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Meet our Staff
Get to know some members of staff of the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University and find out more about their work and research interests.
Meet Associate Professor Katherine McDonald
Katherine McDonald is an Associate Professor at Durham University’s Department of Classics and Ancient History and her main research interests are in the areas of linguistics, multilingualism, bilingualism, and migration in the ancient world. Having recently won the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize for 2024 with her project 'The Linguistics of Roman Slavery', her latest research focusses on enslaved people as language learners in the Roman Empire.
Meet Dr Mara Nicosia
Dr Mara Nicosia, British Academy Newton International Fellow at Durham University’s Department of Classics and Ancient History, explores how Syriac rhetoric formed and developed and how it focuses on the ninth-century Syriac treatise "On Rhetoric", written by the teacher Antony of Tagrit.