Queen's University Belfast | Professor Brian Campbell

Professor Brian Campbell

BA (QUB), DPhil (Oxford)

Professor of Roman History

Exams officer for Ancient History; Joint Pathway Co-ordinator - History and Archaeology; Disability Liaison Officer

Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3153
E-mail: brian.campbell@qub.ac.uk

Office: 16UQ.105

Brian Campbell was educated at Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Oxford and is Professor of Roman History. From 2002 to 2005 he held a Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship to pursue a project on rivers in the ancient world, and in 2005 he was a visiting fellow at All Souls', Oxford. In 2004 he delivered the Broughton Memorial Lecture at the University of North Carolina. He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.

Research Interests

His main research interests lie in the area of the Roman army, ancient military writers, Roman imperial politics, and land survey.

Select Publications

Books:

The Oxford Handbook of Warfare in the Classical World (New York: OUP, 2013)
Rivers and the power of Ancient Rome (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012).
The Romans and their World: A Short Introduction (London: Yale UP, 2012)
Greek and Roman military writers: selected readings (London, 2004).
War and society in Imperial Rome 31 BC–AD 284 (London, 2002).
The writings of the Roman land surveyors: introduction, text, translation and commentary (London , 2000).
The Roman army, 31 BC–AD 337: a sourcebook (Routledge, 1994).
The emperor and the Roman army, 31 BC - AD 235(Oxford, 1984).

Articles and chapters:

'Managing disruptive rivers' in E. Harmon (ed.), Riparia dans l'empire romain (Oxford, 2010)
Chapters 1 & 5 in Cambridge Ancient History, xii (Cambridge, 2005).
‘“Setting up true boundaries”: land disputes in the Roman world’ in Mediterraneo Antico, vii (2005).
‘Power without limit: “The Romans always win”’ in A. Chaniotis and P. Ducrey (eds) Army and power in the ancient world (Stuttgart, 2002).
‘Diplomacy in the Roman world, c. 500 BC–AD 235’ in Diplomacy and Statecraft, xii (2001).