Dr Jerry Toner

Jerry Toner is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Churchill College,  He is a cultural historian whose work has a focus on history "from below".  His book, Popular Culture in Ancient Rome (Polity, 2009), analysed the life of the non-elite in Roman soceity but he has also written on slavery, ancient disasters and the Games.  His classes encourage collaboration and involve looking at a range of texts and images.  There have been thirty translations of his books into fourteen languages.