A view of Singleton Campus including Singleton Park and the beach, with the sea stretching into the horizon

Professor Joanne Berry

Professor

Classics

j.t.berry@swansea.ac.uk

Academic Office - 201
Second Floor
James Callaghan
Singleton Campus

Available For Postgraduate Supervision

Research Links

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8212-8440

About

Jo Berry is a Roman historian who specialises in the material culture of Roman Italy, particularly Pompeii and the other cities in the Bay of Naples. She is the author of The Complete Pompeii (Thames and Hudson, 2007), co-editor (with Andrew Wallace-Hadrill) of The Cultural History of the Home: Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2020), and co-editor (with Rebecca Benefiel) of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook to Pompeii and Environs (Oxford University Press).

Jo is School Education Lead for Swansea University's School of Culture and Communication.

Areas Of Expertise

Roman urbanism
Roman material culture, esp. household artefacts
Domestic life and houses
Pompeii and Herculaneum
Roman social history

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Roman history in all periods
Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius
Italy before the Romans
Gender
Roman visual culture

Publications

Research Highlights

Berry, J. (2024). Embedding Wellbeing into the Curriculum: A Global Compendium of Good Practice
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66906
https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/embedding-wellbeing-curriculum-global-compendium-good-practice
Berry, J. & Draper, M. (2024). Change management of assessment: politics of assessment in higher education. In C. Evans and M. Waring (Ed.), Research Handbook on Innovations in Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: Implications for Teaching and Learning Elgar Publishing
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65557
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-innovations-in-assessment-and-feedback-in-higher-education-9781800881594.html
Roberts, L. & Berry, J. (2023). Should open-book, open-web exams replace traditional closed-book exams in STEM? An evaluation of their effectiveness in different disciplines. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 28(28)
https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi28.1030, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65555
Berry, J. & Wallace-Hadrill, A. (Eds.). (2020). A Cultural History of the Home: Antiquity. Bloomsbury.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56169
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-cultural-history-of-the-home-9781472584410/
Berry, J. (2020). Furniture and furnishings in the ancient home. In Joanne Berry and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Ed.), Cultural History of the Home: Antiquity (pp. 81-102). Bloomsbury
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53044

All Research

Journal Articles

Roberts, L. & Berry, J. (2023). Should open-book, open-web exams replace traditional closed-book exams in STEM? An evaluation of their effectiveness in different disciplines. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 28(28)
https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi28.1030, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65555
Berry, J. (2016). Boundaries and control in the Roman house. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 29, 125-141.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa26872
Berry, J. (2002). ‘The early excavations and documentation’, as part of J-A Dickmann and F. Pirson, ‘Die Casa dei Postumii in Pompeji und ihre Insula. Fünfter Vorbericht.’. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Institut – Römische Abteilung, 109, 243-316.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22225
Berry, J. (1997). The conditions of domestic life in AD79: a case-study of houses 11 and 12, Insula 9, Region I. Papers of the British School at Rome, 65, 103-125.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22226

Authored Books

Pollard, N. & Berry, J. (2020). Die Legionen Roms wbg Theiss.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa12688
Pollard, N. & Berry, J. (2015). The Complete Roman Legions Thames and Hudson.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11229
https://thamesandhudson.com/complete-roman-legions-9780500291832
Berry, J. (2013). The Complete Pompeii Thames and Hudson.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21967
Pollard, N. & Berry, J. (2012). The Complete Roman Legions Thames and Hudson.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21968
Berry, J. (2007). The Complete Pompeii Thames and Hudson.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21966

Book Chapters

Berry, J. & Draper, M. (2024). Change management of assessment: politics of assessment in higher education. In C. Evans and M. Waring (Ed.), Research Handbook on Innovations in Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education: Implications for Teaching and Learning Elgar Publishing
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65557
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/research-handbook-on-innovations-in-assessment-and-feedback-in-higher-education-9781800881594.html
Berry, J. (2020). Furniture and furnishings in the ancient home. In Joanne Berry and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Ed.), Cultural History of the Home: Antiquity (pp. 81-102). Bloomsbury
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa53044
Berry, J. (2016). Pompeii by Pebblepad. (pp. 1-6). Pebblepad Learning Ltd
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa36655
Berry, J. (2016). Urbanization. A Companion to Roman Italy (pp. 293-307). Wiley-Blackwell
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21960
Berry, J. (2014). Giuseppe Fiorelli 1823–96 & Amedeo Maiuri 1886–1963: Excavating and Preserving Pompeii. The Great Archaeologists (pp. 124-129). Thames and Hudson
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22223
Berry, J. (2007). The Instrumentum Domesticum. A case-study. The World of Pompeii (pp. 292-301). Routledge
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22224
Berry, J. (1997). Household artefacts: towards a reinterpretation of Roman domestic space. Domestic Space in the Roman world: Pompeii and Beyond. (pp. 183-195). Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 22
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22227

