Curriculum Vitae
Colin Edward Patrick Adams
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History
School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
University of Liverpool
12 Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7WZ
Tel. 0151 7942439
Email: colin.adams@liverpool.ac.uk
Date of birth: 17.3.1967
Nationality: British
Education
1996
DPhil. in Ancient History, Christ Church, Oxford, supervised by Prof.
A.K. Bowman.
‘Aspects of Transportation in Roman Egypt 30 BC - AD 300’.
Examiners: Prof. P.J. Parsons (Oxford) and Prof. D.W. Rathbone
(KCL).
1991
The Queen’s University, Belfast.
BA Honours in Ancient History.
Mary Gardiner Prize and Scholarship.
Professional Qualifications
2000
Warwick Certificate in Post-Compulsory Education
Employment History
2007
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Liverpool
2005-
Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Liverpool.
2000-2005
Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Leicester.
1998-2001
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
University of Warwick and University of Leicester.
1996-1998
Teaching and Research Fellow in Ancient History,
University of St Andrews.
1994-1995
Assistant Lecturer in Ancient History, Queen’s University Belfast.
Teaching Responsibilities
Undergraduate
CLAH 104 Introduction to Greek History
CLAH 105 Introduction to Roman History (module co-ordinator)
CLAH 255 Roman Egypt (module co-ordinator)
CLAH 362 The World of Pliny the Younger (module co-ordinator)
Postgraduate
MA Ancient History
CLAH 801 Research in Ancient History I: Approaches and Sources
CLAH 802 Research in Ancient History II: Research Skills and Dissertation
Preparation
CLAH 796 Princeps and Senate: the Julio-Claudians
CLAH 795 Transitions of Empire: Diocletian and the Roman Recovery
CLAH 797 The Economy of the Roman Empire
CLAH 822 Bureaucracy and Oppression: Roman Egypt
CLAH 823 Life, Law, Government and Euergetism: the World of Pliny the Younger
Research Students
Supervisor of 2 PhD theses: Image and Ideology of the Flavians; Roman Pharaohs:
Image and Ideology
Publications
Books
(2001) ed. with R. Laurence, Travel and Geography in the Roman Empire. London:
Routledge.
(2007) Land Transport in Roman Egypt 30 BC – AD 300: A Study of Economics and
Administration in a Roman Province. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(April 2007) ed. with J. Roy, Travel, Culture and Geography in Ancient Greece,
Egypt, and the Near East. Leicester-Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society 10.
Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Peer reviewed chapters in books
(1999) ‘Supplying the Roman Army: Bureaucracy in Roman Egypt’, Journal of
Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 34: 119-126.
(2000) ‘Who bore the burden? The organisation of stone transport in Roman Egypt’,
in D. Mattingly and J. Salmon (eds.) Economies Beyond Agriculture in the Classical
World. London and New York: Routledge, 171-92.
(2001) ‘There and Back Again: Getting around in Roman Egypt’, in Adams and
Laurence, Travel and Geography, 138-66.
(2004) ‘Transition and Change in Diocletian's Egypt: Province and Empire in the Late
Third Century’, in S. Swain and M. Edwards (eds.) Approaching Late Antiquity: the
Transformation from Early to Late Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 82-108.
(March 2007) ‘War and Society in the Roman Republic and Principate’, in P. Sabin,
H. Van Wees and M. Whitby (eds.) Cambridge History of Ancient Warfare.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 17,000 words.
(March 2007) ‘Travel Narrows the Mind’: Cultural Tourism in Graeco-Roman
Egypt’, in C. E. P. Adams and J. Roy (eds.), Realities and Representations of Travel
in Ancient Greece and the Near East. London and New York: Routledge. 8,000
words.
(in press) ‘Travel and the Perception of Space in the Eastern Desert of Egypt’, in H.
Galsterer and M. Rathmann (eds.) Raumwahrnehmung und Raumerfassung in der
Antike. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt. 8,000 words
(in press) ‘Irregular Levies and the Impact of the Roman Army in Egypt’, in L. de
Blois and E. Lo Cascio (eds.) The Impact of the Roman Army (200 BC-AD 476):
Economic, Social, Political, Religious and Cultural Aspects. International Network
‘Impact of Empire’. Amsterdam: Gieben. 7,000 words
Peer reviewed articles
(1995) ‘Supplying the Roman Army: O. Petr. 245’, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und
Epigraphik 109: 119-124.
(1996) ‘Hibernia Romana: Ireland and the Roman Empire’, in History Ireland 4:1924.
(1999) ‘Two customs-house receipts from the Bodleian’, with Dr. N. Gonis,
Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 126: 213-218.
(2001) ‘Feeding the Wolf: Logistics and the Roman Army’, Journal of Roman
Archaeology 14: 465-72. Review article.
Reviews
Alston, R. (1995), Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt. London and New York:
Routledge, in Journal of Roman Studies 86 (1996) 222.
Katzoff, R., Y. Petroff and D. Schaps (eds) (1996), Classical Studies in Honor of
David Sohlberg, in The Classical Review XLIX 1 (1999) 237-239.
Salomons, R.P. (1996), Papyri Bodleianae I, in The Classical Review 49 (1999) 315316.
