Dr Elena Isayev
Biography
Elena Isayev Curriculum Vitae
CURRENT POSITION
From 2002 Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Classics & Ancient History, University of Exeter
Specialism: History, Ancient Italy & Rome, Material Culture, Archaeology, Migration, Place, Identity
Additional university positions and academic responsibilities, held alongside teaching
Director of Undergraduate Admissions policy & External Relations, Humanities & Social Sciences;
Chair of University of Exeter Academic Representatives on Senate; Board Member Arts & Culture;
Elected member of Senate; Strategy, Performance & Resources Committee; Ethics Committee
PhD Supervisor; MA Co-ordinator; previously Dep’t Director of UG Studies; Junior Staff Mentor
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Lecturer, Ancient History: Department of History, University College London (2000-02)
Lecturer, Department of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Birmingham (.5/ 2000-1)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, University College London, University of London (July 2000)
Dissertation: Indigenous communities in Lucania: social organization & political forms, 4t-1st c. BC
M.A. Classical Archaeology (Distinction), University of British Columbia, Vancouver (1995)
B.A. Hon. History/Classical Studies, (First Class, magna cum laude), York University, Toronto (1993)
CURRENT and RECENTLY FINISHED RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
• AHRC Fellowship (Jan-Sept 2011) for: Paradoxes of Place: pausing motion in Ancient Italy
• AHRC Beyond Text Follow on Funding Scheme (Feb 2010-11) for Future Memory in Place
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/deplacingfuturememory-fo/index.php
• AHRC, Research Networking Grant (2012) for: Italy as a Crossroad. The transformative nature of
Human Mobility: The Italian/Mediterranean case as an explanatory model.
Co-Investigator with Guido Bonsaver (PI), University of Oxford & Guido Tintori, Key Partner.
• Davis Fellowship, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University (2010)
for: Paradoxes of Place: pausing motion in ancient Italy & now. In Cultures & Institutions in Motion
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS/SCHOLARSHIPS COMPLETED
• University of Exeter, Teaching Relief Fellowship (2005)
• St. John’s College, Oxford , Visiting Scholarship (2002)
• Wingate Scholarship for work on Ancient Lucania at University College London (1998-9)
• British Academy Rome Scholarship (British School at Rome) (1997-8)
• Overseas Research Scholarship (University College London) (1996-8)
• University Graduate Fellowship (University of British Columbia) (1993-5)
RESEARCH GRANTS
• AHRC, Beyond Text, Workshop Grant (2008-9) for: De-Placing Future Memory
http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/deplacingfuturememory/index.php
• British Academy Travel Grant for AIAC Conference in Rome (2008)
• Wiseman Fund, grant for The Oscan Fringe, International Workshop, University of Exeter (2007)
• British Academy Small Research grant (with Alan Outram, Archaeology) for: Excavation, survey and environmental analysis at Tegiszhol, Central Kazakhstan (2006)
• University of Exeter Network Grant for The Migrations Network (with Regenia Gagnier) (2006)
• British Academy Small Research Grant for: Communities in South-West Italy, the context of settlement change in the second century BC (2005).
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
• Member Faculty Archaeology History & Letters; Publication Advisory Board: British School at Rome
• Elected Member of Council of University Classics Departments (CUCD), UK, Standing Committee
• Expert Reviewer for Romanian National Research Council (CNCS) (from 2011)
• External Examiner, University of Leicester, School of Archaeology and Ancient History (from 2011)
• External Examiner, University of Lampeter, Department of Classics & Ancient History (from 2008)
• Co-director of Interdisciplinary Migrations Research Network, University of Exeter
• Trustee for Reid Trust, Grants in support of Higher Education for Women
• Academic Advisor for One Bright Space (http://www.onebrightspace.com/) on the projects:
• The People's Collection, Welsh Assembly
• Ireland’s World Heritage Sites, Dep’t of Environment, Heritage & Local Government, Ireland
REVIEWER FOR:
Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome; World Archaeology; Journal of Roman Studies; Classical Review; International History Review; Mouseion; Papers of the British School at Rome; British Museum; Oxbow; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Director and Organsier of De-Placing Future Memory, project, workshops, music performance & art exhibition, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2008-9)
• Organizer of Climate Change and Migration Workshop with the UK Meteorological Office Supported by the Interdisciplinary Migrations Network, University of Exeter, 15 February (2007)
• Co-organizer of international workshop: The Oscan Fringe: Research Agendas for the Central-South Appennines, with Rafael Scopacasa, University of Exeter, supported by the Wiseman Fund, 11-12 September (2007)
• Co-organizer of interdisciplinary workshop: Migration, Diaspora & Identity Colloquium, University of Exeter, 8 Nov. (2005)
• Organizer interdisciplinary workshop: Poverty: Relative or Absolute? UCL, London, Apr. (2002)
• Member of the international project: Inventaire des lieux de culte de l’Italie antique (1998-03) CNRS, Paris, Università degli Studi di Perugia and University College London
• Organizer of a panel on Sanctuaries: Interpretation beyond the ritual context, for Roman Archaeology Conference, University of Durham 16-18 Apr. (1999)
• Organizer of interdisciplinary colloquium: Why Suicide? Timeless Universal or Culturally Specific? University College London, and the Centre for European Research, 15 May (1999)
• Organizer of workshop with artists on Perceptions of Landscape (British School at Rome) (1997)
• Co-organizer of the ‘Ancient History Methodological Colloquium’ (UCL -Oxford) (1997)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
Country Site and Date
Kazakstan Tegiszhol, Karaganda (Aug. 2006), Bronze Age Site Co-Director of excavations
Britain Llanon, Ceredigion (July 2000), Medieval - Tudor site Director of excavations
Italy S. Martino, Romagnano Sesia (Sept. 1996-8), Multi-period Director of excavations
Italy Fregellae (June 1996), Ancient Italic urban centre Assistant Site Supervisor
Italy Potenza (July 1994), S. Giovanni di Ruoti Roman villa Assistant Site Supervisor
Italy Cortona (June 1993), Oppido (July 1993) -Roman villa Assistant Site Supervisor
