Professor Peter Stewart

Doctoral supervision

I am happy to supervise on Graeco-Roman art, including topics on Roman sculpture, Roman provincial art, antiquities collecting, and connections between Rome and the wider world of ancient art (e.g. Gandhara, India, and Central Asia).

Current students

Hisarlik, Site of Troy
Susan Chai | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Nomadic Empires and the Nomadic Buddha: The influence of Kushan royal portraits in Central and East Asia, 100-800 CE
Yicong Li | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Elephant Evolutions: Knowledge Production between Egypt and Sudan 300BC - AD400
Tim Moller | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
A Spatial Analysis of the Built Environment Surrounding Mosaics in Imperial Period Greece and Asia Minor
Nikki Vellidis | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Intersecting Constructions of Race and Gender Identities of Black Africans in Hellenistic and Early Imperial Art
Eleanor Newman | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Victorian Collections of Classical Antiquities
Roswyn Wiltshire | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
The Social Life of Late Antique Sarcophagi: Location, Audience, and Meaning
Alexis Gorby | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisors: Bert Smith and Peter Stewart

Past students

Figural sculpture in Roman Britain and its Continental relationships
Penny Coombe (2021) ORA | DPhil Classical Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart
Carmen Heroum: Greek Epic in Roman Friezes
Alison Pollard (2017) ORA | DPhil Archaeology | Supervisor: Peter Stewart

Key words: archives, biography, digital archaeology, museums, silk road, art, sculpture, painting, global ancient art, collecting, Classical-Roman, Classical-Greek, post-medieval, Early Modern, Europe, Central Asia, S Asia, W Asia, Mediterranean