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Jessica Hughes joined the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University as a lecturer in October 2008. Her teaching contributions to date have included courses on ‘Culture, Identity and Power in the Roman Empire'; 'The Arts Past and Present', and ‘Myth in the Greek and Roman Worlds'.

Prior to coming to the OU Jessica worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Archaeology in Cambridge (2005-2008), on a Leverhulme project called 'Changing Beliefs of the Human Body': you can read about this project online.

Her research centres around ancient religion and the history of the human body in the Graeco-Roman world, with a particular interest in how these broad themes can be illuminated from the perspective of material culture. Her publications include articles on 'Fragmentation as Metaphor in the Classical Healing Sanctuary' (Social History of Medicine 2008, 21/2), and ‘Personifications and the Ancient Viewer: The Case of the Hadrianeum 'Nations'' (forthcoming in Art History, Feb 2009). Jessica is currently finishing a monograph about the votive body parts which were dedicated in sanctuaries across the ancient world, and is also co-editing two interdisciplinary volumes on the subjects of 'Embodied Knowledge and Belief' and 'Bodies in Pieces'.

See also Open Research Online for further details of Jessica Hughes's research publications.