Connor Hickey

Connor Hickey is a PhD candidate in Classics and Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. He completed his BA in History and Classics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (2015-2018) before attaining an MA in Classics (2018-2020) from the same institution. Under the supervision of Dr Jonathan Davies, Connor's MA thesis examined the socio-political origins of provincial unrest in Roman Britain and Judaea in the first-century C.E.

His dissertation explores the Roman conception of internal unrest and revolt as represented in Latin historiography. In particular, Connor is concerned with examining the ideological structures of the textual corpus, and how this discourse of revolt can shed further light on Roman attitudes towards empire, the subaltern, and the 'civilizing mission' of the imperial project. This thesis is supervised by Professor Myles Lavan.

Connor previously worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Maynooth's Department of Ancient Classics (2019-2020) and served as Student Rep. for the Classical Association of Ireland (2020-2021). After a short period working in the Public Service in Ireland, Connor moved to Scotland in 2022 to undertake a PhD at St Andrews. 

His research interests centre mainly on the socio-political and cultural history of the Later Roman Republic and Early Principate, with particular focus on:

• Imperial ideology and the language of empire, 
• Violence, unrest and resistance to Roman imperialism, 
• The Roman discourse of civil war, and
• Latin historiography.