Elizabeth Fentress

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Elizabeth Barringer Fentress

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Alma mater University of Oxford
OccupationArchaeologist

Elizabeth Barringer Fentress is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in Italy and North Africa. She has collaborated on the excavation of numerous sites in the Western Mediterranean and published their results. She is also the originator and scientific director of the online database of excavations in Italy, Bulgaria and elsewhere Fasti Online (www.fastionline.org), and editor of its journal Fasti Online Documents & Research (FOLD&R). In 2021 she was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's 2022 gold medal for distinguished archaeological achievement.

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Biography

Fentress was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (BA 1969 Latin), University College London (MA 1974 Etruscan and Roman Archaeology) and St Hugh's College, Oxford (DPhil 1979 Roman Archaeology, The Economic Effects of the Roman Army on Southern Numidia). [1]

She was a Visiting Professor at University College London (2007–12), (2018-2023), Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (2010) and Mellon Professor at the American Academy in Rome (1996–99). [2]

Previously, Fentress is a former President of the International Association of Classical Archaeology (AIAC), corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries since 2006. [3]

In 2003, she set up Fasti Online, an international database of Mediterranean archaeological excavation. Then in 2013, she was the winner of the first Archaeological Institute of America Award for Outstanding Digital Archaeology. [4] She is an Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London. [5] She was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's gold medal for distinguished archaeological achievement at the San Francisco meetings in January 2022. [6]

Her husband James Fentress is an anthropologist and historian.

Scholarship

Her primary concentration has been on the application of archaeology to history of the longue durée in both the Italian peninsula and the countries of North Africa. Her work has focused on social and economic aspects of Roman landscapes of all periods, with special regard to the interaction between Roman and non-Roman peoples at their points of contact in areas such as slave markets, the limes, urban areas like Cosa in Italy and Meninx, Utica, Sétif and Volubilis in North Africa and an imperial Villa, Villa Magna, in Italy. She is also a leader in the application of open-area, single-context stratigraphic excavation and intensive survey techniques, and she has directed or co-directed the following survey and excavation projects:

Publications

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References

  1. Fentress, E. "The economic effects of the Roman army on southern Numidia". solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
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  6. "News - Announcing the 2022 Gold Medal Award Winner". February 2021.
  7. Paesaggi d'Etruria : Valle dell'Albegna, Valle d'Oro, Valle del Chiarone, Valle del Tafone : progetto di ricerca italo-britannico seguito allo scavo di Settefinestre. Carandini, Andrea., Cambi, Franco, 1957-, Celuzza, Mariagrazia., Fentress, Elizabeth., Attolini, Ida. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura. 2002. ISBN   8884980585. OCLC   51029334.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. