Associate ProfessorLesley Beaumont
Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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- Associate ProfessorFaculty of Arts and Social Sciences
LEARNING & TEACHING SUMMARy
Dr Beaumont teaches at all levels of the undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum. Units of study include:
- ARCO1001: Civilisations of the Ancient World
- ARCO2007: Ancient Greece
- ARCO2107: Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
- ARCO2111: Pompeii and Herculaneum. Past to Present
- ARCO3404: Archaeology in the Field
- ARCO4106: Advanced Archaeological Research
- ARCL6902: The Archaeology of Athens
Dr Beaumont also organises, co-ordinates and co-teaches a three-week intensive Classical Archaeology Summer School in Greece for undergraduate and postgraduate students and high school teachers of Ancient History.
Postgraduate supervision of completed and current research students includes: gesture in ancient Greek funerary art, iconography of vegetation in Greek figured vase painting, bath houses in the Athenian Agora, Roman portrait sculpture, household archaeology at Geometric Zagora, Early Iron Age metalworking at Zagora, ancient Greek textiles, the archaeology of religion in the Greek Iron Age, maritime perspectives on the prehistoric and protohistoric Eastern Aegean, Archaic and Classical Chios, the archaeology of childhood, and the ancient Greek body ideal.