Prof Rebecca Sweetman

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2606

Email

rs43@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Greek and Roman Archaeology. Roman and Late Antique Crete and the Peloponnese (especially Sparta). Art and Architecture including; Roman and Late Antique mosaics and architecture of Crete and Greece. Religious architecture. Currently working on a new project on the Cycladic islands in the Roman and Late Antique periods which is funding thanks to a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. This project involves a study of religion and economy by focusing on network analysis.

PhD supervision

• Rebecca Ravenhall
• Mikel Wein
• Rowan Munnery
• Zofia Guertin
• Alison Hadfield
• Arend Bronkhorst

Selected publications

• Networking christians? the spread of christianity in the Eastern Mediterranean

  Sweetman, R., 31 May 2022, Networks and the spread of ideas in the past: strong ties, innovation and knowledge exchange. Collar, A. (ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 229-249 21 p. (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Material culture, museums, and memory: experiments in visitor recall and memory

  Sweetman, R., Hadfield, A. & O'Connor, A., 17 Mar 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Visitor Studies. p. 1-28 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Community, church, and conversion in the prefecture of Illyricum and the Cyclades

  Sweetman, R. J., 21 Feb 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology. Caraher, W. R., Davis, T. W. & Pettegrew, D. K. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Islands and resilience: Christianization processes in the Cyclades

  Sweetman, R. J., 2019, Change and Resilience: The Occupation of Mediterranean Islands in Late Antiquity. Ontiveros, M. Á. C. & Florit, C. M. (eds.). Philadelphia: Oxbow, p. 193-216 (Joukowsky Institute Publication; vol. 9).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Artefact or art? Perceiving objects via object-viewing, object-handling, and virtual reality

  Sweetman, R. J. & Hadfield, A. L., 17 Dec 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: University Museums and Collections Journal. 10, p. 46-66

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  The Cyclades in the late antique period: churches, networks and Christianization

  Sweetman, R. J., Devlin, A. & Iliou, N. P., 1 May 2018, Cycladic Archaeology and Research: New Approaches and Discoveries. Morais Angliker, E. & Tully, J. (eds.). Oxford: Archeopress, p. 215-238

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• A survey of the Aegean Islands in Late Antiquity: review of Deligiannakis, The Dodecanese and the Eastern Aegean Islands in Late Antiquity, AD 300 – 700. Pp. xxii+ 232, ills, maps.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

  Sweetman, R., Apr 2017, In: Classical Review. 67, 1, p. 1710–1711

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Open access

  Networks and church building in the Aegean: Crete, Cyprus, Lycia and the Peloponnese

  Sweetman, R., Nov 2017, In: Annual of the British School at Athens. 112, p. 207-266

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Review of Roman Crete: new perspectives

  Sweetman, R. J., Jul 2017, In: American Journal of Archaeology. 121, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• St Andrews Cathedral Priory - 1318: Fly through of St Andrews Cathedral Priory at St Andrews Cathedral Museum

  Kennedy, S. E., Fawcett, R., Oliver, I. A., Rhodes, E., Sweetman, R. J. & Miller, A. H. D., 1 May 2017

  Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition

 

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