Delta (Nos. 1–206). Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents , 1. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp 576. ISBN: 9780198860495
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 (2021) Ai Khanoum God with feet of marble’: reading Ai Khanoum through Commagene. In: Blömer, M. , Riedel, S. , Versluys, M. , Winter, E. , (eds.) Common Dwelling Place of all the Gods. Franz Steiner Verlag ISBN: 9783515129251
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 and Fischer-Bovet, C. (2021) Chapter 2 - Reassessing Hellenistic settlement policies: the eleucid Far East, Ptolemaic Red Sea Basin and Egypt. In: Fischer-Bovet, C. and Von Reden, S. , (eds.) Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires: Integration, Communication, and Resistance. Cambridge University Press , Cambridge. pp. 48-85. ISBN: 9781108479257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108782890.004
- Mairs, R. (2021) Quintus. In: Meier, S. , Lorente, B. , Muth, S. , Duchêne, A. , (eds.) Figures of Interpretation. Multilingual Matters pp. 127-139. ISBN: 9781788929387
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 (2020) Introduction. In: Mairs, R. , (eds.) The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World. Taylor & Francis pp. 1-7. ISBN: 9781315108513 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315108513-1
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Mairs, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-9192-9031 (2020) Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition. In: Mairs, R. , (eds.) The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World. Taylor & Francis pp. 419-429. ISBN: 9781315108513 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315108513-21
- Mairs, R. , eds. (2020) The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek Worlds. Routledge Worlds Routledge , Abingdon, UK. ISBN: 9781138090699 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315108513
- Mairs, R. (2020) Iran and central Asia in the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods. In: Hollander, D. and Howe, T. , (eds.) A Companion to Ancient Agriculture. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World Wiley-Blackwell pp. 565-574. ISBN: 9781118970928
- Mairs, R. (2020) Interpretes, Negotiatores and the Roman Army: mobile professionals and their languages. In: Clackson, J. , James, P. , McDonald, K. , Tagliapietra, L. , Zair, N. , (eds.) Migration, Mobility, and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge University Press pp. 203-229. ISBN: 9781108763943 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108763943.009
- Mairs, R. (2020) Beyond Rosetta: multilingual inscriptions, the antiquities trade and the decipherment of Egyptian scripts. In: Bowman, A. and Crowther, C. , (eds.) The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt: Greek and Bilingual Inscriptions. Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK. pp. 20-34. ISBN: 9780198858225
- Mairs, R. (2020) Hermēneis in the documentary record from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt: interpreters, translators and mediators in a bilingual society. Journal of Ancient History , 8 (1). pp. 50-102. ISSN: 2324-8114 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jah-2019-0001
- Mairs, R. and Muratov, M. (2019) Subverting the “master”–“native” relationship: dragomans and their clients in the fin-de-siècle Middle East. In: Svetlana, G. , Philippe, B. , Michel, F. , Claude, R. , (eds.) ‘Masters’ and ‘Natives’: Digging the Others’ Past. Worlds of South and Inner Asia De Gruyter (8). pp. 105-118. ISBN: 9783110599466 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110599466
- Mairs, R. and Smith, R. , eds. (2019) Bi/Multilingualism and the history of language learning and teaching. Language & History , 62. Routledge (2). , Abingdon, UK. | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2019.1641932
- Mairs, R. (2019) Heliodotos and Heliodoros: identity and ambiguity in two inscriptions from the Hellenistic Far East. In: Hertel, T. and Larsen, M. , (eds.) Cultural Encounters in Near Eastern History. Museum Tusculanum Press , Copenhagen. ISBN: 9788763543873
- Mairs, R. (2018) Language, identity and migrant communities: Cyrenaeans in Hellenistic Egypt. In: Yoo, J. , Zerbini, A. , Barron, C. , (eds.) Migration and Migrant Identities in the Near East from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Routledge pp. 26-40. ISBN: 9781472450661
