Matthew Cobb

Darlithydd yn y Clasuron
Matthew Cobb

Cefndir

Enillodd Dr Matthew Cobb ei PhD o Brifysgol Abertawe ym mis Ebrill 2012 ac wedyn daeth yn ddarlithydd mewn Clasuron yn PCYDDS. Yn ystod y cyfnod hwn, mae wedi cyhoeddi nifer o lyfrau, wedi golygu penodau ac erthyglau, gan gynnwys y monograff Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade: From Augustus to the Early Third Century CE (2018) a’r llyfrau a olygodd: The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, Cultural and Economic Impacts (2019); a Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World (2022). 

Pynciau Arbenigol

  • Mae ymchwil Dr Matthew Cobb yn canolbwyntio ar berthynas ddiwylliannol ac economaidd rhwng Môr y Canoldir Groegaidd-Rufeinig a gofod Cefnfor India. Mae ganddo hefyd ddiddordebau ehangach mewn Hanes Byd-eang Hynafol. Mae ei arbenigedd ymchwil yn cynnwys:
  • Defnyddioldeb cysyniadau damcaniaethol sy'n gysylltiedig â globaleiddio, globaleoleiddio a thrawsddiwyllianoldeb, ymhlith eraill.
  • Cyfnewid traws-ddiwylliannol
  • Diaspora
  • Syniadau Groegaidd-Rufeinig o'r Dwyrain
  • Y defnydd o nwyddau Cefnfor India o fewn cymdeithas Rhufain
  • Y fasnach sbeis yn yr Henfyd

Profiad Proffesiynol a/neu Ymchwil

Mae Dr Matthew Cobb wedi cyhoeddi dros 30 o erthyglau, golygu penodau a llyfrau, yn ogystal â threfnu a chyd-drefnu amrywiaeth o gynadleddau, gweithdai a phaneli. Yn ogystal, mae'n Gynghorydd (partner cydweithredol) ar brosiect a ariennir gan Gyngor Ymchwil Norwy: Like Islands in a Sea of Sand (Dr Tomas Larsen Høisæter yw’r Prif Ymchwilydd).

Mae Dr Cobb wedi goruchwylio myfyrwyr PhD ac MRes hyd gwblhad llwyddiannus ac mae'n parhau i weithredu yn gyfarwyddwr astudiaethau (prif oruchwylydd) a goruchwyliwr cefnogol ar gyfer nifer o fyfyrwyr OR ar hyn o bryd.

Mewn rôl broffesiynol/weinyddol, ar hyn o bryd mae'n rheolwr rhaglen ar gyfer yr MA Hanes yr Henfyd, MA Gwareiddiadau’r Henfyd, MA Crefyddau’r Henfyd, MA Y Clasuron, Dipolma OR mewn Groeg a Lladin a'r PGCert yn Lladin.

Cymwysterau

  • PhD, Hanes yr Henfyd, Prifysgol Abertawe (Dyfarnwyd: 2012)
  • MA, Hanes yr Henfyd a Gwareiddiad Clasurol, Prifysgol Abertawe (Teilyngdod – Dyfarnwyd 2007)
  • BA (Anrh.) Hanes yr Henfyd, Prifysgol Abertawe (Dosbarth Cyntaf – Dyfarnwyd 2006)

Ieithoedd a Siaradwyd

Iaith gyntaf Dr Cobb yw Saesneg, ond mae ei ymchwil a'i addysgu hefyd yn golygu darllen Hen Roeg a Lladin, yn ogystal â darllen ysgolheictod mewn ychydig o ieithoedd tramor modern.

