Thomas Matthews Boehmer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Classical Archaeology working on the AHRC-funded ‘Roman York beneath the streets’ project. The project seeks to reassess York in the light of evidence from past excavations and museum archives.

Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR), and a subsurface deposit model for the city.

He completed his undergraduate degree in Classical Archaeology at the University of Warwick, before coming to Fitzwilliam College in 2016 for postgraduate study. He obtained his MPhil and PhD degrees for work on how identity change was materialised in object use and burial construction in the western regions of the Roman Empire. Thomas is currently working on memory loss, the connection between burial rites and specific kinds of body, and fluctuating rates of burial deposition in the first few centuries CE.