Dr Janette McWilliam

Senior Lecturer

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
j.mcwilliam@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 52650

Overview

Research Interests

  • Research Interests
    My research interests include Ancient Material Culture, Greek and Roman Social, Cultural and Political History, Roman Children and Women, Roman Art, Roman Law, Ancient Medicine, Latin Epigraphy, Cultural Identities in the Ancient world, Pedagogical Approaches to teaching Classical Latin and Greek and Museum Studies. I am currently working on projects on Roman Children, the pedagogical approaches to the teaching of Classical Languages, particularly through the use of colour, and First World War Antiquities Collections. I run an International Museum Internship Program and Field School in Italy, and a curatorial internship Program in the R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge
  • Masters (Coursework), Australian National University
  • Bachelor (Honours) of Arts, Australian National University

Publications

  • McWilliam, Janette, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Gerolemou, Maria, Galluzzo, Gabriele, Boden, Marie, Pounds, Pauline and Mann, Charlotte (2022). Wondrous Machines Opening Event. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Pounds, Pauline, Donaldson, James, Mann, Charlotte and Boden, Marie (2022). Wondrous Machines: Hero of Alexandria's Ancient Automata. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette and Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2022). Wondrous Machines: VIP Preview and Curator Talk. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

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Grants

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Supervision

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Available Projects

  • I am available to supervise in the broad area of Greco-Roman social and cultural history ( you can't extract politics!), pedagogical appraches to teaching Latin, Greek and Ancient History, and Museology. I am particularly interested in gender, women, children, slavery, medicine, food, law, epigraphy, spectacle, sensory perception) and I work with a range of different ancient sources, including texts, material culture, inscriptions, art & architecture, archaeology.

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Publications

Book

  • Janette McWilliam, Sonia Puttock, Tom Stevenson and Rashna Taraporewalla eds. (2011). The statue of Zeus at Olympia: New approaches. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Book Chapter

  • McWilliam, Janette (2021). Children in Roman religion and ritual. Children in antiquity: perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean. (pp. 370-384) edited by Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315542812-30

  • McWilliam, Janette (2016). African 'Sigillata Piriform Jug’. Fifty Treasures: Classical Antiquities in Australian and New Zealand Universities. (pp. 92-93) edited by Ronald T. Ridley, Bruce Marshall and Kit Morrell. Melbourne, Australia: The Australasian Society for Classical Studies.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2016). The University of Queensland. The R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum. Fifty Treasures: Classical Antiquities in Australian and New Zealand Universities. (pp. 85-85) edited by Ridley, Ronald T., Marshall, Bruce and Morrell, Kit. Melbourne: The Australasian Society for Classical Studies.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2015). Introduction. Cyprus: an island and a people. (pp. 1-1) edited by Janette McWilliam. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2014). Columbarium. A Study in Stone. (pp. 28-31) edited by Janette McWilliam. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2014). In focus: Via Appia. A Study in Stone. (pp. 43-43) edited by Janette McWilliam. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2014). Introduction. A Study in Stone. (pp. 7-8) edited by Janette McWilliam. St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2013). The socialization of Roman children. The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World. (pp. 264-285) edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Tim Parkin and Roslynne Bell. New York , United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199781546.013.013

  • McWilliam, Janette, Puttock, Sonia, Stevenson, Tom and Taraporewalla, Rashna (2011). Introduction. The statue of Zeus at Olympia: New approaches. (pp. 1-8) Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2011). The statue of Zeus at Olympia in western imagination via the internet. The statue of Zeus at Olympia: New approaches. (pp. 209-222) edited by Janette McWilliam, Sonia Puttock, Tom Stevenson and Rashna Taraporewalla. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2001). Children among the dead: The Influence of urban life on the commemoration of children on tombstone inscriptions. Childhood, class, and kin in the Roman world. (pp. 74-98) edited by Suzanne Dixon. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

