Dr Tamar Hodos

BA (Bryn Mawr), MA (London), DPhil (Oxon)

Senior Lecturer in Archaeology

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dr Hodos is a specialist in the archaeology of the Mediterranean during the Iron Age.  Her areas of focus have been Sicily, Italy, Turkey and North Africa, and encompass themes such as post-colonial perspectives, globalisation, and identity. 

She is also an expert in the archaeology of Turkey, especially of the first millennium BCE.  She is co-director of the Çaltılar Archaeology Project in Lycia, which is identifying for the first time the later Bronze and Early Iron Ages in this region of the Mediterranean. Previously, she worked for many years at Kinet Höyük (Hatay).

Dr Hodos has served on the editorial board of Anatolian Studies. 

RECENT MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

• (2011) with N. Momigliano, A. Greaves, B. Aksoy, A. Brown, M. Kibiroglu, T. Carter. Settlement History and Material Culture in Southwest Turkey: report on the 2008-2010 survey at Çaltılar Höyük. Anatolian Studies 61: 61-121.
• (2010) edited with S. Hales. Material Culture and Social Identities in the Ancient World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
• (2010) Local and Global Perspectives in the Study of Social and Cultural Identity. In S. Hales and T. Hodos, eds. Material Culture and Social Identities in the Ancient World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 3-31.
• (2010) Globalization and Colonization: a view from Iron Age Sicily. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 23.1: 81-106.
• (2009) Colonial Engagements in the Global Mediterranean Iron Age. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19.2: 221-41.
• (2008) Relative Ceramic Densities in the North-Eastern Mediterranean Iron Age. Olba 16: 57-72.
• (2007) Writing more than Words in Iron Age Sicily. In K. Lomas, R. Whitehouse and J. Wilkins, eds. Literacy and State Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean (London: Accordia Research Institute) 77-97.
• (2006 hardback; 2008 paperback) Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean (London: Routledge).
  
  

TEACHING

Dr Hodos teaches all levels of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the department.

At postgraduate level, she is currently supervising the following dissertations:           

• P. Steer: Laocoon: A Roman Interpretation of the Hellenistic Baroque.
• C. Holland:  Foreign Influence on Etruscan Architecture.

Past students include:

• J. Wilson (PhD 2010; AHRC-funded) Becoming Irish: The Materiality of Transcultural Identities in the Later Irish Iron Age.
• A. Brown (PhD 2009; Bristol University Scholarship-funded) The Iron Age Troad: migration and colonisation in the 12th-6th centuries BC.
• T. Gambin (PhD 2005; Bristol University Scholarship-funded) The Maritime Landscapes of  Malta from the Roman Period to the Middle Ages.        

What Dr Hodos’s students say about her:

“My supervisor, Dr Tamar Hodos, is a rare individual with a dedicated professionalism and a unique talent for getting the very best possible from her students.”

“She always finds time to engage with us and knows how to balance critical assessment with positive encouragement.” 

“Her generosity with her time and her commitment to guiding me through the research process will be remembered long after the work is completed. I am greatly indebted to her.”

Dr Hodos was awarded the Faculty Teaching Prize for excellence in education in 2006-2007.