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Academic Background
I am a Researcher in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Gothenburg, a Departmental Lecturer in Classical Sexuality and Gender Studies at the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, and a Fulford Junior Research Fellow and Stipendiary Lecturer in Classics at Somerville College.
I received a BMedSci in Neurology and Physiology (2009) from Flinders University, a BA (Hons) in Classical Studies and Psychology (2011) and an MPhil in Classical Studies (2014) from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History (2019) from the University of Gothenburg. My PhD thesis examined competitions for status among senatorial women in Mid-Republican Rome with a focus on competitive domains, resources, and regulation.
Research Interests
I am a Roman historian, specializing in gender, law, religion, and space in Republican Rome. Much of my recent work has focused on Roman women, particularly their public roles and visibility.
My research interests extend in additional directions, including crises and crisis management in the Roman Republic, theoretical approaches to Roman archaeology and history, and the material culture of ancient Etruria and Thessaly.
My current research project is entitled ‘Crisis rituals: Civic religion and crisis management in Republican Rome’ and is funded by the Swedish Research Council (2023–2025). This project investigates the dynamics and impacts of religious crisis management in Republican Rome, particularly the official religious responses of male and female leaders to community crises and the ways in which these crises and responses transformed the city.
My recent postdoctoral research project was entitled ‘(In)visible women: Female spatial practices and visibility in urban spaces in Republican Rome (509–27 BCE)’ and was funded by the Swedish Research Council (2020–2022). This project aimed to challenge and resolve some ancient and contemporary misconceptions about women in Republican Rome, especially their purported invisibility and association with domestic spaces and practices.
Additionally, I am a researcher within two archaeological projects in Italy and Greece, namely the Swedish research project Understanding Urban Identities from the Bronze Age to the Roman time: The case of Vulci in the context of southern Etruria in Viterbo, Italy, which is investigating the ancient city of Vulci, and the Greek-Swedish Palamas Archaeological Project in the municipality of Palamas, Greece, which is investigating the ancient city at Vlochos.
I am also a series editor for book series Women in Ancient Cultures for Liverpool University Press.
Crisis rituals: Civic religion and crisis management in Republican Rome
How do leaders manage community crises? Which roles might religion play in crisis management? This project's purpose is to investigate the interactions between, and transformative effects of, community crises and the official religious responses of political and religious leaders in Republican Rome (509–27 BCE), a city characterized by crises, wherein civic religion was a focal point for crisis management. Previous studies seldom treat civic religion as crisis management, or include women, and scholarship on crisis and religion is rarely in dialogue. This project aims at a) investigating and systematizing the official religious responses of male and female leaders to community crises; b) investigating and outlining how crises and leaders' religious responses physically and religiously transformed Rome; and c) broadening our knowledge of Roman leaders' crisis management strategies and religion's roles therein. This project will generate a more comprehensive and integrated image of crisis management in Republican Rome, encourage reflection on the entanglement of religion and politics, and offer a lens on leaders’ responses to contemporary crises.
(In)visible women: Female spatial practices and visibility in urban spaces in Republican Rome (509–27 BCE)
A woman’s place was at home in Republican Rome (509–27 BCE). To appear in public was ‘abnormal’ or ‘transgressive’. Such is the status quo in the traditional scholarship. This project will challenge this status quo by comprehensively examining and visualizing all the available ancient evidence for female spatial practices and visibility in urban spaces in Republican Rome. To do so it will adopt an interdisciplinary, intersectional approach, combining Roman Republican history, spatial history, and gender history with intersectional feminist theory, a spatial database, and digital mapping. Traditional scholarship links women in Rome with private spaces and practices, but recent scholarship highlights their public lives and practices. So how (in)visible were they? The project aims to challenge and resolve misconceptions about these women and to shed light on their lives. This novel project will expand our knowledge of women’s lives, enhance the visibility of past women, and offer an interdisciplinary model for reconsidering female spatial practices and visibility in other periods and cultures.
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Spectatissima Femina: Female Visibility and Religion in Urban Spaces in Republican
Rome
Lewis Webb
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHILOLOGY - 2024 -
Brenda Longfellow and Molly Swetnam-Burland (eds.), Women's lives, women's voices : Roman material culture and female agency in the Bay of Naples. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. Pp. 408, illus. isbn 9781477323588.
$55.00.
Lewis Webb
Journal of Roman Studies - 2023 -
Gender in ancient Rome: New directions and
voices
L Brännstedt, Lewis Webb
Opuscula: Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome - 2023 -
The Palamas Archaeological Project. A preliminary report of the 2022 fieldwork conducted by the ongoing Greek–Swedish archaeological field programme in Palamas, region of Karditsa,
Thessaly
Maria Vaïopoulou, Robin Rönnlund, Fotini Tsiouka, Johan Klange, Derek Pitman, Richard Potter, Ian Randall, Harry Manley, Elisabet Schager, Sotiria Dandou, Lewis Webb
Opuscula: The annual of the Swedish institutes at Athens and Rome - 2023 -
Roman and Early Byzantine evidence from the area of Palamas. A preliminary report of the ongoing Greek-Swedish archaeological work in the region of Karditsa,
Thessaly
Maria Vaïopoulou, Robin Rönnlund, Fotini Tsiouka, Johan Klange, Derek Pitman, Richard Potter, Sotiria Dandou, Lawrence Shaw, Lewis Webb, Stelios Ieremias, Ian Randall, Harry Manley
Opuscula Atheniensia : Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens - 2022 -
Gendering the Roman Triumph: Elite women and the Triumph in the Republic and Early
Empire
Lewis Webb, Lovisa Brännstedt
Gendering Roman Imperialism - 2022 -
Female Interventions in Politics in the libera res publica: Structures and
Practices
Lewis Webb
Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome / Roman M. Frolov and Christopher Burden-Strevens (eds.) - 2022 -
Impoverished Senatorial Women in Mid-Republican Rome: Opima Gloria and Felix
Paupertas?