- Mairs, R. (2018) Aigyptia grammata: linguistic and medical training in Graeco-Roman Egypt. In: Reggiani, N. and Bertonazzi, F. , (eds.) Parlare la medicina: fra lingue e culture, nello spazio e nel tempo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Università di Parma, 5-7 Settembre 2016). Mondadori , Milan. pp. 3-11. ISBN: 9788800748476
- Mairs, R. (2018) The politics of classical translation. In: Fernández, F. and Evans, J. , (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics. Routledge handbooks in translation and interpreting studies Routledge , London. pp. 401-409. ISBN: 9781138657564
- Mairs, R. (2018) The men who would be Alexander: Alexander the Great and his Graeco-Bactrian successors in the Raj. In: Moore, K. , (eds.) Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great. Brill's companions to classical reception , 14. Brill (14). , Leiden. pp. 545-563. ISBN: 9789004285071
- Mairs, R. (2017) κατὰ τὸ δυνατόν: Demotic-Greek translation in the archive of the Theban Choachytes. In: Cromwell, J. and Grossman, E. , (eds.) Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period. Oxford studies in ancient documents Oxford University Press , Oxford. ISBN: 9780198768104
- Friedman, H. , Vorderstrasse, T. , Mairs, R. , Adams, R. (2017) Fragments of an Early Islamic Arabic Papyrus from Khirbat Hamra Ifdan. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy , 28 (2). pp. 285-296. ISSN: 1600-0471 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aae.12099
- Mairs, R. (2017) ‘Proclaiming it to Greeks and Natives, along the rows of the chequer-board': readers and viewers of Greek, Latin and Demotic Acrostich inscriptions. Classical Quarterly , 67 (1). pp. 228-246. ISSN: 0009-8388 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838817000179
- Mairs, R. (2016) ‘A dragoman for travellers’: popular Arabic instruction books and their authors in late nineteenth-century Egypt. In: McLelland, N. and Smith, R. , (eds.) The History of Language Learning and Teaching: Across Cultures. Legenda (3). pp. 115-132. ISBN: 9781781887004
- Mairs, R. (2016) The Philae obelisk and the decipherment of hieroglyphs. In: Masséglia, J. , (eds.) The Philae Obelisk: Tales from Egypt, Dorset and Outer Space. Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents , Oxford. pp. 25-28. ISBN: 9780957635623
- Mairs, R. (2016) Lapis Lazuli, Homer and the Buddha: material and ideological exchange in West Asia (c. 250 BCE-200 CE). In: Hodos, T. , Guerds, A. , Lane, P. , Lilley, I. , Pitts, M. , Shelach, G. , Stark, M. , Versluys, M. , (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization. Routledge , London. pp. 885-898. ISBN: 9780415841306 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315449005.ch59
- Mairs, R. (2016) New discoveries of documentary texts from Bactria: political and cultural change, administrative continuity. Warsaw University
- Mairs, R. (2016) From Khartoum to Jerusalem: the dragoman Solomon Negima and his clients (1885-1933). Bloomsbury , London. ISBN: 9781474255028
- Mairs, R. (2016) Bactrian or Graeco-Bactrian kingdom. In: MacKenzie, J. , (eds.) Encyclopedia of Empire. Wiley-Blackwell , London. ISBN: 9781118440643
- Mairs, R. (2015) Ancient Egypt. In: Pochhacker, F. , (eds.) The Routledge encyclopedia of interpreting studies. Routledge , London. ISBN: 9780415634328
- Mairs, R. (2015) Rome. In: Pochhacker, F. , (eds.) The Routledge Encyclopedia of Interpreting Studies. Routledge , London. ISBN: 9780415634328
- Mairs, R. and Muratov, M. (2015) Archaeologists, tourists, interpreters: exploring Egypt and the Near East in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Bloomsbury , London. pp 160. ISBN: 9781472588791
- Mairs, R. (2015) Bactria and India. In: Eidinow, E. and Kindt, J. , (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Greek Religion. Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp. 637-649. ISBN: 9780199642038
- Mairs, R. (2015) Heroes and philosophers? Greek personal names and their bearers in Hellenistic Bactria. In: Walter, M. and Ito-Adler, J. , (eds.) The Silk Road: Interwoven History. Volume 1: Long-Distance Trade, Culture, and Society. Cambridge Institutes Press , Cambridge.
- Mairs, R. (2014) Achaemenid Ai Khanoum. Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan , 46 ISSN: 1434-2758
- Mairs, R. (2014) The reception of T. S. Bayer’s 'Historia Regni Graecorum Bactriani' (1738). Anabasis: Studia Classica et Orientalia , 4 pp. 255-262.
