Jamie Wood

I am a Professor of History and Education in the School of Humanities and Heritage. I specialise in the social, cultural and religious history of the late antique and early Medieval Mediterranean, particularly Spain. I’ve worked on history-writing, identity, education, cultural memory, and violence in this period. I've published extensively on the writings of Isidore of Seville and on the Iberian episcopacy more generally. I am currently working on a monograph on the Byzantine presence in the Iberian Peninsula in the sixth and seventh centuries. I am working on two other research projects at present: (1) the church and the economy in late antique and early medieval Gaul and Hispania; (2) connections between the Byzantine world and the Atlantic from 500-700.
I’d be interested in supervising PhD, MA and undergraduate dissertations in any of these areas.

In 2019 I became co-investigator on a 3-year Arts and Humanities Research Council Research Grant, "Doctrine, devotion and cultural expression in the culture of medieval Iberian saints" (AH/S006060/1), led by Professor Emma Hornby of the University of Bristol.

I am co-convenor of History UK, the independent national body promoting and monitoring History in UK Higher Education, funded by History departments across the country. I act as treasurer for the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. Since summer 2019, I have been chair of the City of Lincoln Branch of the Historical Association. I sit on the boards of the following journals: Early Medieval Europe; Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies; Al-Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean. I am also editor of the Amsterdam University Press series, Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Iberia. I am a member of the education committees of both the Royal Historical Society and the Council for University Classics Departments.

In October 2011 I finished a Leverhulme Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowship entitled ‘Cultivating Conflict in Late Roman Spain’ in Religions and Theology at the University of Manchester and then taught there for 18 months. I have also lectured in History, Classics and Ancient History, and Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the Universities of Sheffield, Warwick and Liverpool. I became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and from January-June 2014 I was a visiting lecturer at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz. I have also researched at the Universities of Salamanca, Santander and Granada in Spain. In May 2015 I became a visiting fellow of the John Rylands Research Institute, at the University of Manchester, working on a project entitled “To be the neighbour of San Pedro: Divine Judgement in tenth century northern Spain”. From 2016-2017 I held a British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant, "Formative Spaces: Making monks in early medieval Iberia". While on research leave in 2019, I held fellowships at the Universidade Nova in Lisbon (funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation) and at the University of Tuebingen (funded by the Centre for Advanced Studies “Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”).

I am School Director of Learning and Teaching and Assessment Officer. I convene a third year module called Making Militants on education and violence in late antiquity and co-convene a second year module called The World of Late Antiquity. In addition, I lead an MA module on hagiography called Saints and Scholars. I teach on a wide range of other undergraduate and postgraduate modules.

In terms of teaching, I’m particularly interested in the role of active, inquiry-based and online pedagogies in higher education, as well as digital pedagogies for teaching history. I have presented and published widely on all of these topics. From 2007-2009 I worked as an educational developer at the Centre for Inquiry-based learning in the Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. I am Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I’m interested in supervising dissertations on late antique and early medieval history (pre-1000), particularly on education and learning, history-writing, violence in social relations, Spain, the Goths, Byzantium, connectivity in the late antiquity and the early middle ages, and identity construction and manipulation.
Phone: +44(0)1522 887389
Address: School of Humanities,
University of Lincoln,
Brayford Pool,
Lincoln LN6 7TS