Bronwen Neil
Professor
Department of Ancient History
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Bronwen Neil is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie, and member of the Macquarie University Ancient Cultures Research Centre. She studied Linguistics, Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland (1987-1991), before undertaking a Master of Arts in Theological Research at Durham University, UK (1997/1998) and completing her PhD at Australian Catholic University in 1999. Subsequently, she joined the Centre for Early Christian Studies there (2000-2015), serving as Associate Director (2014-2015). From 2001-2005 she held an ARC Postgraduate Research Fellowship, while teaching in the School of Theology at ACU. In 2010 she was appointed the inaugural holder of the Burke Senior Lectureship in Ecclesiastical Latin, and in 2015 was promoted to Associate Professor. She was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship (2014-2018) and joined Macquarie University as Professor of Ancient History in 2017.
Research Interest
Ancient History
Publications
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A matter of interpretation: on methodology and the archaeology of the United Monarchy Thomas, Z. 2018 In : Archaeology and Text. 2
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Telling off Justinian: Theudebert I, the Epistolae Austrasicae, and communication strategies in sixth-century Merovingian-Byzantine relations Gillett, A. 2019 In : Early Medieval Europe.
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Religious Continuity from the Late Bronze Age into the Iron Age and Beyond Lupack, S. 2019 Collapse and Transformation: The Late Bronze Age/Early Iron in the Aegean. Middleton, G. (ed.). Oxford: Oxbow Books
