Brasenose College, Oxford - Professor Alan K Bowman (Principal)
Professor Alan K Bowman (Principal)
Name and title
Professor Alan K Bowman FBA FSA
Brasenose Status
Principal
Role or Position
Formerly Camden Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents
Subject
Roman History
Qualifications
MA Oxon., Ph.D Toronto
Academic Background
Manchester Grammar School (1955-1962)
BA (Literae Humaniores), The Queen's College,Oxford (1962-6)
MA and PhD, University of Toronto (1966-9)
Assistant Professor of Classics, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, USA (1970-72)
Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester (1972-7)
Official Student (Tutorial Fellow) in Ancient History, Christ Church, Oxford (1977-2002)
Camden Professor of Ancient History and Fellow of Brasenose College (2002 - 2010)
Undergraduate Teaching
University lectures on the history of the Roman Empire
Research Interests
Social and economic history of the Roman Empire, Documentary Papyrology, History of Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, The Roman Economy, The Vindolanda Writing-tablets, Application of Information technology to the Study of Ancient Documents
Publications include
Cambridge Ancient History vol.XI, second edition (2000), joint editor with P.D.A.Garnsey and D.W.Rathbone
Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times (OUP for the British Academy, 1999), ed. with E.Rogan
Life and Letters on the Roman Frontier: Vindolanda and its People (British Museum Press, 1994; second edition, 1998, revised edition 2003)
The Vindolanda Writing-tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses III), with J.D.Thomas (British Museum Press, 2003)
Artefacts and Images of the Ancient World ed. with J.M.Brady (The British Academy, 2005)
Cambridge Ancient History vol.XII, new edition, joint editor with A.M.Cameron, P.D.A.Garnsey, 2005.
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