Camden Professorship of Ancient History

The Faculty of Classics and Brasenose College intend to appoint to the Camden
Professorship of Ancient History with effect from 1st October 2024 or as soon
as possible thereafter. The Camden Chair is one of the most prominent
professorships in the English-speaking world for research and teaching in the
field of Roman history, and the Faculty welcomes applications from those with
expertise in this broadly defined area.





The Faculty takes an inclusive view of the concept of ‘Roman history’, and
although all applicants will be expected to engage with the politics, society
and culture of Republican and Imperial Rome between the third century BCE and
the fourth century CE, and to be ready to supervise doctoral projects across
this field, applications are welcomed from those whose research ranges beyond
this, within what the discipline currently understands as the ancient world.





You will exercise academic leadership through your own research and teaching,
by seeking research grants, by promoting a culture of obtaining research
funding amongst colleagues and graduate students, and by building
relationships with potential donors to Oxford Classics. You will have broad
interests and sympathies in order that you may contribute to and promote what
is a wide and increasingly interdisciplinary research field in Oxford, and to
help lead the Faculty’s drive towards a more diverse and inclusive culture. An
important part of the role will be the co-leadership, with the Wykeham
Professor of Ancient (Greek) History, of the Postgraduate Taught Programme in
Greek and/or Roman History.





You should have a distinguished international profile in research and
publication in any aspect of ancient Roman history (as defined above), an
excellent record of teaching and graduate supervision, the ability and
willingness to foster community and provide academic leadership in the field
of ancient Roman history within the Faculty, and the intellectual vision to
develop the study of Roman History in the UK and to maintain interest and
public engagement in the subject in Oxford and beyond.





If you would like to discuss this post, please contact Professor Llewelyn
Morgan on llewelyn.morgan@bnc.ox.ac.uk. All enquiries will be treated in
strict confidence and will not form part of the selection decision.





The closing date for applications is **12:00 UK time on Monday 30 October
2023**. Applications are to be made online. Interviews are expected to be held
in January 2024.