Aelodaeth Broffesiynol neu Rôl

Mae Dr Cobb yn Uwch Gymrawd AU Uwch

Addysgu Academaidd

Dolen i Broffil Orcid

Proffil Ymchwil ORCID

Cyhoeddiadau Proffesiynol

  • Monograff:
  • Cobb, M. A. 2018: Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade: From Augustus to the Early Third Century CE. Leiden: Brill.
  • Llyfrau a olygwyd:
  • Autiero, S. and M. A. Cobb (eds.), 2022: Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Cobb, M. A. (ed.), 2019: The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, Cultural and Economic Impacts. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Rhifyn arbennig cyfnodolyn (golygydd gwadd):
  • Cobb. M. A. (guest editor) 2023: ‘Travellers, traders and diaspora in Antiquity: networks and nodes across the Indian Ocean and Eurasian world’, Special Issue of the Journal of Global History, volume 18, Issue 3.
  • Erthyglau cyfnodolion a phenodau mewn llyfrau a olygwyd:
  • Cobb, M. A. 2025: ‘The hill and forest products of the Tamiḻakam: Communication and exchange between Southern India and the Roman World’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2025.2485733
  • Cobb, M. A. 2025: ‘The Palmyrene Merchant Diaspora in Egypt’, in Michael Sommer, Stefano Magnani and Antonietta Castiello (eds.), Palmyrenes Abroad. Diasporas from Rome to Mesopotamia and Beyond, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 155–170.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2024: ‘Reconsidering the Role of Gemstones in the so-called Indo-Roman Trade’, in Thierry De Putter and Christina Karlshausen (eds.), Minerals in Egypt, from Naqada to Alexandria. International Conference: Brussels, 3-4 October 2022, Bruxelles: Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, pp. 241-261.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2024: ‘Spices in the Ancient World’, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780197762530.013.43
  • Cobb, M. A. 2023: ‘Diplomacy and (Mis)comprehension in the Ancient Indian Ocean: Gift-Giving and Ritual as a Form of Communication’, Topoi. Orient - Occident Supplément 26 (1): 27–58.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2023: ‘Introduction: Connecting the Ancient Afro-Eurasian World’, Journal of Global History 18.3: 329-342.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2023: ‘Indian Merchants Abroad: Integrating the Indian Ocean World during the early first millennium CE’, Journal of Global History 18.3: 365-383.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2023: ‘The Palmyrene Diaspora in Egypt: Dependency, Sustainability and Reuse’, R. Raja and N. Andrade (eds), Exchange and Reuse: Economy and Circularity at Roman Palmyra, Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 8. Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 113-129.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2023: ‘APOLLONIUS IN INDIA: THE VITA APOLLONII AND THE INDOGRAPHIC TRADITION’, The Classical Journal 118 (4): 440–473.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2022 ‘World-Systems Theory, Globalization or Glocalization? Analysing the Dynamics of the Ancient Indian Ocean Ivory Trade’, Topoi. Orient - Occident Supplément 18: 169–97.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2022: ‘Black Pepper Consumption and the Middling in Roman Society: Affordability, Availability and Status’, in Pierre Schneider and Jean Trinquier (eds.), Le poivre, fragments d'histoire globale : Circulations et consommations, de l'Antiquité à l'époque modern, Paris: Hermann, pp. 71–92.
  • Cobb, M. A. and Wilkinson, T: 2022. ‘The Roman state and Red Sea trade revenue’ in Caroline Durand, Julie Marchand, Bérangère Redon and Pierre Schneider (eds.), Networked spaces: the spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean, Archéologie(s) 8, MOM Éditions, Lyon, pp. 213–226.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2022: ‘From Bronzization to “world system”: Globalization and Glocalization across the Globe (2000 BCE-1500 CE)’, in V. Roudometof and U. Dessi (eds.), Handbook of Culture and Glocalization. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp 28–44.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2022: ‘Mediterranean goods in an Indian context: the use of transcultural theory for the study of the ancient Indian Ocean world’, in S. Autiero and M. A. Cobb (eds.), Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World. London: Routledge, pp. 165–182.
