Caroline Vout

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Caroline Vout
Bornc. 1972
Nationality British
Alma mater University of Cambridge
OccupationAcademic
Website http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/caroline-vout

Caroline Vout FSA (born c. 1972) is a British classicist and art historian. As of 2019 she is a Professor in classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. In 2021 she became Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge. [1]

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Vout was born in Durham. [2] She read Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1995, before taking a master's degree in Roman and Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute. [3] She then returned to Cambridge for her doctorate, which was supervised by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard.

Upon finishing her doctorate she lectured at the Universities of Bristol and Nottingham until being appointed to as a fellow of Christ's College in 2006. [4]

She curated an exhibition on Antinous at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and is on the academic advisory panel for the department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum. [5] She has written for The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian , [6] and appeared on the 2011 BBC Four documentary Fig Leaf: The Biggest Cover-Up In History and on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time .

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References

  1. Dr Caroline Vout at Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016
  2. Vout 2012: 1
  3. From 'About the author', Vout: 2006
  4. Dr Caroline Vout Archived 2012-01-20 at the Wayback Machine at website of Christ's College, Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016
  5. Greek and Roman Gallery Project Members Archived January 21, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016
  6. "The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans". The Guardian , 24 March 2013. Accessed 6 February 2016
  7. Art History Newsletter February 2008 Archived May 15, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  8. Philip Leverhulme Prizewinners 2008 Archived 2016-02-06 at the Wayback Machine . Leverhulme Trust, 2008. Accessed 6 February 2016