  • McWilliam, Janette, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Gerolemou, Maria, Galluzzo, Gabriele, Boden, Marie, Pounds, Pauline and Mann, Charlotte (2022). Wondrous Machines Opening Event. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Keenan-Jones, Duncan, Pounds, Pauline, Donaldson, James, Mann, Charlotte and Boden, Marie (2022). Wondrous Machines: Hero of Alexandria's Ancient Automata. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette and Keenan-Jones, Duncan (2022). Wondrous Machines: VIP Preview and Curator Talk. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland, R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette and Donaldson, James (2019). Contested histories VIP preview and curator talks. R.D Milns Antiquties Museum, University of Queensland: R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette and Donaldson, James (2019). Contested histories: photographs from Mandate Palestine in the JH Iliffe Collection. R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum, University of Queensland: R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Smith, Rebecca (2018). Dionysos: Portrait of a god. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2018). Dionysos: Portrait of a god. Exhibition Opening Curator Talk. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Smith, Rebecca (2018). Dionysos: Portrait of a god. VIP Preview and Curator's Talk. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Smith, Rebecca (2018). Exhibition Opening Event, Curators. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Malik, Shushma, Donaldson, James and Smith, Rebecca (2016). Useless Beauty Up Late: Jewellery in the Ancient and Modern World. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Malik, Shushma and Andersen, David (2016). Useless Beauty: Luxury and Rome. Brisbane, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Smith, Rebecca (2016). Cyprus an Island and a People Public Programs: Cyprus Up Late. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Smith, Rebecca (2016). New Minor Exhibition Preview: Egypt, Land of the Pharoahs and the Owen Powell OAM Medical Collection. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2016). Marble Tombstone of Vitalis. Fifty Treasures: Classical Antiquities in Australian and New Zealand Universities. (pp. 90-91) edited by Ronald T. Ridley, Bruce Marshall and Kit Morrell. Melbourne, Australia: The Australasian Society for Classical Studies.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Smith, Rebecca (2015). Cyprus an Island and a People Public Programs: Doing Archaeology on Modern Cyprus. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Powell, Judith and Donaldson, James (2015). Cyprus an Island and a People Public Programs: Curator Panel. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Smith, Rebecca (2015). Cyprus an Island and a People: Special Exhibition Opening. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Christou, Sandra and Powell, Judith (2015). Cyprus, an Island and a People [Curated Exhibition]. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Smith, Rebecca and Malone, Christopher (2015). Lemuria: Festival of Mysteries. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Brown, Amelia, Christou, Sandra and Powell, Judith (2015). Cyprus: An Island and a People. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Dowdell, Jessica (2014). The R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum Saturday Series Public Lecture 4: Australian Antiquities Collections. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Dowdell, Jessica (2014). The R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum Saturday Series Public Lecture 3: The Grand Tour. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Press, Daniel and Dowdell, Jessica (2014). The R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum Saturday Series Public Lecture 2: Roman Epigraphy and its Collection. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Press, Daniel and Dowdell, Jessica (2014). A Study In Stone: Exhibition Preview 1, 2014. RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Blanshard, Alastair, Donaldson, James and Press, Daniel (2014). A Study in Stone: The History of Epigraphy. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Press, Daniel and Dowdell, Jessica (2014). A Study In Stone: Exhibition Previews 2, 2014. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Dowdell, Jessica (2014). The attitudes of Lady Emma Hamilton. Brisbane, QLD, Australia:

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Press, Daniel and Dowdell, Jessica (2014). Lemuria: A Festival of Witches. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • Ratcliffe, John, McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Dowdell, Jessica (2014). The R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum Saturday Series Public Lecture 1: Ancient Medicine. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Press, Daniel and Dowdell, Jessica (2013). Lemuria: A Festival of Death. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James and Press, Daniel (2013). Then and Now: 50 Years of Antiquities, 1963-2013. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Press, Daniel and Dowdell, Jessica (2012). Saturnalia: Museum Night 2012. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Press, Daniel and Dowdell, Jessica (2012). Vertumnalia. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette, Donaldson, James, Press, Daniel and Dowdell, Jessica (2012). Lemuria: Ghosts, Death and Funerary Practices. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: RD Milns Antiquities Museum, The University of Queensland.

  • McWilliam, Janette (2011). UQ Latin website. UQ website: University of Queensland.

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Master Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

  • Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

    Other advisors:

  • Master Philosophy — Associate Advisor

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Completed Supervision

Possible Research Projects

Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.

  • I am available to supervise in the broad area of Greco-Roman social and cultural history ( you can't extract politics!), pedagogical appraches to teaching Latin, Greek and Ancient History, and Museology. I am particularly interested in gender, women, children, slavery, medicine, food, law, epigraphy, spectacle, sensory perception) and I work with a range of different ancient sources, including texts, material culture, inscriptions, art & architecture, archaeology.