Classics, University of Birmingham
Thesis title:
Salisbury, B. (2021). MARIA L. CALDELLI and CECILIA RICCI (EDS), CITY OF ENCOUNTERS: PUBLIC SPACES AND SOCIAL INTERACTION IN ANCIENT ROME (RomeScapes: Social and Cultural Topographies of the City of Rome). Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020. Pp. 279. isbn 9788854910577. £22.80/€25. Journal of Roman Studies, 1-2. doi:10.1017/S0075435821000290
Salisbury, B. (2019), 'The Status of Plebiscita 494-287', New Classicists, 1, pp. 41-58.
CONFERENCES PRESENTED AT
| 2019 | Spaces of Roman Constitutionalism, University of Helsinki, (26th-28th September 2019), (an international conference for doctoral candidates, early career researchers and senior scholars), Part of the ERC funded 'Law, Governance, and Space: Questioning the Foundations of the Republican Tradition' project. Paper title: 'Defining a Public Sphere at Rome in the Late Roman Republic'. |
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The Popular in Classical Antiquity Graduate Student Conference, University of Pennsylvania (26th April 2019). Paper title: 'Reconsidering the Language of Popular Public Opinion in the Late Roman Republic'. Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History, Cambridge (16th March 2019). Paper title: 'Public Opinion in the Late Roman Republic: Public Spirit, Emotional Appeals, and Collective Decision Making'. | |
| 2018 | Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History, Birkbeck University of London (17th March 2018). Paper title: 'For the Many (and the Few): The place of the lex Gabinia de bello piratico and the lex Manilia in studying popular sentiment'. |
CONFERENCES ORGANISED
| 2020 (Upcoming) | Co-organiser: Cicero Away Day XI, University of Birmingham (June 2020). |
| 2019 | Co-organiser: Meaning, Memory, and Movement: Ancient & Medieval Spaces, University of Birmingham (23-24th November, 2019). |
| August 2019 | Contributor to University of Birmingham's Outreach project: Classics in the Classroom, led by Dr Theofili Kampianaki. Produced 3 videos for use on OCR and AQA A Level syllabi. Video topics: cursus honorum, bodies of the res publica, and the tribunate of the plebs. |
| May 2019 | The Language of Public Opinion in the Late Republic, Poster presented at the Annual Departmental Colloquium, Department of Classics, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham. |
| March 2019 - Present | Special Editions Editor for New Classicists Journal. |
| March 2019 | Co-organised the event 'Going abroad for postgraduate research' for PGR students in the College of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham. |
| Nov 2018 - Present | Presentation at the University of Birmingham to prospective PhD students on how to secure a PhD place and apply for PhD funding. |
| Sep 2016 – Sep 2017 | MA Representative on the Student Staff Liaison Committee for the Department of Classics and Ancient History. |
University of Birmingham
| Oct 2019 – Dec 2019 |
One semester as sole seminar leader for the Level 2 course unit: The Age of Cicero. Responsible for teaching two seminars comprised of all enrolled students, as well as marking formative essays and holding office hours.
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| October 2018 | Seminar Leader for the seminar "Classical Historiography" in week 2 of the Level 2 module Ancient and Medieval History in Theory and Practice. |
University of Manchester
| Sept 2017 – April 2018 | Acting as a PG mentor for Level 3 students working within the Roman Republic. Responsible for responding to students' queries, advising on specific approaches, and attending group dissertation meetings. |
| Sept 2017 – Jan 2018 | One semester as a seminar leader for the Level 3 course unit: The Early Roman Republic. Responsible for teaching two seminars per week and 40% of the total marking (23/62 students). |
| Arts and Humanities Research Council | |
| Oct 2018 – Sept 2021 | Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Studentship: £14,777 per annum, £4,260 tuition fees per annum. |
| July 2019 |
Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Student Development Fund: £4766.13 – to cover my travel, accommodation and stipend extension while undertaking the role of visiting research student at Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain (January – March 2020). Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Research Training Support Grant: £635 – to attend and present at the conference, Spaces of Roman Constitutionalism, University of Helsinki (September 2019). |
| June 2019 | Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Cohort Development Fund: £3,828.99 – to organise and host the conference Meaning, Memory, and Movement: Ancient and Medieval Spaces, University of Birmingham, (November 2019). |
| March 2019 | Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership Student Development Fund: £734 – to attend and present at the conference, The Popular In Classical Antiquity, University of Pennsylvania (April 2019). |
| The Mrs Anderson Travel Fund (University of Manchester) | |
| Dec 2017 - March 2018 | £130 – for attending two conferences (Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History) in London (Kings College London & Birkbeck University of London). |
| June 2017 | £150 – to attend a two-day workshop on epigraphy, University of Lincoln. |
| Others | |
| September 2019 | The Classical Association Small Conference Grant: £450 – for the conference Meaning, Memory, and Movement: Ancient and Medieval Spaces, University of Birmingham, (November 2019). |
| Sept 2016 | University of Manchester Alumni Scholarship: £3,000 (fee reduction). |
| April 2020 -May 2020 (Upcoming) |
Enrolled on the annual 'City of Rome Postgraudate Course' at the British School in Rome. Project Title: Tribunes of the Plebs and the Public Sphere at Rome in the Late Republic. Course Director: Dr Robert Coates-Stephens |
| Jan 2020 – March 2020 (Upcoming) |
Visiting Research Student (AHRC M4C Research Placement) Universidad Pablo de Olavide; Universidad de Zaragoza Project Title: Tribunes of the Plebs and Public Engagements with Public Opinion Supervisors: Dr Cristina Rosillo-López; Prof. Francisco Pina Polo
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| Sept 2019 – Nov 2019 | Assistant on the AHRC funded project on political oratory, Crisis of Rhetoric (Project Leads: Dr Henriette van der Blom & Prof. Alan Finlayson). |
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