Sidebotham, S. and W. Wendrich, (1995 and 1996), Berenike 1994 and Berenike
1995, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 119 (1999) 218-9.
Grainger, J.D. (1998) A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer. Leiden, New York,
Cologne: Brill, in The Classical Review 50 (2000) 342-3.
Grimm, G. (1998) Alexandria. Die erste Königsstadt der hellenistischen Welt. Mainz
am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, with Lampela, A. (1998) Rome and the Ptolemies of
Egypt. The Development of their Political Relations 273-80 B.C. Finland: Societas
Scientiarum Fennica, 1998, in The Classical Review 50 (2000) 195-7.
Jördens, A. (1998), Griechische Papyri aus Soknopaiu Nesos (P. Louvre I). Bonn:
Rudolf Habelt, in The Classical Review 51 (2001) 186-87.
Bowman, A.K. and E. Rogan (eds) (1999), Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to
Modern Times. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in American Journal of
Archaeology 106.1 (2002) 125-6.
Pollard, N. (2000) Soldiers, Cities, and Civilians in Roman Syria. Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press. JACT Review
Arnold, D. (1999) Temples of the Last Pharaohs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in
The Classical Review 52, 2 (2002) 337-8.
Maxfield, V. and D. Peacock, (2001) The Roman Imperial Quarries. Survey and
Excavation at Mons Porphyrites 1994-1998. Volume 1: Topography and Quarries.
London: Egypt Exploration Society., with Jackson, R.B. (2002) At Empire’s Edge.
Exploring Rome’s Egyptian Frontier. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
Antiquity (2002), in Antiquity 76 (2002) 1147-8.
Young, G.K. (2001) Rome’s Eastern Trade. International Commerce and Imperial
Policy 31 BC – AD 305. London and New York: Routledge, in Journal of Roman
Studies 92 (2002) 234-35.
Kolb, A. (2000) Transport und Nachrichtentransfer im Römischen Reich. Berlin:
Akademie Verlag, in The Classical Review 54, 2 (2004) 491-2.
Alston, R. (2002) The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt. London and New York:
Routledge, in The Classical Review 54, 2 (2004) 512-4.
Scheidel, W. (2001) Death on the Nile. Disease and Demography in Roman Egypt
Leiden: Brill, in The Classical Review 54, 2 (2004) 510-2.
Bingen, J., et al (1997) Mons Claudianus. Ostraca graeca et latina II. DFIFAO 32,
Cairo, and Wagner, G. (2001) Les Ostraca Grecs de Douch. DFIFAO 24/5, Cairo, in
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (forthcoming).
Publications in Progress
Books
Transformation and Change: administration and bureaucracy in the Chester Beatty
Papyri from Panopolis. London: Duckworth (completion 31 January 2008).
Other Research Activities
Grants:
1998-2001 – British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (held at Leicester,
January 2000 – September 2001) – c. £60,000 + overheads
Invited research papers and keynote lectures:
February 2005
invited participant in an international colloquium entitled
‘Raumwahrnehmung und Raumerfassung in der Antike’ at the
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. Paper
entitled: ‘Travel and the perception of space in the Roman
Empire’.
March 2005
invited participant at the sixth Workshop of the international
network Impact of Empire, Capri. Paper entitled: ‘Imperial and
military requisition in Tetrarchic Egypt’.
February 2004
‘Cultural Tourism in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, University of
Warwick.
September 2003
University of Calgary, Canada, Visiting Scholar, giving
keynote lecture, ‘Travel, Pilgrimage, and Cultural Tourism in
Graeco-Roman Egypt’, research seminars, and postgraduate
classes.
January 2001
‘Diocletian’s reforms in Egypt in the light of the Chester Beatty
papyri from Panopolis’, University of Nottingham.
A series of further papers, including:
March 2001
‘Travel and Proskynemata in Graeco-Roman Egypt’, Roman
Archaeology Conference, Glasgow.
April 1999
‘Delivering the goods: private transport and the state in Roman
Egypt’, Roman Archaeology Conference, Durham.
February 1998
‘Papyrological evidence for Stone Transportation in Roman
Egypt’, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford
University.
Academic Distinctions
1998-2001
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Administrative Responsibilities
Programme Director for MA Ancient History
Research Committee
Chair of Classics and Ancient History subject group
Currently involved in the development of two new undergraduate degree programmes,
BA Ancient History (Single Honours) and BA Ancient and Medieval History.
Member of Internal Periodic Review team, with joint responsibility for curricula.
Referees
Professor Alan K. Bowman,
Camden Professor of Ancient History,
Brasenose College,
Oxford,
OX1 4AJ.
(01865) 277874
alan.bowman@brasenose.ox.ac.uk
Professor Graeme Barker,
Disney Professor of Archaeology,
McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research,
Downing Street,
Cambridge,
CB2 3ER.
01223 333538
graeme.barker@mcdonald.cam.ac.uk
Professor Lin Foxhall,
Professor of Greek History and Archaeology,
School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester,
University Road,
Leicester,
LE1 7RH.
(0116) 2522773
lf4@le.ac.uk