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
2023
- CLAS 108 Classical Art and Archaeology: Of Heroes, Gods and Men
- 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 111 Introductory Latin 1
Has also taught
- 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
Publications
Osland, D. (2017). Evidence for Roman and medieval occupation inside the Alcazaba de Mérida, University of Otago excavations in Mérida, Spain, 2016. University of Otago Studies in Archaeology, No. 28. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, 61p.
Osland, D. (2006). The early Roman cities of Lusitania. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress, 135p.
Osland, D. (2019). Text and context: Patronage in late antique Mérida. Studies in Late Antiquity, 3(4), 581-625. doi: 10.1525/sla.2019.3.4.581
Osland, D. (2017). Housing in late antique Augusta Emerita: The end of the peristyle house. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 36(1), 85-106. doi: 10.1111/ojoa.12107
Osland, D. (2016). Abuse or reuse? Public space in late antique Emerita. American Journal of Archaeology, 120(1), 67-97. doi: 10.3764/aja.120.1.0067
Osland, D. (2017). Evidence for Roman and medieval occupation inside the Alcazaba de Mérida, University of Otago excavations in Mérida, Spain, 2016. University of Otago Studies in Archaeology, No. 28. Dunedin, New Zealand: Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, 61p.
Authored Book - Research
Osland, D. (2006). The early Roman cities of Lusitania. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress, 135p.
Authored Book - Research
Osland, D. (2019). Text and context: Patronage in late antique Mérida. Studies in Late Antiquity, 3(4), 581-625. doi: 10.1525/sla.2019.3.4.581
Journal - Research Article
Osland, D. (2017). Housing in late antique Augusta Emerita: The end of the peristyle house. Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 36(1), 85-106. doi: 10.1111/ojoa.12107
Journal - Research Article
Osland, D. (2016). Abuse or reuse? Public space in late antique Emerita. American Journal of Archaeology, 120(1), 67-97. doi: 10.3764/aja.120.1.0067
Journal - Research Article
Osland, D. (2016). Tribute and coinage in the Visigothic Kingdom: On the role of the bishop. ANAS: Museo Nacional De Arte Romano [2011], 24, 71-95.
Journal - Research Article
Osland, D. (2012). Documenting change in late antique Emerita through the ceramic evidence. Journal of Late Antiquity, 5(2), 322-344. doi: 10.1353/jla.2012.0012
Journal - Research Article
Osland, D. (2017). Informe de la excavación arqueológica realizada en la Alcazaba de Mérida. Commissioned by Consorcio de Mérida, Spain. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. 44p.
Commissioned Report for External Body