- Mairs, R. (2014) The Hellenistic Far East: archaeology, language and identity in Greek Central Asia. University of California Press , Berkeley. pp 256. ISBN: 9780520281271
- Mairs, R. (2014) The Founder Shrine and the 'Foundation' of Ai Khanoum. In: Mac Sweeney, N. , (eds.) Foundation Myths in Dialogue: Discourses about Origins in Ancient Societies. University of Pennsylvania Press , Philadelphia. pp. 103-128. ISBN: 9780812246421
- Mairs, R. (2014) Models, moulds and mass production: the mechanics of stylistic influence form the Mediterranean to Bactria. Ancient West & East , 13 pp. 175-195. ISSN: 1783-8398 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.2143/AWE.13.0.3038737
- Mairs, R. (2013) Waiting for the Barbarians: the 'fall' of Greek Bactria. Parthica , 15 pp. 9-30. ISSN: 1724-1928 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1400/220813
- Mairs, R. (2013) The Hellenistic far east: from the Oikoumene to the community. In: Stavrianopoulou, E. , (eds.) Shifting Social Imaginaries in the Hellenistic Period: Narratives, Practices, and Images. Mnemosyne Supplements 363 Brill , Leiden. pp. 365-385. ISBN: 9789004257986
- Mairs, R. (2013) Greek settler communities in Central and South Asia 323 bce - 10 ce. In: Daswani, G. and Quayson, A. , (eds.) A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism. John Wiley & Sons , Oxford. pp. 443-454. ISBN: 9781405188265
- Mairs, R. (2013) Intersecting identities in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. In: Dann, R. and Exell, K. , (eds.) Egypt: Ancient Histories, Modern Archaeologies. Cambria Press , New York. pp. 163-192. ISBN: 9781604978490
- Mairs, R. (2012) The 'temple with indented niches' at Ai Khanoum: ethnic and civic identity in Hellenistic Bactria. In: Alston, R. , van Nijf, O. , Williamson, C. , (eds.) Cults, creeds and identities in the Greek city after the Classical age. Groningen-Royal Holloway studies on the Greek city after the classical age Peeters (3). , Leuven. pp. 85-111. ISBN: 9789042927148
- Mairs, R. (2012) Sopha Grammata: Greek Acrostichs in inscriptions from Arachosia, Lower Nubia and Libya. In: Kwapisz, J. , Petrain, D. , Szymanski, M. , (eds.) The Muse at Play: Riddles and Wordplay in Greek and Latin Poetry. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Walter de Gruyter & Co (305). , Berlin. pp. 277-304. ISBN: 9783110270617
- Mairs, R. (2012) Glassware from Roman Egypt at Begram (Afghanistan) and the Red Sea Trade. British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan , 18 pp. 61-74. ISSN: 2049-5021
- Mairs, R. (2012) Interpreters and translators in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. In: Schubert, P. , (eds.) Actes du 26e Congrès international de papyrologie Genève 16-21 août 2010. Recherches et Rencontres , 30. Droz , Geneva. pp. 457-462. ISBN: 9782600016124
- Mairs, R. (2012) Interpreting at Vindolanda: commercial and linguistic mediation in the Roman army.. Britannia , 43 pp. 17-28. ISSN: 1753-5352 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0068113X12000219
- Mairs, R. (2012) Bilingual 'tagging' of financial accounts in Demotic and Greek. Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde , 139 (1). pp. 37-44. ISSN: 0044-216X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1524/zaes.2012.0005
- Mairs, R. (2012) Agathokles (Ptolemaic minster). In: Bagnall, R. , Brodersen, K. , Champion, C. , Erskine, A. , Huebner, S. , (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell , Malden, MA; Oxford. pp. 168-169. ISBN: 9781405179355 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386
- Mairs, R. (2012) Hellenization. In: Bagnall, R. , Brodersen, K. , Champion, C. , Erskine, A. , Huebner, S. , (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell , Malden MA, Oxford. pp. 3122-3125. ISBN: 9781405179355 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386
- Mairs, R. (2012) Asoka. In: Bagnall, R. , Brodersen, K. , Champion, C. , Erskine, A. , Huebner, S. , (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell ISBN: 9781405179355 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386
- Mairs, R. (2012) Euthydemoss of Bactria. In: Bagnall, R. , Brodersen, K. , Champion, C. , Erskine, A. , Huebner, S. , (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell , Malden, MA; Oxford. pp. 2583-2584. ISBN: 9781405179355 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah09111
- Mairs, R. (2012) Bilingualism. In: Bagnall, R. , Brodersen, K. , Champion, C. , Erskine, A. , Huebner, S. , (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell , Malden, MA; Oxford. pp. 1115-1117. ISBN: 9781405179355 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386
- Mairs, R. (2011) Hellenistic Far East bibliography. Rachel Mairs
- Mairs, R. (2011) The Places in Between: Model and Metaphor in the Archaeology of Hellenistic Arachosia. In: Kouremenos, A. , Chandrasekaran, S. , Rossi, R. , (eds.) From Pella to Gandhara: Hybridisation and Identity in the Art and Architecture of the Hellenistic East. BAR International Series 2221 BAR , Oxford. pp. 177-189.
