Ellen Swift

Ellen Swift FSA
Academic work
Discipline	Archaeology
Sub-discipline	Classical archaeology
Institutions	University of Kent
Main interests	Roman Britain Roman North-Western provinces, Roman Egypt Roman jewellery and dress accessories, Roman and late antique artefacts

Ellen Swift FSA is a British archaeologist and Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Kent.

Swift is a specialist in material culture studies of the Roman world, including dress accessories and functional artefacts including dice. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in October 2005. In 2001, the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference formed a standing committee to oversee the conference, consisting of Swift, Martin Carruthers, Carol van Driel-Murray, Andrew Gardner, Jason Lucas, and Louise Revell. The committee also edited the proceedings for the 2001 conference.

Publications

• Swift, E. (2017). Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour and Experience. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Swift, E. (2009). Style and Function in Roman Decoration: Living with Objects and Interiors. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
• Swift, E. (2003). "Transformation in Meaning: Amber and Glass Beads Across the Roman Frontier", Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Canterbury 2002. 48–57. doi:10.16995/TRAC2002_48_57
• Swift, E. (2000). Regionality in Dress Accessories in the Late Roman West. Montagnac: Editions Monique Mergoil.
• Swift, E. (2000). The End of the Western Roman Empire: An Archaeological Investigation. Stroud: Tempus.

External links

• Staff profile at the University of Kent
• Interview with Ellen Swift on the Coffee & Circuses podcast