  • Autiero, S. and M. A. Cobb, 2022: ‘Introduction: utilizing globalization and transculturality for the study of the pre-modern world’, in S. Autiero and M. A. Cobb (eds.), Globalization and Transculturality from Antiquity to the Pre-Modern World. London: Routledge, pp. 1–15.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2021: ‘"Barbarians" and Blemmyes: Who Was in Control of the Red Sea Port of Berenike in the Late Antique Period?’, Journal of Late Antiquity 14 (2): 267–293.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2021: ‘Conceptualising the Far West: Early Chinese Notions of Da Qin and the Indian Ocean Trade’, in Himanshu Prabha Ray (ed.), The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 56–78.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2020: ‘Palmyrene Merchants and the Red Sea Trade’, in Michael Sommer (ed.), Inter duo Imperia: Palmyra between East and West. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, pp. 65–83.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2019: ‘Peoples of the Eastern Desert of Egypt and their impact on the Red Sea trade (first to third centuries CE)’, Ancient West & East 18: 85–112.
  • Cobb, M. A. and Mitchell, F. 2019: ‘Eros at Junnar: Reconsidering a Piece of Graeco-Roman Art’, Greece & Rome 66 (2): 203–226.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2019. ‘Introduction: The Indian Ocean in Antiquity and Global History’, in Cobb, M. A. (ed.), 2019: The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, Cultural and Economic Impacts, pp. 1–14.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2019: ‘From the Ptolemies to Augustus: Mediterranean integration into the Indian Ocean Trade’, in Cobb, M. A. (ed.), The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity: Political, Cultural and Economic Impacts, pp. 17–51.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2018: ‘Black Pepper Consumption in the Roman Empire’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 61 (4): 519–559.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2016: ‘The Decline of Ptolemaic Elephant Hunting: An Analysis of the Contributory Factors’ Greece & Rome 63 (2): 192–204.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2015: ‘The Chronology of Roman Trade in the Indian Ocean from Augustus to Early Third Century AD’, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 58 (3): 362–418.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2015: ‘Balancing the Trade: Roman Cargo Shipments to India’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 34 (2): 185–203.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2014: ‘The Exchange of Goods from Italy to India during the Early Roman Empire: The Range of Travelling Times’, Ancient West & East 13: 89–116.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2013: ‘The Reception and Consumption of Eastern Goods in Roman Society’, Greece & Rome 60 (1): 136–52.
  • Erthyglau ar gyfer cynulleidfa boblogaidd/ehangach:
  • Cobb, M. A. 2024: ‘The Hunt for Elephants: Pachyderms in the Ptolemaic Army’, Ancient History 48 (Karwansaray Publishers): 36-39.
  • Michel, R., A. Karenowska, G. Altshuler and M. A. Cobb, 2020: ‘A Vexed Pharmacopeia: Musings on Two Thousand Years of Scholarship Regarding the Ancient Spice Trade’, Arion 28 (1): 1-29.
  • Cobb, M. A. 2017: ‘India in the Early Greek Imagination’, ARGO: A Hellenic Review 5 (1): 6-8.
  • Sgyrsiau/papurau ymchwil (8 mlynedd ddiwethaf):
  • “Primordial fears: How ancient Red Sea and Indian Ocean mariners coped with the psychological and practical dangers posed by the sea” – Understanding connections and mobility in the ancient and medieval world workshop ym Mhrifysgol Kyoto, 28 Mai 2025.
  • “Tracing travellers across the Late Antique Red Sea and Indian Ocean”, sgwrs i Seminar Ymchwil y Clasuron a Hanes yr Henfyd Newcastle, 13 Tachwedd 2024.
  • Long-term strategy or responding to new realities? The northern Red Sea from Trajan to Diocletian” – Roman Transport Infrastructure: Revisiting the Via Nova Traiana workshop ym Mhrifysgol Aarhus, 10 Hydref 2024.
  • “The Blemmyes, revenue collection and the octava: some speculative reflections” – cynhadledd Red Sea XI, Barcelona Mehefin 2024.
  • “Ground up Spices: Investigating the Role of the Marginalised and Unseen in the Distribution, Processing and Consumption of Spices and Aromatics During the Roman Imperial Period” – Invisible Economies conference, Rhagfyr 2023.
  • “From Patala to the Barbarikon: Alexander’s legacy and the role of the Indus region in Indian Ocean trade networks of the early to mid-centuries CE” – Alexander on the Indus, Endowment Fund Trust for Preservation of the Heritage of Sindh conference, Karachi, 22-24 Chwefror 2023.
