Dr Tim Smith

Academic Subject(s): Classics and Joint Schools

Background

I am a Roman historian specialising in the social and political history of the republic and early empire. I am from Aotearoa–New Zealand. I have a Master of Arts in Classics and another in Literary Translation Studies, both from Victoria University of Wellington. I moved to Oxford to write my DPhil thesis in 2018. I have been a lecturer in Roman history at Oxford since 2021.

Teaching

I teach a wide range of papers on Roman history. I am the convenor for ‘Cicero: Politics and Thought’ and ‘Imperial Culture and Society, c. AD 50-150: Archaeology and History’. I teach all Roman history period papers (from the middle republic to early empire); similar Mods/Prelims papers (such as ‘Tacitus and Tiberius’, ‘Cicero and Catiline’, ‘Sallust, Jugurtha’, and the new paper on ‘People and Politics in the Roman Republic, 58–52 BCE’, for which I am co-convenor); and ‘Texts and Contexts’.