Lewis Webb
Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Realities and Discourses / edited by Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Lucia Cecchet, and Carlos Machado. - 2022 -
Exaequatio and aemulatio: Regulation of Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican
Rome
Lewis Webb
Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies / edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb - 2022 -
Introduction
Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb
Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies / edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb - 2022 -
(Re)presentations — Reflections and Concluding
Remarks
Lewis Webb
Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies / edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb - 2022 -
(Re)presentations —
Introduction
Lewis Webb
Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies / / edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb. - 2022 -
Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern
Societies
Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb
2022 -
History and Archaeology at Vulci: Old Evidence and New Data from a Geophysical Investigation in the Urban
Area
Serena Sabatini, Kristian Göransson, Anna Gustavsson, Stephen Kay, Elena Pomar, Irene Selsvold, Lewis Webb
Bollettino di Archeologia - 2021 -
lex
Canuleia
Lewis Webb
Oxford Classical Dictionary - 2021 -
Women and politics in late republican Rome - (F.) Rohr Vio Le custodi del potere. Donne e politica alla fine della repubblica Romana. (Piccoli saggi 66.) Pp. 268. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 2019. Paper, €22. ISBN:
978-88-6973-369-7.
Lewis Webb
Classical Review - 2020 -
Beyond the Romans: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman
Archaeology
Irene Selsvold, Lewis Webb
2020 -
Introduction: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman
Archaeology
Lewis Webb, Irene Selsvold
Irene Selsvold and Lewis Webb (eds.) Beyond The Romans: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman Archaeology - 2020 -
The Romans and the Anthropocene: Posthuman
Provocations
Irene Selsvold, Lewis Webb
Irene Selsvold and Lewis Webb (eds.) Beyond the Romans: Posthuman Perspectives in Roman Archaeology - 2020 -
Gloria muliebris: Elite female status competition in Mid-Republican
Rome
Lewis Webb
2019 -
Qui hic mos est in publicum procurrendi? Reconsidering female presence and visibility in public and sacred spaces in Republican
Rome
Lewis Webb
Spaces of Roman Constitutionalism Conference, 26.-28.9.2019, Helsinki, Finland - 2019 -
Leges durae: Regulations affecting women’s property rights in Mid-Republican
Rome
Lewis Webb
Australasian Society of Classical Studies Annual Conference, Armidale, NSW, Australia, 4-7 February 2019. - 2019 -
Mihi es aemula: Elite Female Status Competition in Mid-Republican Rome and the Example of Tertia
Aemilia
Lewis Webb
Eris vs. Aemulatio: Valuing Competition in Classical Antiquity / Damon, Cynthia, Pieper, Christoph (eds.) - 2018 -
Gendering the Roman
imago
Lewis Webb
Classical Association Annual Conference, 6 - 9 April 2018, University of Leicester - 2018 -
Religious Leadership, Ancient Roman
Religions
Lewis Webb
Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History / Susan de-Gaia, Editor - 2018 -
Inter imperium sine fine: Thule and Hyperborea in Roman
Literature
Lewis Webb
Visions of North in Premodern Europe - 2018 -
Gendering the Roman imago: Clarae imagines from filia to
funus
Lewis Webb
ARACHNE VIII: Ages, Ageing and Old Age in the Greco-Roman World Conference, 25-27 October 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2017 -
Gendering the imago: Clarae imagines from filia to
funus
Lewis Webb
International Society for Cultural History Annual Conference - 2017 -
PROTEAN
TARPEIA
Lewis Webb
Classical Review - 2017 -
SEMPER SUPPLICAT: FEMALE SACERDOTAL
CAPACITY
Lewis Webb
Classical Review - 2017 -
Gendering the Roman
imago
Lewis Webb
Eugesta - 2017 -
Semiviri vates: Visions of early Roman encounters with the
Galli
Lewis Webb
Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference - 2016 -
Pompa matrum: Elite women and the pompa for Magna Mater in 204
BCE
Lewis Webb
Classical Association Annual Conference - 2016 -
Matronae imperiosae: The imperiality of Aemilia Paulla and Livia
Drusilla
Lewis Webb
Gendering Roman Imperialism Workshop - 2016 -
Mihi es aemula: Female status competition in the Roman
Republic
Lewis Webb
Penn-Leiden Colloquium on Ancient Values IX (Eris vs. Aemulatio: Competition in Classical Antiquity) - 2016 -
ROMAN WOMEN CENTRE
STAGE
Lewis Webb
Classical Review - 2016 -
Volitans Victoria: Elite women and the advent of the Magna Mater (204
BCE)
Lewis Webb
Gender and Status Competition in Premodern Societies Workshop - 2015 -
Shame transfigured: Slut-shaming from Rome to
cyberspace
Lewis Webb
First Monday - 2015 -
Sexual virtue exposed: ‘Slut-shaming’ in cyberspace and on the streets of Ancient
Rome
Lewis Webb
Digital Gender: Theory, Methodology and Practice Workshop - 2014 -
Northern Desire: Thule and Hyperborea in Greco-Roman
Thought
Lewis Webb
Northern Visions Workshop - 2014 -
Challenging Androcentric Ambitio: Female Status Competition in the Roman
Republic
Lewis Webb
g14 National Gender Conference - 2014 -
‘I’m your Venus, I’m your fire’: the religious prominence of female virtue in the Second Punic
War
Lewis Webb
Subversion and Censorship from Plato to Wikileaks Conference - 2013