I studied for a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology at Durham University, where I became interested in the inter-cultural relations of the Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age. As part of my doctoral research at the Institute of Archaeology (Oxford University), I explored the interactions between indigenous communities in the Ebro Valley (North East Spain) and Mediterranean cultures, principally from the perspective of wine trade and consumption patterns. I combined this with an interest in the links between identity, agency and material culture. I have also done work on cyber-anthropology, semiotics, archaeological inference, pedagogical skills in higher education and the ethnography of religion-power relations in the Eastern Mediterranean.
My teaching subjects are Classical Studies, Archaeology, Historiography and Anthropology. I am currently an associate lecturer for A251 (World Archaeology) and A330 (Myth in the Greek and Roman worlds) at the OU. I am also co-supervising with Phil Perkins a doctoral thesis on the Roman uses of domestic environments. I teach for various Oxford University Visiting Student programmes during term time and for an international study-abroad programme during the summer. My principal areas of interest in Education Studies are enquiry-based learning and virtual learning environments.
(Under contract) Alzola Romero, A. (ed.) Archaeology for the Masses: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to a Neglected Identity Category. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
2008 Alzola Romero, A. ‘Los sitios de cada cosa: Propuesta intercontextual para el estudio de las interacciones sociales en la protohistoria de la Cataluña Meridional’. In M. Miñarro Casas and S. Valenzuela-Lamas (eds.) Actes del I Congrés de Joves Investigadors en Arqueologia dels Països Catalans: La Protohistòria als Països Catalans. Arqueomediterrània 10, Barcelona: Universidad de Barcelona: 205-214.
2005 Alzola Romero, A. ‘¿Colonizadores colonizados? Acercamientos teóricos recientes al papel fenicio en el sur de la Península Ibérica’. In A. Blanco, C. Cancelo and Á. Esparza (eds.) Bronce Final y Edad del Hierro en la Península Ibérica: Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca: 469-478.
2012 Alzola Romero, A. ‘One laptop per college student? Exploring the links between access to IT hardware and academic performance in higher education e-learning programs’ Journal of Distance Education 26.1
2009 Alzola Romero, A. and Sánchez-Moreno, E. ‘Fabricating Celts: How Iron Age Iberians became Indo-Europeanized during the Franco regime’. In Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 2009.
2005-2006 Alzola Romero, A. ‘Adaptación y aplicación del sistema de cuantificación PIE-Slice, un método para el estudio estadístico de covarianza’ In Kalathos 24-25: 47-67.
2005 Burillo Mozota, F. and Alzola Romero, A. ‘Food, drink and the Other in the Celtiberian city-state of Segeda I (Zaragoza, Spain)’. In Archaeological Review from Cambridge 20.2: 69-81.
2003 Alzola Romero, A. ‘/Whois? Identity, collectivity and the self in IRC’. In Psychnology Journal 1.2: 87-130.
2012 Alzola Romero, A. et al. ‘How do they know that?’ (booklet to accompany the BBC’s The History of the World documentary series). London; The Open University and The British Broadcasting Corporation.
2012 Alzola Romero, A. ‘Rhabdos’. In Iota June 2012. 16-18.
2012 Alzola Romero, A. ‘The truth behind the Olympic torch’ (online article). OpenLearn, The Open University.
2012 Alzola Romero, A. ‘How the Olympics were born’ (online article). MSN News UK.
2012 Alzola Romero, A. ‘Cheating, the ancient Olympic way’ (online article). MSN News UK.
‘Mobile Learning in the Arts’ (blog).
2011 Alzola Romero, A. et al. ‘The Ancient Olympics: Bridging past and present’ (Open Educational Resource).
Contact: a.alzola-romero
open.ac.uk
