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Professor Mark Humphries

Professor Mark Humphries

Professor, Classics

Telephone number

+44 (0) 1792 602786
Office - 212
Second Floor
James Callaghan
Singleton Campus
Available For Postgraduate Supervision

About

Mark Humphries is a specialist in the history of Late Antiquity, the period stretching from the third century to the seventh that saw dramatic transformations of the ancient world. These included the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West and the emergence of new states and societies, and the disappearance of the ancient religions known as ‘paganism’ and the emergence of the new faiths of Christianity and Islam. He studies these transformations in a way that emphasises connections and interactions between the Mediterranean world of the Roman Empire and neighbouring regions of Eurasia and Africa. He publishes widely on all aspects of the history and culture of the period. He is an editor of the acclaimed Liverpool University Press series Translated Texts for Historians, which produces volumes of sources for the period 300-800, and he is the area editor for Late Antiquity and Byzantium for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History. He has been Professor of Ancient History at Swansea University since 2007, having previously held positions at Maynooth, Manchester, St Andrews, and Leicester.

Areas Of Expertise

  • Late Antiquity
  • Early Christianity
  • Imperial ideology in late antiquity
  • World history of late antiquity and the early middle ages
  • City of Rome between paganism and Christianity

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

At undergraduate level, Mark Humphries contributes to a wide range of modules on the ancient world, as well as teaching research-led modules on the transformation of the Roman world and the rise of Christianity. At postgraduate level he offers specialist teaching on late-antique and early Christian culture.

Research