Christopher Smith
After a doctorate at Oxford on Early Rome and Latium from 1000 to 500 BC, Christopher moved to the University of St Andrews in 1992. In 2006 he was appointed Vice-Principal with responsibility for graduate studies and student services. His research interests are focused on the development of Rome as a political and social community, and on how this was represented in ancient historical writing and subsequent political thought. He is one of the editors of a major new edition of the Fragmentary Roman Historians. Christopher first came to the BSR in 1990, and was the 2006-7 Hugh Last Fellow before returning as Director in 2009.