Dr Amelia Brown

Biography

Dr Amelia R. Brown is a Greek archaeologist and historian specialising in Late Antiquity, Mediterranean maritime culture and the port cities of the ancient world. Her expertise includes Corinth, Thessalonike and Malta. She is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Macquarie University and a Visiting Senior Associate Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). Dr Brown earned her AB with High Honours in History, Hellenic Studies and Visual Arts from Princeton University in 1999, followed by an MA and PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008, with a dissertation on the history of Corinth in Late Antiquity. Amelia spent 15 years at the University of Queensland as a Senior Lecturer in Greek History and Language, teaching Ancient History, Archaeology and Greek. She also held the Gertrude Smith Professorship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

Amelia’s work is internationally recognised for creatively combining archaeological and historical methods, with a focus on marginalised Greek history. Her 2018 monograph, 'Corinth in Late Antiquity: A Greek, Roman and Christian City,' is a significant publication in the field and she is co-editor of 'Byzantine Culture in Translation', has contributed to major international projects such as Oxford's 'Last Statues of Antiquity' and the Danish-Canadian 'Afterlives of Greek and Roman Sculpture.' Her fieldwork includes excavations at Halasarna (Kos), Polis (Cyprus), Ancient Messene and Corinth. She also conducts museum and archival research in Malta, Thessaloniki and Kos. Her current Australian Research Council-funded project explores Roman mass media, imperial cults and Christian portrait statues, building on her long-term research into how images of power functioned across the Roman Empire.