Kevin S Lee
My research interests, broadly conceived, are cities and urbanism in the ancient Mediterranean world, apprehended within wide cross-cultural comparative and interdisciplinary frameworks. I approach this from an interdisciplinary angle, using ancient literature, history, and the archaeological record to illuminate each other.
As a Master's student at the University of British Columbia, I further developed my particular interest in pre-Roman Italy, while cultivating related ones in ancient state formation, the Greek polis, the applicability or otherwise of modern theoretical frameworks to ancient urbanism. I also developed interests in the history of scholarship on the city, the phenomenology of ancient urban spaces, the Roman Empire in its mediaeval (aka, Byzantine) phase, and the archaeology of North America.
In 2016 I completed my M.A. in Classical Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. My thesis was a defense of urbanism among the Samnites of ancient Italy in light of the textual and archaeological records.
In Fall 2017 I began doctoral study in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, where I continue developing the above interests.
Supervisors: Dr. Franco De Angelis, Dr. Kevin Fisher, and Dr. Matthew McCarty
Phone: (860) 861-8817
As a Master's student at the University of British Columbia, I further developed my particular interest in pre-Roman Italy, while cultivating related ones in ancient state formation, the Greek polis, the applicability or otherwise of modern theoretical frameworks to ancient urbanism. I also developed interests in the history of scholarship on the city, the phenomenology of ancient urban spaces, the Roman Empire in its mediaeval (aka, Byzantine) phase, and the archaeology of North America.
In 2016 I completed my M.A. in Classical Archaeology at the University of British Columbia. My thesis was a defense of urbanism among the Samnites of ancient Italy in light of the textual and archaeological records.
In Fall 2017 I began doctoral study in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, where I continue developing the above interests.
Supervisors: Dr. Franco De Angelis, Dr. Kevin Fisher, and Dr. Matthew McCarty
Phone: (860) 861-8817
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This paper was written for Dr. Kevin Fisher's Fall 2014 graduate seminar on space and place in the ancient (primarily Mediterranean and Near Eastern) world. It was written at the same time as that for Dr. Franco De Angelis' seminar on Greek state formation. The two papers complement each other by tackling Morgantina using different approaches.
This paper was developed as part of a group project in Dr. Franco De Angelis' Fall 2014 graduate seminar on the formation of the Greek polis. Each student chose a topic in the areas of settlement, economy and society that bear upon state formation at Morgantina and were expected to make use of each other's research. As such, this paper cites student presentations (in particularly that of Brad Morrison on demography) in addition to published academic sources.
Originally written for Dr. Charmaine Gorrie's graduate seminar on the art and architecture of the Severans at UBC, this paper addresses both problems by considering the urban programs of Elagabalus and Alexander Severus at Rome as expressions of the sacerdotal, dynastic, and beneficent duties expected of each emperor. It contains the first buddings of some ideas the author would like to play around with and develop further regarding thematics in urbanism and motivations for building.
This was my senior thesis submitted for a B.A. in Classical Studies from Creighton University (thesis advisor: Dr. Erin Averett).
This paper was written for Dr. Kevin Fisher's Fall 2014 graduate seminar on space and place in the ancient (primarily Mediterranean and Near Eastern) world. It was written at the same time as that for Dr. Franco De Angelis' seminar on Greek state formation. The two papers complement each other by tackling Morgantina using different approaches.
This paper was developed as part of a group project in Dr. Franco De Angelis' Fall 2014 graduate seminar on the formation of the Greek polis. Each student chose a topic in the areas of settlement, economy and society that bear upon state formation at Morgantina and were expected to make use of each other's research. As such, this paper cites student presentations (in particularly that of Brad Morrison on demography) in addition to published academic sources.
Originally written for Dr. Charmaine Gorrie's graduate seminar on the art and architecture of the Severans at UBC, this paper addresses both problems by considering the urban programs of Elagabalus and Alexander Severus at Rome as expressions of the sacerdotal, dynastic, and beneficent duties expected of each emperor. It contains the first buddings of some ideas the author would like to play around with and develop further regarding thematics in urbanism and motivations for building.
This was my senior thesis submitted for a B.A. in Classical Studies from Creighton University (thesis advisor: Dr. Erin Averett).