Staff

Professor John North (Acting Director)



John North, Emeritus Professor of History and former Head of the History Department
at University College London, has assumed the Directorship of the Institute in an acting capacity from 1 January 2012.

Professor North read Greats at the Queen’s College, Oxford and completed his doctorate on the relation of politics and religion in republican Rome. He taught for 40 years at University College London and was Head of the History Department from 1992 until 1997 and from 2000 until 2002. In 2003 he was made an Honorary Fellow of UCL and was elected Emeritus Professor of History.

His research interests lie in the religious history of Rome, in particular in the place of ritual activity in traditional pagan life, in the development of pagan religion in contact with alternative religions from the 2nd century BC onwards, and, more recently, in the religious activities of Roman slaves. He is joint director of the AHRC-funded Festus Lexicon Project, which aims to produce a new text, translation and commentary on the preserved parts of Festus and on the résumé of Paul the Deacon. For further details see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history2/research/festus/index.htm

His recent work includes: The Religious History of the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews and Christians (edited, with S.R.F. Price) Oxford (2011); ‘Pursuing Democracy’ in Rome and the Mediterranean World, eds.  Alan Bowman et al. British Academy (2002);  ‘Caesar at the Lupercalia’, in Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008), 144-60; ‘Ancient History, past and present’, in A. Erskine (ed.)  Blackwell’s Companion to Ancient History. Malden MA and Oxford (2009), 89-98; ‘Pagan Ritual and Monotheism’, in S. Mitchell and P. van Nuffelen (eds.), One God: Pagan Monotheism in the Roman Empire. Cambridge and New York (2010); ‘Lex Domitia revisited’, in J.H. Richardson and F Santangelo (eds). Priests and State in the Roman World. Stuttgart (2011), 39-62.

Tel: 020 7862 8702
Email: john.north@sas.ac.uk

Dr Olga Krzyszkowska (Deputy Director)

Olga Krzyszkowska has been associated with the Institute for many years. Her main research is in the field of Aegean Archaeology, with special emphasis on Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece. She is an established expert on
Aegean ivory carving; more recent research has focused
on Aegean seals and sealing practices. Her publications
include numerous articles, conference papers and contribu-
tions to excavation reports, as well as Minoan Society: Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium (1983: ed. with
L. Nixon); Ivory and Related Materials: An Illustrated Guide.
BICS Suppl. 59 (1990); and Aegean Seals: An Introduction.
BICS Suppl. 85 (2005). Click here for ICS Publications.

For the past 15 years Olga Krzyszkowska has been co-organizer of the Institute’s Mycenaean Seminar (with Cyprian Broodbank and more recently John Bennet). Since 2002 she has been working on two inter-related archives held by the Institute: the Michael Ventris Papers and the Mycenaean Seminar Archive. The latter contains many unpublished documents relating to the early years of the ‘Minoan Linear B Seminar’, which was established by the Institute in January 1954 to foster research into the newly-deciphered script. Nearly sixty
years on, the Mycenaean Seminar now encompasses almost every aspect of Aegean Prehistory and summaries of all papers appear annually in BICS. The Ventris Papers comprise photographs, personal letters, architectural sketches and drawings, drafts for talks and lectures, radio scripts, obituaries and newspaper cuttings. Ultimately, it is hoped that a full catalogue of the Ventris Papers will be available on-line, and that this resource – together with the related Mycenaean Seminar Archive – will serve as a valuable research tool for the future.

Olga Krzyszkowska has been General Editor of British School at Athens Supplementary Volumes and Studies since 2004 and is a regular guest lecturer on tours to Crete..

Other interests (time permitting) include art, architecture, and country walks.

Tel. 020 7862 8700
Email: admin.icls@sas.ac.uk
olgak@sas.ac.uk


Richard Simpson (Director of Publications)

Tel: 0.20 7862 8703
Email: Richard.Simpson@sas.ac.uk

Sarah Mayhew (Publications and Events Assistant)

Tel: 020 7862 8705
Email: icls.publications@sas.ac.uk

 

Institute of Classical Studies Library
Joint Library of the Hellenic and Roman Societies

Staff

Colin H Annis MA, Dip.Lib. MCLIP, ALA
Librarian

Paul L Jackson MA, Dip.Lib. MCLIP, ALA
Deputy Librarian

Sue Willetts BA, MSc, MA, Dip.Lib MCLIP
Senior Library Assistant

My first degree was at Sheffield University in Ancient History / Classical Civilisation. I have been working at the ICS Library since 1990, based in the Library Office. I attend meetings to represent the Library on the London Palaeography Co-operative Acquisition Group and have particular responsibility for computer resources for Classics. I have recently completed an MA in Classical Studies with the Open University and my interests include attending modern productions of ancient drama.

During the summer of 2001, I was fortunate to be able to experience a job exchange with Mike Braunlin of University of Cincinnati in The John Miller Burnham Classics Library and to work with Jean Wellington, author of the invaluable Dictionary of bibliographic abbreviations found in the scholarship of classical studies and related disciplines.
e-mail: sue.willetts@sas.ac.uk

Christopher Ashill BA, MLib, MCLIP

Hannah Dingwall BA
Sconul Trainee 2011-12 (For details of this post, see Winnington-Ingram Trainee Post)

(page last updated 23 January 2012)