She studied the history of contemporary art at Sapienza University in Rome. Visual Art Residency and Programme Curator: Marta Pellerini, MA Geophysics Researcher: Elena PomarĮlena joined the archaeology department in 2018 after completing her Masters at the University of Siena, during which time she had a three-month internship at the BSR.
He has recently undertaken excavations at Segni (together with the Museo Comunale) and Cittareale (Lazio), now both being prepared for full publication. He currently co-directs the BSR’s 3-year research project at Pompeii, Porta Nola Necropolis. He has managed surveys and projects throughout Italy and the Mediterranean and has built up a wide experience of landscape archaeology. He graduated in Archaeology at the University of Durham and then specialised in Archaeological Computing at the University of Southampton. In 2015 he took on the role as the BSR Archaeology Officer, responsible for the daily running of the department and fieldwork projects. Stephen worked as a geophysical researcher before being awarded the Molly Cotton Fellowship in 2012. He is the author of Porta Maggiore: Monument and Landscape (2004)and Immagini e memoria: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey (2009), and is a Socio Corrispondente of the Pontificia Accademia Romana di Archeologia. In addition to the topography, history, art and archaeology of the city of Rome, his research centres on the Antique in the Early Middle Ages. He directs the undergraduate Ancient Rome Summer School and postgraduate City of Rome courses. He first came to the BSR as Rome Scholar in 1995-6 and has been Cary Fellow since 2002. in archaeology at University College London (1988-95). Cary Fellow: Robert Coates-Stephens, BA PhD
He has won numerous international grants and fellowships, including from the Australian Academy of the Humanities and British School at Athens, the Early-Career Award from the Australasian Society for Classical Studies, and has previously worked at Delos, the Athenian Agora and Acropolis, Pompeii, Falerii Novi and in Turkey. He is also Research Affiliate at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens and the Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment (Macquarie) and currently directs two survey projects across the Italian regions of Sezze, Fondi, and Monte Massico and the Cycladic islands in Greece. He since published his first monograph, Roman and Late Antique wine production in the eastern Mediterranean (Archaeopress, 2020), along with a range of articles exploring research interests in the wine and oil production of antiquity, including associated technologies, knowledges, and economic patterns.
Assistant Director for Archaeology: Emlyn Dodd, BAncHist PhDĮmlyn completed his PhD at Macquarie University in 2018. She is an Honorary Research Associate of the School of Modern Languages at Royal Holloway, University of London. Harriet has published articles on frames and framing in the literal and the abstract, and will focus her research on Roman palace frames and hybrid objects while at the BSR. She has held curatorial positions at the National Gallery and Royal Holloway, and previously worked as specialist in frames and nineteenth- and twentieth-century art at Christie’s and Bonhams auctioneers. For her PhD entitled ‘Reframing the Italian Renaissance at the National Gallery’ she was based at UCL and the National Gallery, London. Harriet undertook her BA in Modern History at the University of Oxford and holds MAs in History of Art (UCL) and Art Museum and Gallery Studies (Newcastle).
Assistant Director for Fine Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: Harriet O’Neill, MA PhD She has also run projects in historic libraries in English country houses on books connected with the Grand Tour, in collaboration with the National Trust and English Heritage. Her research interests include Italian literature and literary history from the beginning of the age of print, with particular concern for marginalised voices including those of women and religious minorities. She is Professor of Italian and a fellow of St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge, where she was previously Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Professor Abigail Brundin took up her role as Director of the BSR in September 2021. Staff Director: Abigail Brundin, MA MPhil PhD Click on the name of the member of staff to send them an email.