Dr Joanne Berry

Research Highlights

1. Berry, J. & Wallace-Hadrill, A. (Eds.). (2020). A Cultural History of the Home: Antiquity. Bloomsbury.

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56169

   https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-cultural-history-of-the-home-9781472584410/
2. Berry, J. (2020). Furniture and furnishings in the ancient home. In Joanne Berry and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Ed.), Cultural History of the Home: Antiquity (pp. 81-102). Bloomsbury

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53044
3. Pollard, N. & Berry, J. (2015). The Complete Roman Legions Thames and Hudson.

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11229

   https://thamesandhudson.com/complete-roman-legions-9780500291832
4. Pollard, N. & Berry, J. (2020). Die Legionen Roms wbg Theiss.

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12688
5. Berry, J. (2016). Boundaries and control in the Roman house. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 29, 125-141.

   SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26872

All Research

• Social performance in the informal economy of the Roman Italian street. (current)

  PhD

  Other supervisor: Dr Ian Goh

• CL-M09 Dissertation in Ancient History and or Classical Literature

  Dissertation in Ancient History or an approved Classical subject.

• CLD300 Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology Dissertation

  Dissertation module for students doing single honours or joint honours degrees in Classics, Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or Egyptology. The aim is for students to do detailed research, to work on a project for several months and to produce a scholarly study of c. 8000-10000 words. The dissertation topic can be chosen freely, in consultation with a member of academic staff and subject to compatibility with a student's degree scheme and availability of supervisors and library material. This is a chance for students to pursue an area in which they are especially interested, and to deal with it in depth. Students may choose to do museum-based research. There are two preparatory pieces of assessment: an abstract, outline and bibliography, and an analysis of crucial source material and/or secondary literature. Work on the dissertation itself takes up most of the two semesters. Students are expected to do research independently, but there is a series of lectures in the first semester to provide advice on research and scholarly writing, Every student will be assigned a supervisor who will be organising group sessions with his/her supervisees and who will also be available for one-to-one supervision sessions.

• CLH150 Rome from Village to Empire: An Introduction to Roman History

  This module introduces key places, peoples, and periods in Roman history. It is intended to provide a chronological and theoretical framework that will form the basis for more specialised study of Roman history at Levels 5 and 6. In addition to introducing key themes about the Roman world, such as imperialism, responses to Roman rule, social and political structures, `othering¿, gender, and religion, it will encourage students¿ critical engagement with a range of primary sources and help to develop their academic writing skills.

• CLH267 Gender in the Roman World

  The Romans believed that the defining roles of men and women were established right from the foundation of Rome. This course examines how these roles were defined in the literature, art, inscriptions and artefacts of the Roman period. We will look at the legal evidence for male-female relationships and roles, `ideal¿ behaviour, attitudes towards sex, the influence of custom and ancestral behaviour, gendered roles in public life, and what happened when men and women didn¿t behave according to societal expectations

• CLH394 Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius

  Pompeii is very different from other archaeological sites in terms of its destruction, excavation and preservation. The fact that most of the archaeological evidence from Pompeii relates to a single moment ¿ AD79 ¿ is both its strength and its weakness. This course aims to introduce students to the wealth of evidence from Pompeii that can be used to examine Roman urban life, but also to make them aware of the problems that affect our knowledge and interpretation of this evidence.