Caillan Davenport
Lecturer
Department of Ancient History
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Dr Caillan Davenport is a Lecturer in Roman History at Macquarie University. He completed his BA (Hons) and MPhil at the University of Queensland. He then undertook a DPhil at the University of Oxford supported by a John Crampton Travelling Scholarship. He has been a Junior Fellow at the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies (ACANS) at Macquarie University, and a Rome Awardee at the British School at Rome. In 2015-2017, Dr Davenport is a DECRA Research Fellow directing the project 'Popular Perceptions of Roman Emperors from Augustus to Theodosius I', funded by the Australian Research Council. He taught Latin and Ancient History at the University of Queensland for six and a half years before moving to Macquarie in June 2017.
Research Interest
Roman history
Publications
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Medieval power Davenport, C. 2016 In : History Australia. 13, 3, p. 431-432 2 p.
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Fashioning a soldier emperor: Maximian, Pannonia, and the Panegyrics of 289 and 291 Davenport, C. 2016 In : Phoenix. 70, 3-4, p. 381-400 20 p.
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The sexual habits of Caracalla: rumour, gossip, and historiography Davenport, C. 2017 In : Histos: The On-line Journal of Ancient Historiography. 11, p. 75-100 26 p.
