Clare Parry

(she/her)

BA (Hons), MPhil, FHEA

Publication

• Date
• Type

Research

• Assyriology
• Achaemenid Empire
• Late Pharaonic Egypt
• Biblical Studies
• Iconography and Material Culture
• Shahnameh studies
• Warfare and violence
• Imperial Studies

Outreach

Step Up Tutor (November 2024-Present)

Research Assistant, Tweeting the War (May 2024-March 2025)

PGR Member, Cardiff and Vale Classical Association Branch (2023-present)

SHARE with Schools Postgraduate Co-Ordinator (November 2020-December 2024)

Research Assitant, Civic Mission Project on 1800 Merthyr Tydfil Riots, Dr Marion Loeffler (2021-2022)

SHARE with Schools volunteer (2017-2020)

Public Engagement Officer, Firing Line Museum of the Welsh Soldier (2019)

Teaching

• Graduate Tutor
  
  • The Near East, Greece, and Rome, 1000-323 BCE (2022-2023, 2023-2024)
  • Empires East and West, 323 BCE-680 CE (2021-2022, 2022-2023; 2024-2025)
  • Ancient Objects Then and Now (2022; 2023; 2024) - 'Reading Violence in Art' and 'Cyrus the Great'
  • Investigating the Ancient World: Skills and Evidence (2023-2024; 2024-2025)
  • Archaeology of Mediterranean Societies (2024-2025)
• Step-Up Tutor
  • Humanties Tutor for Step-Up, Widening Participation and Outreach
• SHARE with Schools Outreach (November 2020-December 2024)
  • Digital outreach workshops. 
  • In-person outreach in schools - full days of workshops.
  • Organising and running return visits.
  • Stand at the Festival of Social Science.
  • Stand at Cardiff Science Festival.
  • Facilitating workshops alongside geophysical surveys on Trelai field.
  • Stand at Passport to the City, Primary Schools Graduation.
• Being Human Festival
  
  • Stands for SHARE with Schools and Tweeting the War, Cardiff West High School - 2024
  • Archaeo-Animal Art Event - 2023
• Tweeting the War (2024)
  • School workshop on Herodotus and Thucydides.
  • Return visit to the university on social media and ancient history.
• SHARE with Schools Return Visits (2019)
  • Mountain Ash and Cathays High visited the university for 1 day each.
  • I ran a workshop I developed on Achaemenid Tribute Processions.

Biography

I read Ancient History at Cardiff University (2017-2020) before completing a Master of Philosophy in Ancient History at the same institution (2020-Feb 2022). I am currently undertaking a PhD at Cardiff University with Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Dr Dylan Johnson (2022-Present). 

Honours and awards

• HEA Fellow (2025)
• Nominee for Graduate Tutor/Demonstrator of the Year, Enriching Student Life Awards 
• HEA Associate Fellow (2022)
• Outstanding Contribution to the Cardiff University Student Mentor Scheme (2020)
• Student Mentor of the Year, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University (2019)
• Duke of Edinburgh Awards: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond (2013-2017)

Professional memberships

• Classical Association (2023-Present)
• Royal Historical Society (2022-Present)
• British Institute of Persian Studies (2020-Present)

Academic positions

• Step-Up Tutor, Widening Participation (November 2024-Present)
• Graduate Tutor (February 2022-Present)
• Research Assistant, Tweeting the War Civic Mission and Website design (May 2024-March 2025)
• SHARE with Schools Postgraduate Coordinator (November 2020-December 2024)
• Research Assistant, Civic Mission Project on the 1800 Merthyr Tydfil Riots (October 2021-March 2022)

Speaking engagements

CONFERENCES

• Cardiff University - 15th Celtic Conference in Classics - 9th-12th July 2024
  • Paper title: To Be Seen Or Not To Be Seen: The Iconography of Royal Women in Neo-Assyria. Panel strand: Near Eastern and Classical Conceptions of Dynasty and Rulership.
• Cardiff University - Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History 2024 - 18th-19th April 2024
  • Paper title: An Iconographic Exegesis of Warfare and Violence in the Oracles Against the Nations, Isaiah 14:24-24.
• Malta Classics Association and the Department of Classics and Archaeology, University of Malta - Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History 2023 - 23rd-24th March 2023
  • Paper title: Communicating Power and Legitimacy? Dynastic Display in Ancient Persia and the Near East.
• Cardiff University – Breaking Boundaries 2021
  • Poster Theme: An Iconographic Exegesis of Warfare and Violence in the Oracles Against the Nations, Isaiah 14:24-24.
• Cardiff University – Universities of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History, 19^th-20^th November 2021
  • Paper Title: An Iconographic Exegesis of Warfare and Violence in the Oracles Against the Nations, Isaiah 14:24-24.
•  Lancaster University – Lancaster Historical Postgraduate Conference, 17^th-18^th June 2021
  • Paper Title: An Iconographic Exegesis of Warfare and Violence in the Oracles Against the Nations, Isaiah 14:24-24.

RESEARCH SEMINARS/LECTURES

• Cardiff University - SHAREing Showcase - 13th June 2024
  • Paper Title: Gamification and Creative Approaches to Outreach, SHARE with Schools
• Cardiff University - SHARE With Schools Return Visit, Fitzalan High School – 10th July 2023
  • Paper Title: An Introduction to Dynasty in Persian Art
• British Institute of Persian Studies - Grant Reporting Workshop - 12th July 2023
  • Paper Title: Reporting On Papers at UCL and AMPAH 2023
• Cardiff University – Ancient History Seminar Series – 9^th May 2023
  • Paper Title: Displaying Dynasty: The Appearance and Absence of Royal Women in the Near East.
• University College London – Lyceum Classics Community Seminar – 16^th November 2022
  • Paper Title: The Iconography of War and Violence in Persia and the Near East.
• Cardiff University – SHARE Seminar Series – 17^th October 2022
  • Paper Title: Display in the Ancient Near East and Egypt: An Iconographic Exegesis of Warfare and Violence in Isaiah 14:24-24.

Committees and reviewing

• Chair of the Organising Committee, AMPAH (Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History) 2024
  • Theme: Interdisciplinary Approaches to People, Power and Place
  • Funded by the Doctoral Academy and the School of History, Archaeology, and Religion
• Panel Strand Chair, 15th Celtic Conference in Classics
  • Strand Theme: Near Eastern and Classical Conceptions of Dynasty and Rulership
• Chair and Website designer - 15th Celtic Conference in Classics (2024)
• Co-Founder and Co-Organiser, SHARE Seminar Series (2022-2023)
• Organising Committee, UWICAH (Universities of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History) 2021.
  • Theme: Communication and Interaction in the Ancient World and its Study, 19^th – 20^th November 2021.