Ballot Archive

22 Jun 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Matthew Nicholls

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MPhil, DPhil

Profession or occupation

Senior Tutor, St Johns College University of Oxford, Visiting Professor of Classics, Reading University

Grounds for election

Professor Nicholls has published widely on the buildings, contents, layout & networks of the Classical world’s great libraries. Ongoing research on the City of Rome and its built environment has lead to a layered digital reconstruction allowing 3D immersive exploration of interior and exterior spaces. This collaborative work has produced teaching tools engaging varied audiences with the Classics. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy 2017. Many works include “Public libraries in the cities of the Roman Empire” in G. Woolf, J. König, & K. Oikonomopolou (eds.) Ancient Libraries, 2013; ‘Galen & Libraries in the Peri Alupias’ Journal of Roman Studies (2011); 'Bookish places in Imperial Rome: bookshops & the urban landscape of learning” in S. Adams (ed.) Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic & Roman Eras, 2019. Architectural modelling work with Foster + Partners (2021) was used in museums in Narbonne, London & Amsterdam.

Signatories

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