  • “Diplomacy and (mis)comprehension in the Antique Indian Ocean: gift-giving and ritual as a form of communication” – cynhadledd Ex Oriente Luxuria 5, Arras, 6-7 Rhagfyr 2022.
  • “The hill and forest products of the Tamilakam communication and exchange between southern India and the Roman world” – Of Exotic Plants, Wild Beasts and Precious Gems: The Trade and Use of South Asian Forest Products across the Indian Ocean (Late Prehistory to Early Colonial Period), Gweithdy Rhyngwladol, Prifysgol Ghent, 26 Hydref 2022.
  • “Reconsidering the role of precious and semi-precious stones in the so-called Indo-Roman trade” – cynhadledd Minerals in Ancient Egypt, from Naqada to Alexandria, Palace of the Academies (Brwsel), 3-4 Hydref 2022.
  • “The Imperial to the Late Antique Red Sea: reconsidering the Third Century CE as phrase of decline, break or transition” – cynhadledd Red Sea X, Rethymno Crete, 6-9 Gorffennaf 2022.
  • “The Palmyrene Diaspora in Egypt: Dependency, Sustainability and Reuse” – Exchange and Reuse: cynhadledd Economy and Circularity at Roman Palmyra, Prifysgol Aarhus, 11-12 Hydref 2021.
  • “World-Systems Theory, Globalization or Glocalization – analysing the dynamics of the ancient Indian Ocean ivory trade?” – cynhadledd Ex Oriente Luxuria 4, Lille, 11-12 Mawrth 2021.
  • Black pepper: a status marker for the middling in the Roman world? – Ancient Spice Conference, Samarkand, Chwefror 2020
  • “Barbarians” and Blemmyes: who was in control of the Red Sea branch of the Indian Ocean trade at the end of Antiquity? – Cynhadledd Indian Ocean World Archaeology, Caerwysg, 10-11 Ionawr 2020
  • Medicine and the ancient spice trade – Medicine and Trade in the Classical World, Caergrawnt, 9-10 Medi 2019.
  • (cyd-drefnydd a chyd-gadeirydd panel Archaeoleg Globaleiddio) – papur o'r enw: Mediterranean goods in an Indian Context: The use of transcultural theory for the study of the Ancient Indian Ocean world – European Archaeological Association, Y Swistir, 4-7 Medi, 2019.
  • Integrating the wider Indian Ocean World: Connectivity between the Roman Empire and the Tamilakam – gweithdy Centre for Connectivity in the Roman World– 18 Mehefin, 2019.
  • Conceptualising the Far West: Early Chinese Notions of Da Qin and the Indian Ocean Trade - Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World, symposiwm deuddydd Yn Amgueddfa Ashmolean wedi’i drefnu gan yr Athro Himanshu Prahba Ray yn rhan o’r OCHS, Rhydychen – 29 i 30 Tachwedd, 2018.
  • Using Globalisation to Conceptualise the Ancient Indian Ocean World (300 BCE to 700 CE) – Re-Thinking Globalisation in the Ancient World, Llambed – 10-12 Mai, 2018 (wedi cyflwyno hefyd bapur rhagarweiniol fel trefnydd y gynhadledd).
  • Palmyrene Merchants and the Red Sea Trade - PALMYRA. ORIENT. OKZIDENT., Oldenburg – 16-17 Mawrth, 2018.
  • Haute cuisine or staple fare? Black Pepper’s Role as a Status Marker in the Roman World – 3edd gynhadledd Ex Oriente luxuria, Paris – 23-25 Tachwedd, 2017.
  • A Marginalised Sea: Indigenous Cultures and Trade Systems in the Red Sea – Danish Institute in Rome – gwahoddwyd i roi papur ar Bobloedd Anialwch Dwyreiniol yr Aifft a'u heffaith ar fasnach y Môr Coch (o’r ganrif gyntaf i'r drydedd ganrif OG) – 3-5 Hydref, 2017.
  • Wedi trefnu, gweithredu fel cadeirydd, a chyflwyno papur, ar gyfer panel ar fasnach Cefnfor India yn yr Henfyd, yng Nghynhadledd Geltaidd IX y Clasuron (Mehefin 2016). – wedi derbyn £500 o gyllid gan y Gymdeithas Glasurol, a hefyd £500 gan Gronfa Donald Atkinson (Y Gymdeithas er Hyrwyddo Astudiaethau Rhufeinig).
  • Prosiectau:
  • Ymgynghorydd prosiect (partner cydweithredol) ar gyfer: Like Islands in a Sea of Sand. Understanding the Silk Roads of Late Antiquity as a layered network model. Perchennog y Prosiect (Prif Ymchwilydd) yw Dr Tomas Larsen Høisæter. Wedi'i ariannu gan Gyngor Ymchwil Norwy.
  • Ymgysylltu â'r Cyhoedd/Allgymorth:
  • Cyfrannwr gwadd i bennod o raglen Making History ar BBC Radio 4. Roedd hon yn bennod ar Fwyd a ddarlledwyd yn wreiddiol am 15:30 ddydd Mawrth 7 Ionawr, 2020.
  • Ymddangosodd fel cyfrannwr arbenigol ym mhennod 6 ail dymor Finding Jesus: Fact, Faith, Forgery. Teitl y bennod yw 'Doubting Thomas'. Darlledwyd hyn ar CNN yn America yng ngwanwyn 2017. Ymgynghorwyd â mi am fy ngwybodaeth am fasnach Cefnfor India yn y ganrif gyntaf OC.
  • Sgyrsiau i ddisgyblion Ysgol Uwchradd a chweched dosbarth sy'n astudio Gwareiddiad Lladin a Chlasurol yn Ysgol Ramadeg Dartford – Ionawr 2016, Ionawr 2017, ac Ebrill 2018.

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