Dr Daniel Osland

Senior Lecturer

Contact

Office 5N5, Arts Building
Tel +64 3 479 8711
Email dan.osland@otago.ac.nz

Academic qualifications

2011: PhD, University of Cincinnati
2005: MA, University of Cincinnati
2000: BA, Wheaton College (Illinois)

Background and research interests

As a Roman archaeologist, Dan has special interest in research questions that allow him to work with the intersection between material remains and written sources.

Much of his research centres around questions of identity: how individuals and groups define themselves and how they seek to assign identity to "others", especially as illustrated by written and visual media. Recent and ongoing projects focus on economic trends in Late Antiquity, Romans in the Iberian Peninsula, the end of the western Roman empire, the evolution and reuse of Roman religious and public spaces, and changes in dining and food preparation habits in late Roman and post-Roman Hispania.

Teaching

2024

• CLAS 108 Classical Art and Archaeology: Of Heroes, Gods and Men
• LATN 111 Introductory Latin 1

Has also taught

• CLAS 343 Archaeology and the Fall of the Roman Empire
• CLAS 345 Tales of Troy: from Homer to Hollywood
• CLAS 443 Archaeology, History and the End of Rome
• LATN 112 Introductory Latin 2
• LATN 212 Intermediate Latin
• LATN 328 Advanced Latin Authors
• LATN 464 A Topic in Latin Literature

Areas of research supervision

• Greek and Roman archaeology
• Roman provinces
• Late Antiquity
• Roman and Visigothic Spain / Hispania