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Dr Sally Waite

Senior Lecturer in Greek Art and Archaeology

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5330
Background

I am a Classical Archaeologist working to develop and promote the at the . My research focuses primarily on Attic red-figure pottery and the long history of collecting and collections. I have published and exhibited on the collection, and supervise a number of PhD candidates working in related topics (see 'Research' tab). I teach a range of undergraduate and postgraduate classes across Classics, Archaeology and History (see 'Teaching' tab). 


Current and Ongoing Projects

Voicing Objects and The Way my Body Feels - with Dr Olivia Turner.

Material Culture of Infant Feeding - With  I am preparing to publish details and analysis of infant feeding bottles from Antiquity, in the Great North Museum: Hancock and a number of other international collections. 

The Shefton Archive Project - I am leading a large ongoing project, relating to the history of one of the U.K.'s largest collections of Greek and Etruscan archaeology. The project aims to uncover the complete history of the collection, and to reconstruct an intellectual biography of its founder. The project will collate and disseminate the late Professor Brian Shefton's personal archive of correspondence, slides, scholarly materials and items pertaining to the history of his collection. 

Community Curriculum Project - A collaboration with CfLaT, the Great North Museum: Hancock, West Jesmond Primary School and Belsay School to create a curriculum for teaching Ancient Greece at Key Stage 2. Resources available on the new  website. 





Research

Research, Conferences, Exhibitions and Events


Current Research

  • Voicing Objects and The Way My Body Feels

An ongoing collaboration with Dr Olivia Turner.

  • Material Culture of Infant Feeding Along with  I am preparing to publish details and analysis of infant feeding bottles from Antiquity, in the Great North Museum: Hancock.
  • The Shefton Archive Project I am leading a large ongoing project, relating to the history of one of the U.K.'s largest collections of Greek and Etruscan archaeology which is currently housed in the GNM. The project aims to uncover the complete history of the collection, and to reconstruct an intellectual biography of its founder. The project will collate and disseminate the late Professor Brian Shefton's personal archive of correspondence, slides, scholarly materials and items pertaining to the history of his collection.
  • Community Curriculum Project A collaboration with CfLaT, the Great North Museum: Hancock, West Jesmond Primary School and Belsay School to create a curriculum for teaching Ancient Greece at Key Stage 2. Resources available on the new website. 


Previous Research Projects

  • Shining a Light on Women and Children in Antiquity (AHRC CapCo funded project).
  • Re-collecting Cypriot Antiquity In collaboration with Anna Reeve, Leeds University, I have been researching objects in the Kent Collection, Harrogate, which previously belonged to Thomas Sandwith, the British Vice-Consul on Cyprus from 1865-1870. A. Reeve and S. Waite (2021) 'Re-collecting Cypriot Antiquity: The Kent Collection in Harrogate.' Journal of the History of Collections. 
  • Etruscan Art and Archaeology in the Shefton Study Collection
  • Regional Survey of Greek Material in the North East
  • Shefton Cataloguing Project
  • Community Curriculum: Employing Artefacts in the Hospital-Based Education of Children


Conferences

  • Colour, Texture and Sound: Experiencing the Ancient World. A conference in collaboration with the and the Great North Museum funded by the Hellenic Society.
  • The resulting book is published by
  • - This international conference, held in conjunction with the Great North Museum: Hancock, brought together scholars of Classics, Archaeology and Ancient History, the publication co-edited with Dr Sadie Pickup is now published by . 


