BA Honours cum laude (Classical Culture, Greek, Latin) – University of Stellenbosch
MA cum laude (Classical Culture) – University of Stellenbosch
DLitt et Phil (Ancient History) – University of South Africa
Greco-Roman antiquity
Ancient History
Gender in antiquity
Military history in the ancient world
Socio-political history of Roman North Africa
Female empowerment in ancient Greco-Roman society
“The Generalship of John Troglita – Art in Artifice?” Pages 187-205 in The Art of Generalship. Edited by Shaun Tougher and Richard J. Evans. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory. Edited by De Marre, MEA and Bhola, RK. London: Routledge (2022).
Piracy, Pillage and Plunder in Antiquity: Appropriation and the Ancient World. Edited byEvans, RJ and De Marre, MEA. London: Routledge (2020).
“’Bad Girls’? Collective Violence by Women and the Case of the Circumcellions in Roman North Africa”. Pages 145-69 in Piracy, Pillage and Plunder in Antiquity: Appropriation and the Ancient World. Edited by Richard Evans and Martine De Marre. London: Routledge (2020).
“One Oracle Too Many? Corippus and Procopius on Female Prophecy in North Africa”. Pages 162-82 in Prophets and Profits. Ancient Divination and its Reception. Edited by R. J Evans. London: Routledge, 2018.
“Aelia Arisuth – Mithraic Matron or Popular Patron”. Pages 215-39 in Greece, Rome, Byzantium and Africa. Festschrift for BE Hendrickx. Edited by W.J. Henderson and E. Zacharopoulou. Johannesburg/Athens: Hestia Publishers, 2016.
“Using literature to reconstruct history – the case of John Troglíta.” Italian Studies in Southern Africa 33.2: 36-64 (2020).
“Warfare and Women in the Ancient World.” Akroterion 65: 31-44 (2020).
“Augustine and Fulgentius – Parallel or Vying African Lives?” Journal of Early Christian History 5.1:1-28 (2016).
“Docta nimis visa et facunda: Wishful Thinking or Social Reality,” Acta Classica 47:51-74 (2004).
“Arming or Charming: Obsequium and Domestic Politics in Roman North Africa.” Akroterion 50:39-50, 2004.
“Some Conventions of Age and Gender in Roman Africa.” Daedalus 4.1:1-5 (2003).
“Aristophanes on Bawds in the Boardroom: Comedy as a Guideline to Gender Relations in Antiquity.” Social Identities 2.1:37-65 (2001).
Recipient of Vogel Merit Award for research (2004)
Recipient of Unisa Woman of the Year award (2010)
Chair of Department (Classics and World Languages) (2007-2013)
Guile versus Force. The Representation of Women as Strategists in Ancient Warfare (article).
Bellum ex altera parte: Social Status, Gender and Ethnicity in Ancient Warfare (colloquium)
