Our research areas
Department of Classics and Religion researchers are involved with a broad variety of research interests.
Afrikaner Nationalism
Irving Hexham
Ancient Biography
Noreen Humble
Ancient Medicine
Amber Porter, Lesley Bolton
Ancient Technology
Lesley Bolton
Art and architecture in ancient Greece
Amber Porter
Buddhist Philosophy
Christopher Framarin
Chinese religions
Wendi Adamek
Christian Fundamentalism
Irving Hexham
Christianity
Laura Jurgens
Comparative Philosophy
Tinu Ruparell
Cultural History of Medicine
Amber Porter, Peter Toohey
Dutch neo-Calvinism
Irving Hexham
East Asian Buddhism
Wendi Adamek
Epigraphy and Curse Tablets
Lesley Bolton
Ethics
Clara Joseph, Christopher Framarin
Gender and Sexuality
Laura Jurgens, Peter Toohey
Greek and Roman Epic Poetry
Peter Toohey
Hermeneutics
Tinu Ruparell
Hinduism
Elizabeth Rohlman
History of Madness
Peter Toohey
History of the Emotions
Amber Porter, Peter Toohey
Idealism and Indian Philosophy
Tinu Ruparell
Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
James Apple
Indian Philosophy (esp.Ethics and Metaphysics)
Christopher Framarin
Mahayana Buddhism
James Apple
Medical Manuscripts
Lesley Bolton
Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Wendi Adamek
Methods and Theory in the Study of Religion
Irving Hexham
Nationalism and Religion
Irving Hexham
National Socialism and political extremism
Irving Hexham
New Religious Movements
Irving Hexham
Philosophy of Religion
Christopher Framarin
Plutarch
Noreen Humble
Political Religions
Irving Hexham
Postcolonial Theory
Clara Joseph
Puranas
Elizabeth Rohlman
Radical Reformation Studies
Laura Jurgens
Reception of ancient authors in Byzantium and in the Renaissance
Noreen Humble
Regional and sectarian religious movements
Elizabeth Rohlman
Regionally-produced Sanskrit literature
Elizabeth Rohlman
Religion and Politics
Irving Hexham
Religious geography
Elizabeth Rohlman
Religious Pluralism and interreligious dialogue
Tinu Ruparell
Roman art and archaeology
Lisa Hughes
Romano-British Archaeology, particularly Hadrian's Wall area
Lesley Bolton
Roman social history
Lisa Hughes
Sanskrit
James Apple
Science and Religion
Tinu Ruparell
Sikhism
Harjeet Singh Grewal
South Asian religious history
Elizabeth Rohlman
Sparta
Noreen Humble
Special interest: non-elite representations of the early empire
Lisa Hughes
Tibetan
James Apple
Western Religions
Laura Jurgens
Women and Religion
Laura Jurgens
Women in the ancient world
Amber Porter
Xenophon
Noreen Humble
Meet our researchers
Meet the researchers in the Department of Classics and Religion