Rebecca Jane Sweetman is an Irish classical scholar. She is Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology and Head of the School of Classics at the
University of St Andrews
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. Sweetman is known in particular for her work on the archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Greece.
From September 2022, she will take up an appointment as Director of the
British School at Athens.
Career
Sweetman studied Archaeology and Classics at
University College Dublin
University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 33,284 student ...
. She spent a year working on excavations and then completed her PhD at the
University of Nottingham
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on the Roman and Early Christian Mosaics of Crete. She was the assistant director of the British School at Athens from 2000 to 2003 and then moved to the
University of St Andrews
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as a lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology in 2003.
She has been Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology since 1 August 2016. She gave her inaugural lecture as professor on 25 September 2019 with a talk entitled 'Resilience in the Wine Dark Sea: the archaeology of Roman Crete and the Cyclades'.
From 2015 to 2016, Sweetman worked on the Christianization of the
Cyclades
The Cyclades (; el, Κυκλάδες, ) are an island group in the Aegean Sea, southeast of mainland Greece and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name ...
in the
late antique
Late antiquity is the time of transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages, generally spanning the 3rd–7th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin. The popularization of this periodization in English has ...
period with her
Carnegie Trust
The Carnegie United Kingdom Trust is an independent, endowed charitable trust based in Scotland that operates throughout Great Britain and Ireland. Originally established with an endowment from Andrew Carnegie in his birthplace of Dunfermline, ...
funded project 'The Late Antique Cyclades: Landscapes, Networks and Christianization'.
In 2015, Sweetman was awarded a
Leverhulme Trust
The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to suppo ...
Major Fellowship for the project ‘The Roman and Late Antique Cyclades: Networks, Economy and Religion’. The project ran from 2016 to 2018 and included the conference 'Landscapes of Movement: Religious space and topography of the Cyclades, 8th century BCE to 8th century CE' at the
University of St Andrews
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(25-26 May 2017).
Between January and February 2019 she swam in the North Sea 28 times in order to raise money for refugees in Athens.
Selected publications
* 'Networks and church building in the Aegean: Crete, Cyprus, Lycia and the Peloponnese' in ''Annual of the British School at Athens'' vol. 112 (November 2017) pp. 207–266
* ''The Mosaics of Roman Crete: Art, Archaeology and Social Change'' (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
* (ed.) ''Roman Colonies in the First Century of Their Foundation'' (Oxbow, 2011)
References
External links
Staff page at the University of St Andrews
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Irish scholars and academics
Irish classical scholars
Women classical scholars
Living people
Alumni of University College Dublin
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Academics of the University of St Andrews
Year of birth missing (living people)