Tim Parkin
Tim Parkin is Professor of Ancient History at the University of
Manchester (United Kingdom).
Previously (2004-6), he was Professor of Classics and Ancient History
at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia), and before that
(1998-2004) he was Professor of Classics at the University of
Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand). Before moving to Christchurch,
he had been on the staff at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW),
from 1989 to 1998.
Tim studied as an undergraduate at VUW, and then went on
(or, as the English say, up) as a Rhodes Scholar to the University of Oxford,
where he completed his D.Phil. in 1992; he also studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa.
In 1997 he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the Institut fuer Altertumskunde of
the University of Koeln (Cologne, Germany), and in 2002 he was on leave as a member of the
Senior Common Room of St. John's College, Oxford (England).
Tim's teaching is primarily within the area of ancient history, as well as Latin and ancient Greek language courses.
In 2002 he was voted University lecturer of the year by the Canterbury Students' Association.
Tim has published on various aspects of ancient social history, including
Demography and Roman Society (Johns Hopkins UP, 1992).
His book
Old Age in the Roman World,
also published by Johns Hopkins,
appeared in hardback in 2003, and in paperback in 2004.
Tim's most recent book is Roman Social History: A Sourcebook
(with Arthur Pomeroy of Victoria University of Wellington), published by Routledge (2007).
Tim is currently working on a number of projects relating to the Roman family, the life course, Roman law, and sexual health in antiquity.
Tim was administrative Head of Department at Canterbury Classics from 1998 to 2001,
and served on Canterbury's Academic Staffing Committee, as well as being a member of Academic Board.
In 2002-3 he was deputy director of the University of Canterbury's Organisational Structure Project,
and within that project was chair of the Teaching and Learning working group,
as well as being a member of the People working group.
In 2003 he also served on the University's "senior management team",
as one of the academic staff representatives. In 2005/6 he was head of discipline at UQ.
Tim was ClAH's head of department ('subject leader') 2010-12. He is currently on research leave.
A final note: although living overseas,
Tim is still an active supporter of the NZ All Blacks.
A few webpages relating to research and teaching:
Researching ancient wonders (designed originally for the NZACT
conference in Wellington, 2001).
Selected Older
Individuals from Graeco-Roman Antiquity.
An index locorum for
Tim Parkin's
Old Age in the Roman World: A Cultural and Social History
(Johns Hopkins UP, 2003; paperback 2004).
A bibliography for Roman social history.
Some contact details:
Mailing address: Department of Classics and Ancient History, School of Arts, Histories, and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.
Office: Samuel Alexander Building, S2.24
Phone: +44(0)161 275 3099
Email: tim.parkin@manchester.ac.uk
My webmail.