- Mairs, R. (2011) The archaeology of the Hellenistic Far East: a survey. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, c. 300 BC – AD 100. Bactria, Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, C 300BC- AD 100. British Archaeological Reports International Series Archaeopress (2196 ). , Oxford. ISBN: 9781407307527
- Mairs, R. (2011) Acrostich inscriptions at Kalabsha (Roman Talmis): cultural identities and literary games . Chronique d'Égypte , 86 (171-172). pp. 281-297. ISSN: 0009-6067 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.CDE.1.102493
- Mairs, R. (2011) Translator, traditor: The interpreter as traitor in classical tradition. Greece and Rome , 58 pp. 64-81. ISSN: 0017-3835 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0017383510000537
- Mairs, R. (2011) The places in between: model and metaphor in the archaeology of Hellenistic Arachosia . In: Kouremenos, A. , Chandrasekaran, S. , Rossi, R. , (eds.) From Pella to Gandhara: Hybridisation and Identity in Art and Architecture of the Hellenistic East . BAR International Series Archaeopress (2221). , Oxford. pp. 177-189. ISBN: 9781407307794
- Mairs, R. (2010) "An “Identity Crisis”? Identity and its Discontents in Hellenistic Studies" In Jennifer E. Gates-Foster, Beyond Identity in the Hellenistic East. In: Dalla Riva, M. , (eds.) Meetings between Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Rome 22-26 sept. 2008. Available at: Bolletino di Archeologia Online , Rome.
- Mairs, R. (2010) An identity crisis? Identity and its discontents in Hellenistic studies . In: Dalla Riva, M. , (eds.) Meetings between Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Rome 22-26 Sept 2008. Congress of Classical Archaeology
- Mairs, R. (2010) Ulster on the Nile: Irish analogies in the classical scholarship of J.P. Mahaffy (1839-1919). Classics Ireland , 17 pp. 51-70. ISSN: 0791-9417
- Mairs, R. (2010) Egyptian ‘inscriptions’ and Greek ‘graffiti’ at El Kanais in the Egyptian Eastern Desert. In: Baird, J. and Taylor, C. , (eds.) Ancient Graffiti in Context. Routledge studies in ancient history Routledge , London. pp. 153-164. ISBN: 9780415878890
- Mairs, R. (2010) An Early Roman Application for Lease of a Date Crop (P. Duk. inv. 85) and the "Six-Choinix Measure of the Hermeneus. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik , 172 pp. 183-191. ISSN: 0084-5388
- Mairs, R. (2010) A bilingual account from the Aswan quarries (O.Brookl.Dem. 180 / P.Brookl. 81). In: Gagos, T. , (eds.) Proceedings of the Twenty Fifth International Congress of Papyrology, Ann Arbor 2007, American Studies in Papyrology . Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library , Ann Arbor. pp. 463-470. ISBN: 9781607852056
- Mairs, R. (2009) The Greek Grid-Plan at Sirkap (Taxila)and the question of Greek influence in the North West.. In: Willis, M. , (eds.) Migration, Trade and Peoples: European Association of South Asian Archaeologists, Proceedings of the 18th Congress, London, 2005. The British Association of South Asian Studies, The British Academy , London. pp. 135-147. ISBN: 9780955392450
- Mairs, R. and Martin, C. (2008) A Bilingual 'Sale' of Liturgies from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes: P. Berlin 5507, P. Berlin 3098 and P. Leiden 413. Enchoria, Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie , 31 pp. 22-67.
- Mairs, R. and Martin, C. (2008) A bilingual sale of liturgies from the archive of the Theban Choachytes. Enchoria: Zeitschrift fur Demotistik und Koptologie , 31 pp. 22-67.
- Mairs, R. (2008) Greek identity and the settler community in Hellenistic Bactria and Arachosia. Migrations and Identities , 1 pp. 19-43.
- Mairs, R. and Stevenson, A. , eds. (2007) Current Research in Egyptology VI: Proceedings of the sixth annual symposium which took place at the University of Cambridge, 6-8 January 2005. Oxbow , Oxford.
- Mairs, R. (2007) Egyptian Artefacts from Central and South Asia. In: Mairs, R. and Stevenson, A. , (eds.) Current Research in Egyptology VI: Proceedings of the sixth annual symposium which took place at the University of Cambridge, 6-8 January 2005. Oxbow , Oxford. pp. 74-89.
- Mairs, R. (2007) Ethnicity and Funerary Practice in Hellenistic Bactria. In: Schroeder, H. , Bray, P. , Gardner, P. , Jefferson, V. , Macaulay-Lewis, E. , (eds.) Crossing Frontiers: The opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary approaches to archaeology. Oxford University School of Archaeology Monographs 63 School of Archaeology , Oxford. pp. 111-124.
- Mairs, R. (2006) Hellenistic India. New Voices in Classical Reception , 1 pp. 19-30.
- Mairs, R. (2006) O.Col. inv. 1366: A Coptic Prayer from Deir el-Bahri with a Quotation from Tobit 12:10. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists , 43 pp. 63-70.