Academic History

University College London: 1999-

Senior Research Fellow, Department of History; working on the Projet Volterra I (Law and Empire AD193-455) up to 2005; from Sept. 2005 working on Project Volterra II (Law and the End of Empire AD 455-900)

University of Nottingham: 1995-1998

Assistant Archivist in the Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections, Hallward Library

University of Liverpool: 1993-1994

1994    M.Ar.Ad., in Archive Administration

St. John's College, Oxford: 1986-1992

1992    D.Phil.: Thesis entitled 'The Composition and Promulgation of Imperial Pronouncements and the Nature of Government in the Tetrarchic Period, AD 284-324'

Christ Church, Oxford: 1979-1983

1984    B.A.(Hons.) in Literae Humaniores

Award

1998: Henryk Kupiszewski Prize for The Empire of the Tetrarchs: Imperial Pronouncements and Government AD 284-324 (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1996). This was awarded by the Centro romanistico internazionale Copanello at the University of Catanzaro, as a silver medal prize of the IV Premio romanistico internazionale Gérard Boulvert.

Offices Held

Member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (2006-2009)

Recent papers and presentations

‘Observations on some eighth and ninth-century charters’ (Volterra II Colloquium II, Dept. of History, UCL, September 2008)

‘Images of Spartacus’ (History Sixth-Form Summer School: “Slavery, imperialism and colonialism”, Dept. of History, UCL, June 2008)

‘Observations on the Sassanian Law-Book in the light of Roman legal writing’ (Annual Byzantine Colloquium: “Law and Custom”, Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House, London, June 2008)

‘The Gregorianus and Hermogenianus assembled and shattered’ (“Collecting Legal Texts in Late Antiquity” seminar, All Souls College, Oxford, May 2008)

‘Lives of the Codex Iustinianus’ (Volterra II Colloquium I, Dept. of History, UCL, September 2007)

‘Divus Diocletianus?’ (Poster at XIII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae, Oxford, September 2007; revised from 2006 Cambridge paper) [poster on-line at: http://ciegl.classics.ox.ac.uk/html/webposters/21_Corcoran.pdf ]

‘Shall I stay or shall I go?’ (participant on Question Time-style panel, Keele Graduate Research Symposium, Keele Hall, June 2007)

‘New codes for old: Alaric and Justinian revisit Theodosius’ (Unclassical Traditions conference, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, April 2007)

‘Constantine the Great: gaining and governing an empire’ (National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies lecture, Yorkshire Museum, York, October 2006; again in the “Morely Medieval Guest Lectures” series on Constantine, Morley College, Waterloo, London, February 2007)

‘Constantine and the Caesariani’ (Constantine and the Late Roman World Conference, Yorkshire Museum, York, July 2006 [anniversary conference for his proclamation in July 306])

‘The lives of the Lex Dei’ (Departmental Seminar, Dept. of History, University College London, February 2006)

‘Divus Diocletianus?’ (Cambridge Epigraphy Day, Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, January 2006) [report in British Epigraphy Society Newsletter n.s. 15 (Spring 2006) p. 11]

‘Emperors and Caesariani inside and outside the Code’ (XXIX Colloque International de Halma: Code Théodosien 2, Université Lille 3, December 2005)

Teaching 2007/8

Undergraduate

Slavery in the Classical World

Post-graduate (all University of London federal MA courses):

Ancient History “Codes and Practice: the world of Roman law from antiquity to the early middle ages” (taught jointly)

Ancient History “Sources and Methods”: one class on Roman legal sources

Late Antique and Byzantine Studies “Introduction to Byzantium”: one class on Byzantine law

Other Work

Sub-editor on the new edition of the Cambridge Ancient History vol. XII: The Crisis of Empire, AD193-337 (2000-2005)