Expert In Residence

Our first 2026 Expert in Residence is
Dr Richard Kendall (University of Exeter)

Dr Richard Kendall is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter and a specialist on the Black Sea. He completed his doctorate, ‘Strategies of Cooperation’, at the University of Edinburgh in 2024, focusing on the meeting of Greeks, Romans and steppe nomads in the city of Olbia, in modern Ukraine, in the early centuries AD.

Richard’s research focuses on the people and places often marginalised in the discipline, such as Scythians and Sarmatians, the homeless in antiquity, and the northern Black Sea and Caucasus region more widely. In 2023, he co-chaired a conference on ‘The Afterlife of the Greco-Persian Wars’ at Kyoto University, Japan, and has presented at several international conferences, perhaps most memorably in a cave in southern Georgia.

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