Carlos Machado

Carlos Machado is a Professor of Ancient History at the School of Classics, University of St Andrews. He holds a DPhil in Ancient History from the University of Oxford (2006), with earlier studies in Brazil (History at Niterói and Economic History at São Paulo). He has held fellowships at the British School at Rome (2006–2008) and as a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg (2008–2009). Before joining St Andrews in 2015, he taught at the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (2010–2013) and Universidade de São Paulo (2013–2015).

His research focuses on late antique Rome and Italy, emphasizing urban space, senatorial aristocracy, Christianity, and visual culture. Current projects include studies on poverty in Late Antiquity and the role of portraits in urban life. He teaches modules on Roman history, late antique religious communities, urban life, and archaeology of Roman Italy.

Grants and projects include the AHRC-funded 'Land and Loyalty: The Politics of Land in the Later Roman World' (2024–2027) and a Leverhulme Trust project on poverty's role in the end of the ancient West. He collaborates with the Centre for Ancient Environmental Studies and Centre for Late Antique Studies.

Publications include Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome (2019) and articles on civic honours, statue reuse, and aristocratic housing. His work bridges archaeology, epigraphy, and social history to explore late antique dynamics.