Dr Elena Isayev
Research Interests
Summary Publication Record and other Media - Elena Isayev
Books
Inside Ancient Lucania: Dialogues in History and Archaeology (2007). London: Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement, pp. 283. (This is a major research monograph.)
with Bradley, G. and Riva, C. (eds.) Ancient Italy: Regions Without Boundaries (2007). Exeter: University of Exeter Press, pp. 334.
Chapters and Articles in Refereed Journals/ /Edited Volumes (and excavation reports)
Just the right amount of priestly foreigness: Roman citizenship for the Greek priestess of Ceres. In F. Santangelo & J.H. Richardson (eds), Priests and State in the Roman World (2011). Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 373-390.
Corfinium and Rome: Changing Place in the Social War. In M. Gleba & H.W. Horsnaes (eds), Communicating Identity in Italic Iron Age Communities (2011). Oxford: Oxbow 210-22.
Unintentionally being Lucanian: dynamics beyond hybridity. In S. Hales & T. Hodos (eds.), Material Culture & Social Identities in the Ancient World (2009). Cambridge University Press, pp. 201-26.
De-Placement: Constructing and Mapping Place in Collaboration with Artists. Web Publication on the University of Exeter Digital Collections (Created: 2010-04-30).
Why Italy? In G. Bradley, E. Isayev & C. Riva (eds.) Ancient Italy: Regions Without Boundaries (2007). Exeter: University of Exeter Press, pp. 1-20.
Unruly Youth? The Myth of Generation Conflict in Late Republican Rome. Historia 56 (2007): 1-13.
Archaeology ≠ Object as History ≠ Text. Debates in World Archaeology 38 (2006), pp. 599-610.
The role of the indigenous centres in Lucania and their collapse in the IIIrd c. BC. In E. Lo Cascio & A. Storchi Marino (eds.), Modalità insediative e strutture agrarie nell’Italia meridionale in età romana (2001). Bari: Edipuglia, pp. 107-28.
Scavi di S. Martino, Romagnano Sesia (NO), seconda campagna di scavo (18.8.97 -7.9.97). Bollettino Storico per la Provincia di Novara 89 (1998), pp. 321-336.
Scavi di S. Martino, Romagnano Sesia (NO). Bollettino Storico per la Provincia di Novara 88 (1997), 649-61.
Submissions Accepted for publication: In Press/Forthcoming
Italian perspectives in the period of Gracchan land reforms and the Social War. In K. Lomas & E. Herring (eds), Creating Ethnicities & Identities in the Roman World. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: London. (in Press 2012).
Migration in the Ancient Mediterranean the last two millennia BC. For Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Wiley-Blackwell. (in Press 2012)
‘Human Mobility in Ancient Italy and aspects of globalisation before Empire’, in M. Pitts and M.J. Versluys (eds), Globalisation and the Roman world. CUP: Cambridge. (forthcoming 2012-13).
Italy before the Romans. In A.E. Cooley (ed), Blackwell Companion to Roman Italy. Oxford: Blackwell. (to be submitted 2012).
Chiesa di S. Martino di Breclema, Romagnano Sesia (NO): Site Report for the excavation period 31 August - 11 September 1998. Web Publication on the University of Exeter Digital Collections
An Exploration of Place & Memory in collaboration with art practitioners. (Journal article)
Monograph preparation In Progress
Isayev, E. Paradoxes of Place: Pausing Motion in Ancient Italy.
Monograph for submission to Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context Series in 2012.
The aim is to understand the nature of human mobility in, and through, Italy in the last 500 years BC, and in light of the high levels of population movement, to make explicit what a 'constructed' nature of place means and how the mechanism of its construction affects community membership and identity.
Radio Broadcasts
with others, hosted by Audaye, Politics, migration and place, boundaries and finance
Programme Title: A Head of the Curve
Date of and time of broadcast:Wednesday 14th July 10: 5pm-6pm GMT
Phonic FM 106.8, Devon, UK
http://www.phonic.fm/2010/07/30/politics-migration-and-place-boundaries-and-finance/
with Richard Seaford, hosted by Audaye, Spaces and places from antiquity to present day
Programme Title: A Head of the Curve
Date of and time of broadcast: Friday 24th December 10: 10am-12pm GMT
Phonic FM 106.8, Devon, UK
http://www.phonic.fm/2010/12/24/spaces-and-places-from-antiquity-to-present-day/
Research Students
• Claude Kananack (USA) Cataline’s Co-Conspirators
• Antonio Montesanti (Italy) Borders, limits, thresholds, frontiers: an assessment of the concept of boundary in the Classical World
• Rafael Scopacasa (Brazil) Mortuary practice and socio-cultural identity in the ancient central Apennines (PhD Received 2010)
• Chris Siwicki (UK) ‘“antiquitas decentius innovata” – Antiquity Fittingly Renewed: The Management of Rome’s Monumental Heritage from Sulla to Theodoric.’
• Charlotte Young (UK) Snapshots of Ruins: the use of photoarchaeology as a scientific tool