Exhibitions

  • 2025 Delving Behind the Display 2
  • 2024 Delving Behind the Display 1
  • 2024 Voicing Objects, Great North Museum
  • 2023 Digital exhibition in collaboration with the Great North Museum
  • 2022-2023 You Echo Through Time, Great North Museum
  • 2022 The Way My Body Feels Great North Museum 
  • 2021  Digital exhibition in collaboration with the Great North Museum
  • 2020  Digital exhibition in collaboration with the Great North Museum and English Heritage
  • 2019 Collecting Classical Antiquity: Brian B. Shefton 100 Years, Great North Museum
  • 2019 Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Footwear through the Ages, Great North Museum
  • 2018, Belsay Hall, Northumberland
  • 2017 Community Curriculum in Action, Great North Museum 
  • 2015 Beyond Frontiers, Great North Museum and Jesmond Library
  • 2014 , Royal Pump Rooms Museum, Harrogate
  • 2013 On the Fascination of Objects, Great North Museum


Events

  • 2025


PhD Supervision

I am currently lead supervising two PhD students:

Emily Jayne Knights: Material identities of women in Athens from 5th-3rd BC: an intersectional analysis of gender, ageing and social identities in the extended life course.

Zoe Stokes-Paizis: Gender Ideologies in Classical Athens: Feminine Imagery on Perfume and Cosmetics Vessels (5th – 4th centuries BCE).



COMPLETED 2016

Monica Haysom: The Little Metropolis Festival Calendar Frieze: A Study of Reason and Religion in Late Hellenistic Athenian Society

COMPLETED 2019

Nigel Porter: Images of Warrior Departure on Athenian Painted Pottery 600-400 BC

COMPLETED 2021

Emma Gooch: The Material Culture of Children in Ancient Greece: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Identity

COMPLETED 2023

Daisy-Alys Vaughan: The Shefton Vases: Diversifying a Collection’s History Through Extended Object Biographies



Teaching

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • ARA3121 Sex, Bodies and Identities in Classical Greece

Contributions to:

  • CAC1012 Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology
  • CAC1014 Tragedy, Comedy, History: The World of Greek Literature
  • CAH1012 West meets East: Greek History and Society, 776-200 BC
  • ARA1027 Introduction to Archaeology
  • HCA1007 Stuff: Living in a Material World
  • HIS2322 Diversities of Sexuality and Gender in History


I supervise dissertations in Classical Studies, Ancient History and Ancient History and Archaeology.


Postgraduate

  • ARA8129 Sex, Bodies and Identities in Classical Greece

Contributions to:

  • ARA8394 Past Bodies
  • ARA 8025 Artefacts


I supervise dissertations and independent studies in topics related to Greek art and archaeology.




 


 






 
Publications

  • Articles

    • Waite S, Gooch E. . Childhood in the Past 2023, 16(2), 84-109.
    • Reeve A, Waite S. . Journal of the History of Collections 2021, 33(2), 359-372.

  • Authored Book

    • Waite S. . Harrogate Borough Council, 2014.

  • Book Chapters

    • Turner O, Waite S. . In: Shapiro, L, ed. Graphic Medicine, Humanizing Healthcare and Novel Approaches in Anatomical Education. Cham: Springer, 2023, pp.231-249.
    • Waite S, Gooch E. . In: Pickup,S; Waite,S, ed. Shoes, Slippers and Sandals: Feet and Footwear in Classical Antiquity. Routledge, 2019, pp.17-89.
    • Waite S. . In: Rodríguez Perez, D, ed. Greek Art in Context. London: Routledge, 2017.
    • Waite S. . In: Boardman, J; Parkin, A; Waite, S, ed. On the Fascination of Objects: Greek and Etruscan Art in the Shefton Collection. Oxbow Books, 2015.
    • Waite S. ‘The Shefton Pan Painter Pelike’. In: Kaltas, N; Shaprio A, ed. Worshiping Women. Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens. Onassis Foundation, 2008.

  • Edited Books

    • Pickup S, Waite S, ed. . Routledge, 2019.
    • Boardman J, Parkin A, Waite S, ed. . Oxbow Books, 2015.

  • Review

    • Waite S. Review of Daehner (J.) (ed.) The Herculaneum Women. History, Context, Identities. Classical Review 2009, 59.2, 592-594.