Edited Books

Berry, J. & Wallace-Hadrill, A. (Eds.). (2020). A Cultural History of the Home: Antiquity. Bloomsbury.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56169
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/a-cultural-history-of-the-home-9781472584410/
Berry, J. (Ed.). (2001). Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire, paperback. Routledge.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22218
Berry, J. (Ed.). (1998). Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa22219
Berry, J. (Ed.). (1998). Unpeeling Pompeii. Electa.
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa21993

Other Research Outputs

Berry, J. (2024). Embedding Wellbeing into the Curriculum: A Global Compendium of Good Practice
SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66906
https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/knowledge-hub/embedding-wellbeing-curriculum-global-compendium-good-practice

Supervision

Social performance in the informal economy of the Roman Italian street. (current)

PhD

Other supervisor: Dr Ian Goh

Taught Modules

CC-S00 Year in Industry - School of Culture and Communication

The placement will start in June-August and completes one calendar year later (or thereabouts). Students must complete a minimum of 40 full time (at least 35 hour) weeks on placement with the company (up to two holiday weeks may be counted against this total).
CL-M09 Dissertation in Ancient History and or Classical Literature

Dissertation in Ancient History or an approved Classical subject.
CLD300 Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology Dissertation

Dissertation module for students doing single honours or joint honours degrees in Classics, Classical Civilisation, Ancient History or Egyptology. The aim is for students to do detailed research, to work on a project for several months and to produce a scholarly study of c. 8000-10000 words. The dissertation topic can be chosen freely, in consultation with a member of academic staff and subject to compatibility with a student's degree scheme and availability of supervisors and library material. This is a chance for students to pursue an area in which they are especially interested, and to deal with it in depth. Students may choose to do museum-based research. There are two preparatory pieces of assessment: an abstract, outline and bibliography, and an analysis of crucial source material and/or secondary literature. Work on the dissertation itself takes up most of the two semesters. Students are expected to do research independently, but there is a series of lectures in the first semester to provide advice on research and scholarly writing, Every student will be assigned a supervisor who will be organising group sessions with his/her supervisees and who will also be available for one-to-one supervision sessions.
CLH150 Rome from Village to Empire: An Introduction to Roman History

This module introduces key places, peoples, and institutions that underpin the study of Roman culture and society. It is intended to provide a framework that will form the basis for more specialised study of Roman history at Levels 5 and 6. In addition to introducing key themes about the Roman world, such as imperialism, responses to Roman rule, social and political structures, `othering¿, gender, and religion, it will encourage students¿ critical engagement with a range of primary sources and help to develop their academic writing skills.
CLH267 Gender in the Roman World

The Romans believed that the defining roles of men and women were established right from the foundation of Rome. This course examines how these roles were defined in the literature, art, inscriptions and artefacts of the Roman period. We will look at the legal evidence for male-female relationships and roles, `ideal¿ behaviour, attitudes towards sex, the influence of custom and ancestral behaviour, gendered roles in public life, and what happened when men and women didn¿t behave according to societal expectations
CLH394 Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius

Pompeii is very different from other archaeological sites in terms of its destruction, excavation and preservation. The fact that most of the archaeological evidence from Pompeii relates to a single moment ¿ AD79 ¿ is both its strength and its weakness. This course aims to introduce students to the wealth of evidence from Pompeii that can be used to examine Roman urban life, but also to make them aware of the problems that affect our knowledge and interpretation of this evidence.

Professor Joanne Berry

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Areas Of Expertise

Career Highlights

Research Highlights

All Research

Social performance in the informal economy of the Roman Italian street. (current)

CC-S00 Year in Industry - School of Culture and Communication

CL-M09 Dissertation in Ancient History and or Classical Literature

CLD300 Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology Dissertation

CLH150 Rome from Village to Empire: An Introduction to Roman History

CLH267 Gender in the Roman World

CLH394 Pompeii and the Cities of Vesuvius