Departments

Antiquities

Research

Curatorial Responsibilities

The curatorial responsibilities of members of the Department, with a selection of recent or pending publications specifically on the Museum collections, are as follows:

Susan Walker, Keeper
Greek and Roman Antiquities
Since moving from the British Museum in 2004, Dr Walker has been much engaged with the design elements of the Ashmolean Plan. She is editing a collection of essays on recent Roman archaeological discoveries in Greece.
Arthur MacGregor, Senior Assistant Keeper
Roman Britain, Post-Roman European Antiquities and Tradescant Collection
Recent publications on the collections: The Ashmolean Museum: A history of the Institution & its collections (2001); England under the Stuarts. Collections in the Ashmolean from James I to Queen Anne (with M Hook, 2003); Catalogue of the engraved gems and finger-rings in the Ashmolean Museum. II., Roman (with M Henig, 2004); Catalogues of the Early Museum Collections, Part II: The Vice-Chancellor's Consolidated Catalogue (with M Hook, 2006).
Michael Vickers, Senior Assistant Keeper
Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Byzantine Antiquities
Recent/pending publications on the collections: The Ancient Romans (1992); Ancient Greek Pottery (1998); Skeuomorphismus, oder die Kunst aus wenig viel zu machen (1999); Scythian and Thracian Antiquities in Oxford (2002); The Arundel and Pomfret Marbles in Oxford (forthcoming 2006).
Helen Whitehouse, Senior Assistant Keeper
Egyptian and Nubian Collections
Recent/pending publications on the collections: Ancient Egypt and Nubia in the Ashmolean Museum (forthcoming).
Alison Roberts, Collections Manager and Curator for Prehistoric European collections
Prehistoric European collections and Pleistocene collections.
Recent/pending publications on the collections: Catalogue of the Palaeolithic material in the Sir John Evans collection (in progress for Sir John Evans Centenary Project).
Jack Green, Project Curator
Ancient Near Eastern Collections
Dr Green is developig the new gallery for the Ancient Near East collections. He specialises in the archaeology of the Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Ioannis Galanakis, Sackler Fellow
Bronze Age Greece collections