Who's Who in Roman Military Studies

Who's Who
in Roman Military Studies

In an attempt to aid Roman Military studies, this listing is an informal compilation of every scholar, expert and historian of the Roman military that we can identify. It includes not just current scholars but past pioneers and giants in the field. While currently a static alphabetized list, I hope to enter this information into a more useful database format soon.

We would like to list at a minimum: name, title, specialities, university/organization, physical address, publications and website. We are of several minds on the email presently, but if it is publicly available we will list it. This information is not available for every individual, but we are always trying to fill in the gaps.

This Who's Who is compiled (as of 1/25/2004) by Richard Campbell for the Roman Army website edited by Jenny Cline, Jasper Oorthuys, and Sander Van Dorst.

Should you be able to add to or correct this list, please email me at [email protected], or leave a message at the Roman Army Talk board.

As a parallel effort, we will institute a Who's Who for Roman Civilian scholars, experts and historians. This listing will proceed in earnest as the structure of the database is finalized.

Currently, our broad categories are:

Epigraphy
Archaeology
Military equipment
Military Theory
Rank Structure
Military Intelligence

On Presentation & Reconstruction

I am compiling a Who's Who of Roman Reenactment as a recognition of these unique achievements. Currently this includes the categories:
"Reconstruction" which recognizes those amateurs & non-professionals who have developed accurate reconstructions of Roman military and equipment based solely on archaeological and historical sources, and who have made a significant difference in the diffusion of knowledge and enthusiasm about the Roman army.
"Internet Presentation" for those people who have developed a presentation that can only be done with Internet technologies, and

