Dr Edward Herring

Dean of Arts

College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, Arts Millennium Building
Phone: 091 493383
E-mail: edward.herringnuigalway.ie

Edward Herring joined the staff of NUI Galway in 2002, having previously worked at various institutions in London. In 2009 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer. He studied for both his B.A. and Ph.D. at Queen Mary College, University of London. His primary research interest is in Iron Age and Classical south Italy, and in particular the relations between the Greek, Roman and Native (Italic) populations. A practising archaeologist, he has worked extensively on excavations and field surveys in the Western Mediterranean, notably on an Iron Age to Roman Republican site at Botromagno, Gravina-di Puglia (BA), south Italy, on a multi-period field survey in the Po plain (Progetto Alto-Medio Polesine - Basso Veronese), and most recently on a multi-period survey based in northern Puglia, south Italy ( UCL/NUIG Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project).

He is Senior Research Fellow of the Accordia Research Institute, London, and also one of the editors of Accordia Research Papers, its journal. In addition, he serves as NUI Galway's representative on the Council of the Classical Association of Ireland and chairs the Royal Irish Academy  Committee for Classical and Near Eastern Studies. In April 2006 he was elected to the fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He is the current holder of the A. D. Trendall Fellowship at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London.

Select Publications

Books

Botromagno. Excavation and Survey at Gravina in Puglia, 1979-1985 (with R. D. Whitehouse and J. B. Wilkins). Accordia Research Institute, University of London. 2000.

Explaining Change in the Matt-Painted Pottery of Southern Italy. Social and cultural explanations for ceramic development from the 11th to the 4th centuries B.C. British Archaeological Reports International Series 722, Oxford. 1998.

Articles

"Does ethnicity matter in colonial situations? The case of South Italy." In Identity Crisis: Archaeological Perspectives on Social Identity. Proceedings of the 42nd (2010) Annual Chacmool Archaeology Conference, edited by L. Amundsen-Mayer, N. Engel and S. Pickering, Chacmool Archaeological Association, Calgary 2011, pp. 143-156.

"Diomedes and Daunia: a Greek origin story for a south Italian place". Accordia Research Paper 11, 2009, pp. 81-94

"Where are they hiding? The invisibility of the native women of Puglia in the fourth century BC". In Gender Identities in Italy in the First Millennium BC, edited by E. Herring and K. Lomas, British Archaeological Reports International Series 1983, Oxford 2009, pp. 25-35.

"Ethnicity and Culture". In A Companion to Ancient History, edited by A. Erskine. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2009, pp. 123-33.

"Greek traders in native contexts in Iron Age Southern Italy: from interaction to marginality". Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 21.1 (2008): 111-32.

"Daunians, Peucetians and Messapians? Societies and settlements in South-East Italy". In Ancient Italy: regions without boundaries, edited by G. Bradley, E. Isayev and C. Riva, University of Exeter Press, Exeter 2007, pp. 268-294.

"Priestesses in Puglia? An archaeological perspective on the Messapic tabara inscriptions". In Literacy and the State in the ancient Mediterranean, edited by K. Lomas, R.D. Whitehouse and J.B. Wilkins, Accordia Research Institute, University of London 2007, pp. 129-147.

"Identity crises in SE Italy in the 4th c. B.C.: Greek and native perceptions of the threat to their cultural identities". In Roman by Integration: Dimensions of Group Identity in Material Culture and Text, edited by R.E. Roth and J. Keller, Journal of Roman Archaeology Suppl. 69, Portsmouth (RI) 2007, pp. 11-25.

"Phenomenology in practice: towards a methodology for a 'subjective' approach" (with S. Hamilton, R.D. Whitehouse, K.A. Brown, P. Combes & M. Seager Thomas). European Journal of Archaeology, 9.1 2007, 31-71.

"Age, time, nudity, ethics and economics: conventions in the work of the Prisoner Painter". In Across Frontiers: Etruscans, Greeks, Phoenicians and Cypriots. Studies in honour of David Ridgway and Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway, edited by E. Herring, I. Lemos, F. Lo Schiavo, L. Vagnetti, R. Whitehouse and J. Wilkins, Accordia Research Institute, University of London 2006, pp. 225-235.

"Sleeping with the enemy. Mixed residency patterns in pre-Roman South Italy". In Papers in Italian Archaeology VI. Communities and Settlements from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval Period. Volume 1, edited by P. Attema, A. Nijboer and A. Zifferero, British Archaeological Reports International Series 1452 (I), Oxford 2005, pp. 292-301.

"Body art and the Daunian stelae". In Inhabiting Symbols. Symbol and image in the ancient Mediterranean, edited by J.B. Wilkins and E. Herring, Accordia Research Institute, University of London 2003, pp. 121-136.

"To see ourselves as others see us. The construction of native identities in southern Italy". In The emergence of state identities in Italy in the first millennium B.C., edited by E. Herring and K. Lomas, Accordia Research Institute, University of London 2000, pp. 45-77.

"Wealth, wine and war: some Gravina tombs of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C." (with R.D. Whitehouse and J.B. Wilkins). In Ancient Italy in its Mediterranean Setting. Studies in honour of Ellen Macnamara , edited by D. Ridgway, F.R. Serra Ridgway, M. Pearce, E. Herring, R.D. Whitehouse and J.B. Wilkins, Accordia Research Institute, University of London 2000, pp. 235-256.

"Using your religion. Native ritual and belief in Southern Italy in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C." In Approaches to the Study of Ritual. Italy and the ancient Mediterranean, edited by J.B. Wilkins, Accordia Research Institute, University of London 1996, pp. 142-183.

"Emblems of identity. An examination of the use of Matt-Painted pottery in the native tombs of the Salento peninsula in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C." In Papers of the Fifth Conference of Italian Archaeology, Settlement and Economy, 1500 B.C.- A.D. 1500, edited by N. Christie, Oxbow Books, Oxford 1995, 135-142.

"Socio-political change in the South Italian Iron Age and Classical periods: an application of the peer polity interaction model." Accordia Research Papers, 2, 1991, pp. 31-54.

"Power relations in Iron Age Southeast Italy". In Papers of the Fourth Conference of Italian Archaeology 2. The Archaeology of Power, Part 2, edited by E. Herring, R.D. Whitehouse and J.B. Wilkins, Accordia Research Institute, University of London 1991, pp. 117-133.

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