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Born | 14 October 1982 |
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Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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Alex Mullen FSA FRHistS (born 14 October 1982) is an ancient historian,sociolinguist and Roman archaeologist. She is currently Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of All Souls College,Oxford.
Mullen studied for an undergraduate degree at Jesus College,Cambridge. [1] She completed an M. Phil and PhD,funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council,also at the University of Cambridge. [2]
From 2008 to 2011 Mullen was a Lumley Research Fellow,at Magdalene College,Cambridge. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College,Oxford,from 2011 to 2015. [1] In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council starting grant for the project 'LatinNow',The Latinization of the North-Western Roman Provinces:Sociolinguistics,Epigraphy and Archaeology. [3] She has published widely on issues of sociolinguistics,bilingualism,and social identity in the Iron Age and Roman worlds,utilising texts,epigraphy and archaeology. In 2017 she was elected as a Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College. [1]
Mullen's 2013 monograph,Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean:multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods, received the James Henry Breasted Prize in 2014 from the American Historical Association. [4] In 2018,Mullen was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Classics. [5] Mullen was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 26 June 2021, [6] and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2021. [7]
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