Name & link	Known For	Contact Information	Recent or Major Publications
Dr. Geza Alfoeldy	Epigraphy	University of Heidelberg [email protected]
Dr. Richard Alston	Soldier and Society; Roman army in Egypt	Dept of Classics Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, Surrey
Lindsay Allason-Jones	Archaeology	[email protected] Director of Archaeological Museums: Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU.
J.K Anderson
Dr. Robin Birley	EPIGRAPHY (various); Archaeology (Corbridge, Housesteads, Vindolanda); Rank Structure	[email protected] Roman Vindolanda, Chesterholm Museum, Bardon Mill, Hexham, Northumberland, NE47 7JN.
Dr. Mike Bishop	MILITARY EQUIPMENT	[email protected] Braemar, Kirkgate, Chirnside, Duns, Berwickshire, TD11 3XL, GB
Dr. Eugene Borza
Dr. Alan.K. Bowman	Papyrology; Vindolanda writing tablets,	University of Oxford, The Classics Office 37 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2J [email protected]
Dr. Dragan Bozic	MILITARY EQUIPMENT (arms and armour, harness, bronze vessels, writing implements)	Inštitut za arheologijo ZRC SAZU Gosposka 13, SI-1000 LJUBLJANA, Slovenia
Dr Guy Bradley		School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University, PO Box 909, CARDIFF CF10 3XU (e-mail: [email protected]).
D J Breeze	Archaeology (Bearsden, Carrawburgh); WRITING (Military organization, Hadrian's wall, more)
Dott. Maurizio Buora
Dr. Thomas Samuel Burns	Late Roman Military,	Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Late Ancient and Medieval History, Emory University, 1985-	(many) e.g. Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 A.D.
Alexandra W Busch M A
Dr. J Brian Campbell	Military Engineering, Military Organization	http://www.qub.ac.uk/cah/jbcampbell.htm School of Classics and Ancient History, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN. e-mail: [email protected]
G.L. Cheesman	Archaeology: Military: Corbridge	Center for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford
Dr. Antonio R. Colmenero
Peter Connolly	MILITARY EQUIPMENT, Illustrations and recreations
Professor T.J.Cornell	MILITARY, Republic	Dept of History, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL [email protected]
Dr. Jon C N Coulston	MILITARY EQUIPMENT(Roman Armor)	http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~www_sglah/staff/coulston.html [email protected] School of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of St Andrews, St Salvator's College, St. Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL, GB
Drs. Sabine u.Eckhard Deschler-Erb		[email protected] Neuer Weg 10 4114 Hofstetten SUISSE
Dr. Robert Dise	Administration of the Roman Army	Univ. of Northern Iowa Dept. of History
Dr. Carol Van Driel-Murray	Archaeology: Leather and Textiles; MILITARY equipment	[email protected] IPP, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ Amsterdam, NL
Dr. Brian Dobson
Dr. Heimo Dolenz		Abteilung für Provinzialrömische Archäologie und antike Numismatik [email protected]
Professor Dr. Werner Eck	Epigraphy	Universität zu Köln Institut für Altertumskunde - Alte Geschichte - Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln
Hugh Elton	Later Roman Military; the workings of the Roman Empire:current research is focused on the regions of Isauria and Cilicia	Florida International Univ; currently at British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Tahran Caddesi 24, Kavaklidere, Ankara 06700 TURKEY
Dr. Paul Erdkamp	Roman Logistics
Prof Thomas Fischer
Dr Michel Feugere	Military Equipment	[email protected] , UMR 154 du CNRS, CDAR, 390 Av. de Pérols, 34970 Lattes, France
Dr. Richard Frank	Roman Army, Roman Bureaucracy,	University of California 423 HOB, 142B HH Mail Code: 3275 Irvine, CA 92697
Dr. Sheppard Frere		(retired from) Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG Phone: 01865 278240
Dr Kate Gilliver	Roman Warfare, Military Theory	School of History & Archaeology, Cardiff University, PO Box 909, Cardiff CF1 3XU [email protected]
Dr. G. T Griffith
Dr. Vic Hanson
Dr. Martin Hartmann
Mark Hassall	Legionary Fortresses	Institute of Archaeology University College London 31-34 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PY United Kingdom
Dr. Ian Haynes	Archaeology; Roman Religion, Roman Auxilia	School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX [email protected]
Lic phil. Adrian Huber
Ann Hyland	RECONSTRUCTION; Roman Cavalry recreations
Dr. Georgia Irby-Massie		Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures 222 Prescott Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 [email protected]
Dr. Benjamin Henri Isaac	Roman Army in the East, Epigraphy, Archaeology	Tel Aviv University. Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History.
Dr. Janka Istenic	Military Equipment	Narodni muzej Slovenije, Presernova 20, SI-1000 Ljubljana [email protected]
Dr. Simon James	Reconstruction, Roman arms and military dress, the army of the middle empire (second to third centuries AD),	[email protected] http://www.le.ac.uk/archaeology/staff_sj.htm School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH
Dr. Sonja Jilek
Dr. Markus Junkelmann	MILITARY EQUIPMENT(Recreation of a Roman cavalry ala, gladiators, WRITING, RECONSTRUCTION	[email protected]
Dr. Gergana Kabakchieva
Dr. Donald Kagan		Hillhouse Professor of History and Classics: Greek history 215 HGS. Yale University Dept of Classics, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520
Dr. John Keegan
Prof. David Kennedy	Archaeology of the Roman Empire; aerial archaeology; Roman army and frontier studies	Univ of Western Australia, Dept of Classics, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, Western Australia 6009 telephone: (+61 8) 9380 2165 [email protected]
Dr. Lawrence Keppie	MILITARY Theory; Tactics of Roman invasion of Britain,	[email protected] http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/people/lkeppie/ljfk.html
Dr. Ernst Kunzl	MILITARY EQUIPMENT	http://www.archaeologie-sachbuch.de/index.htm [email protected]
Dr. John F Lazenby	Punic Wars, Greece	Professor in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Monsieur le Professeur Yann Le Bohec	MILITARY HISTORY	L'Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris
Dr. habil. Karl Heinz Lenz
Univ Doz Dr. Martin Luik		Universität Trier, FB III- Alte Geschichte A 214, SFB Projekt C 10 Wirtschaftsstrukturen, D-54286 Trier
Dr. Valerie Maxfield	Provincial & Frontier Armies	http://www.ex.ac.uk/~tjrees/pl94bjw/vmaxfiel.html Department of History and Archaeology Queens Building Exeter University
Dr. J A W Nicolay
Dr. Josiah Ober	Greek and Roman history, topography of Greece, historiography, ancient political thought	Princeton University, Dept. of Classics 58 Prospect Ave., Room 303a, Princeton, NJ 08544 [email protected]
Priv.-Doz. Dr J. Oldenstein	Military Equipment, Late Roman Forts	[email protected] Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099 Mainz, D 06131-39 30187; Sekretariat 39 30009
Dr. Salvatore Ortisi		http://www.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/vfpa/pra/lehren2.html [email protected]
Dr. M. Pavkovic		[email protected] Hawaii Pacific University, 1188 Fort Street, Suite 442, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813, USA
John Peddie, OBE, MC	MILITARY Theory
Dr Nigel Pollard	Roman and Hellenistic art, archaeology and history, especially of Italy and the eastern Mediterranean and near East	Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PG	Soldiers, Cities and Civilians in Roman Syria (University of Michigan Press, 2000)
Dr. Matthieu Poux	Late Iron Age Gaul, Wine Trade, Celtic Feasts, Celtic Religion, Republican Military studies (Gaul Conquest), Origins of Lutetia (Paris)	Université de Lausanne (Switzerland) 23 rue de Berne CH-1201 Genève (Switzerland)	Matthieu Poux, Puits funéraire d'époque gauloise à Paris. Une tombe d'auxiliaire républicain aux origines de Lutèce. Coll. Protohistoire Européenne 4. Ed. Monique Mergoil, 1999 (monography).
Dr. Elisabeth Rabeisen		Conservatrice du Musée d'Alise-Sainte-Reine
Dr. Jan Rajtar
Dr. Boris Rankov	Roman Navy, Praetorian Guard, Inscriptions, Military Intelligence, Beneficiarii	Senior Lecturer in Classics Royal Holloway University of London Egham Surrey TW20 0EX
Dr. Louis Rawlings	"My research interests are in ancient warfare and society, particularly the social and cultural expectations inherent in differing scales and intensities of warfare."	Lecturer in Ancient History HISAR, University of Wales, Cardiff, PO BOX 909, Cardiff CF10 3XU. [email protected]
Dr Markus Reuter
(Sir) Ian A Richmond	Archaeology (Cawthorn, Corbridge, Fendoch, Hod Hill, Inchtuthil, Newstead); WRITING (Roman Britain)	Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at Oxford,
H. Russell Robinson	"Armour of Imperial Rome" MILITARY EQUIPMENT
Dr. Jonathan Roth	Roman Military History, SAMH	San Jose State University Dudley Moorhead Hall (DMH) 321
Dr. Margaret Roxan	Roman provinces; Roman army; Roman inscriptions	Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY. Tel: 020 7679 7495
Professor D. B. Saddington	EPIGRAPHY, Military
Dr. Walter Scheidel	Ancient social and economic history, especially historical demography, slavery, and Roman agrarian history	Department of History University of Chicago 1126 E. 59th St. Chicago IL 60637
Col. Rose Mary Sheldon	Roman Military Intelligence	Department of History Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA 24450
PD Dr. Michael A. Speidel	MILITARY Organization, Pay, Cavalry	[email protected]
Dr. Michael P. Speidel	Imperial Horse Guards	Honolulu, Hawaii
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Karl Strobel		Abt. f. Alte Geschichte und Altertumskunde Universität Klagenfurt Universitätsstraße 65-67 A-9020 Klagenfurt Tel.: +43 (0) 463-2700-2211 Fax: +43 (0) 463-2700-2298
Prof. Dr. Wilfried Stroh		http://www.klassphil.uni-muenchen.de/%7Estroh/ Institut für Klassische Philologie Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 D-80539 München Hauptgebäude
Dr. Roger Tomlin	Inscriptions, Late Roman Army	University Lecturer in Late Roman History Wolfson College Email: [email protected]
Dr. Warren Treadgold	Late Roman Army; Byzantium	St. Louis University, History Dept., 3800 Lindell Boulevard · P.O. Box 56907 · St. Louis, MO 63156-0907 [email protected]
Dr. Jurgen Trumm		Abteilung für Provinzialrömische Archäologie Freiburg
Univ Doz Dr Hansjorg Ubl
Lic phil. Annick Voirol
Dr. Ekkehard Weber	Epigraphy	Inst. Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Universität Wien, 1 Dr. Karl Lüggering, A-1010 Wien
G A Webster	Archaeology (Lincoln, Waddon Hill, Wroxeter); MILITARY EQUIPMENT (lorica segmentata);
Priv.-Doz. Dr. Gabriele Wesch-Klein	Epigraphy
Dr. J.J. Wilkes	History and Archaeology of the Graeco-Roman world in general with specializations in Britain and Southeast Europe	Yates Professor of Greek and Roman Archaeology, UCL email: [email protected]
Prof. Michael Whitby	Social, political, and religious history of the later Roman Empire and Byzantium,	Univ. of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 3523 Fax: +44 (0)24 7646 1606

