Recipient Anna Walas
Date 22 April, 2022
Amount £1290 Travel Grant
Summary Owing to exceptional preservation, architectural detail, graffiti and ostraca, the Roman military base at Bu Njem is one of the best-preserved examples of a Roman military base anywhere within the empire. The site was excavated in the 1960s-70s, before key intellectual approaches to frontiers and Roman Africa developed and was never fully published. The monograph, as a first comprehensive treatment of Bu Njem provides a timely contribution, filling a gap in the regional picture, offering a comparative for sites in Algeria and challenges traditional inward-looking agendas in the studies of Roman frontier sites. The completed research arises from a PhD chapter of my thesis and research arising from two BLINAS travel grants (2018 and 2022). The research and analysis for the proposed sections of the book to be written up during the fellowship were completed at different points in time between 2013 and 2022