Tony Potter

I am a PhD student in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University. I hold a BA in History, and an MA in Classical Studies, both also from the OU. 

My doctoral thesis, supervised by Professor Phil Perkins and Dr E-J Graham, is entitled ‘Sensory Experience in the Funerary Assemblages of Etruscan Cerveteri.’ My research is primarily concerned with the examination and interpretation of Caeretan funerary assemblages, how the multi-sensory experiences they generated contributed to, and changed, the ancient lived experiences of death and burial over time in the southern Etruscan city of Caere (modern day Cerveteri). My research utilises and adapts methodologies developed in Sensory Archaeology and Lived Ancient Religion and is underpinned by a theoretical approach known as Deleuzian New Materialism (Assemblage Theory).