Reenactment and Reconstruction

This table is for those who have contributed greatly to the reconstruction and 'living history' of the Roman Army.

Reconstruction

Matt Amt Legio XX, Washington DC

Chris Haines Ermine Street Guard

Dan Petersen Legio XIIII, Germany

Michael Simkins Armorer, UK

Marcus Junkelmann Cavalry, gladiators, Germany

Gary Bruggeman Computer reconstruction

Kurt Suleski Catapults

The following names are to be added as I get biographical information:

Dobson (B),
Dobson (M),
Maxwell,
Maxfield,
Tomlin,
Ulbert,
Willems G L Cheesman
Karen Dixon
Pat Southern
Paul Erdkamp
Cate M. Gulliver
Adrian Goldsworthy
Paul Holder
Edward Luttwak
E. W. Marsden John Drogo Montagu
H M D Parker
William Rodgers
Lino Rossi
Christine Salazar
I P Stephenson
Graham Sumner
John Warry
G R Watson
Graham Webster

Francois Bérard, Parius
Anthony Birley, Duesseldorf
Laszlo Borhy, Budapest
Angelos Chaniotis, Heidelberg
Michel Christol, Paris
Ginette Di Vita-Evrard, Paris
Brian Dobson, Durham?
Pierre Ducrey, Lausanne
Rudolg Haensch, Koeln
Peter Kovacs, Budapest
Patrick Le Roux, Paris
Barnabas Loerincz, Budapest
Silvio Panciera, Roma
Ioan Piso, Cluj
Zsolt Visy, Pécs
Rainer Wiegels, Osnabrueck
Hartmut Wolff, Passau

G.L. Cheesman see:
www.csad.ox.ac.uk/CSAD
He was a supervisor on the Corbridge excavations prior to WW1, a position he gained because it was one of Haverfield's projects (he staffed it with his acolytes). A site notebook in his hand survives in the site museum archive.

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Reconstruction
Matt Amt	Legio XX, Washington DC
Chris Haines	Ermine Street Guard
Dan Petersen	Legio XIIII, Germany
Michael Simkins	Armorer, UK
Marcus Junkelmann	Cavalry, gladiators, Germany
Gary Bruggeman	Computer reconstruction
Kurt Suleski	Catapults