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Name Victoria Leonard
Position Research Fellow
Institutional Affiliation Coventry University
Research Interests

Late Antiquity; Ancient History; Early Medieval History; Early Christianity; Classics; Religion; Roman History; Historiography; Gender and Sexuality; Women; The Body; Digital Humanities; Network Analysis; Databases; Prosopography; Equality and Diversity in Higher Education; Open Access Knowledge and Learning; Wikipedia

Websites https://coventry.academia.edu/VictoriaLeonard
Publications

2019: Galla Placidia as ‘Human Gold’: Consent and Autonomy in the Sack of Rome, CE 410', Gender and History, pp. 1-19

2019: 'Advancing Feminism Online: Online Tools, Visibility, and Women in Classics', Victoria Leonard & Sarah E. Bond, Studies in Late Antiquity, 3, 1, pp. 4-16

2018: 'Female scholars are marginalised on Wikipedia because it's written by men', The Guardian

2017: 'How we doubled the representation of female classical scholars on Wikipedia', Times Higher Education, pp. 32-33

2017: 'The Origin of Zealous Intolerance: Paulus Orosius and Violent Religious Conflict in the Early Fifth Century', Vigiliae Christianae, 71, 3, pp. 261-284

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