Associate Professor Lisa Kaaren Bailey

Biography

• Associate Professor in History and in Classics and Ancient History

Research | Current

• Christianity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
• Slavery and the rhetoric of religious service
• The religious cultures of the laity
• Preaching and sermon collections, especially in Gaul

Teaching | Current

ANCHIST 110 Ancient Eygpt, Greece and Rome

ANCHIST 103 Roman History

ANCHIST 255 The Later Roman Empire

ANCHIST 260 Roman Revolutions

ANCHIST 314 Historians of Rome

ANCHIST 355 The Later Roman Empire

ANCHIST 360 Roman Revolutions

ANCHIST 747AB Themes and Issues in Roman Culture

HISTORY 254 Barbarians: Antiquity to Vikings

HISTORY 354 Barbarians: Antiquity to Vikings

HISTORY 735 Saints and Sinners c. 300 - 800

HISTORY 706 European Cultural History

Postgraduate supervision

Topics currently supervising

• Magic, religious deviance and the late antique legal tradition
• Virgins and sacrifice
• Models of female virtue in the fourth century
• Romanitas and late Roman poetry
• Burial customs in Anglo-Saxon and Norse cultures
• Transformation of late Roman law
• Origin myths in late antiquity and the middle ages

Topics available to supervise

• Late antiquity and early middle ages, especially religious and cultural history
• Saints, relics and miracles; religious conflicts
• ‘Barbarian’ cultures in Western Europe, early Byzantium
• The end/ transformation of the Roman empire
• Lay culture and religious experiences

Distinctions/Honours

• Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Grant 2017
• Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fast-Start Grant 2008

Responsibilities

Associate Dean Postgraduate, Faculty of Arts