Dr. Hazel Dodge
Senior Lecturer
Classical Archaeology
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
I studied Archaeology at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and worked for a number of years at the University of Oxford, where I also held a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship, before coming to Trinity in 1994. I was nominated a Samuel H. Kress Lecturer of the Archaeological Institute of America for 2010-2011. In the Spring of 2013 I held the Frederic Lindley Morgan Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. I am a member of the Advisory Board for the journal Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum. I am also a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.
Research Interest
My research has three main strands, but all stem originally from my interest in Roman construction and building technology. Firstly, I am particularly interested in the quarrying, transport, distribution and use of decorative stones in the Roman world, for which I am compiling a database of all known applications, whether primary or re-use; this will also include ancient source materials as I am keen to identify areas of symbolism in the use of these stones. Secondly, I work on ancient spectacle and the buildings which were developed to accommodate the different types of entertainment; I have particularly concentrated on the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean. My third main research interest is urbanisation in the ancient world, and particularly the development of the City of Rome. I am currently working on two major projects: Cassiodorus and spectacle in late antiquity; and the symbolism of Egyptian stones used in the ancient city of Rome.
Publications
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with B. Ward-Perkins, Marble in Antiquity Collected Papers and lectures of J. B. Ward-Perkins, British School at Rome Mon. 6, London, British School at Rome, 1992
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with Peter Connolly, The Ancient City, Oxford University Press 1998
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Entertaining the Masses: the Structures, in D. Potter and D. Mattingly (eds), Life, death and Entertainment in the Roman World, Michigan University Press Ann Arbor 1999, 205-255
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The Building Materials from the East Baths, in L. Stirling, D. Stone and N. Ben Lazreg (eds), Leptiminus (Lamta) Report 2, JRA Suppl 41, Portsmouth RI 2001, 104-107
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editor (with J. C. N. Coulston), Ancient Rome: the Archaeology of the Eternal City, Oxford University School of Archaeology Monograph 54, Oxford 2000
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with J. C. Coulston, The metropolis, in G. Woolf (ed), Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World, Cambridge 2003, 138-169
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Circuses in the Roman East: A Reappraisal, in J Clement-Nelis and J-M Roddaz (eds), Actes du Colloque Le cirque romain et son image, Bordeaux, 2008, 133 -146
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Amphitheatres in the Roman East, in T. Wilmott (ed), Roman Amphitheatres and spectacula: a 21st century perspective. Papers from the Chester conference, February 2007, Chester, UK, Oxford 2009, 29-45
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Spectacle in the Roman World, Bristol Classical Press, London 2011
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Greek and Roman Building Materials and Techniques, Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, Sabine R. Huebner , Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Ancient History, Oxford 2012
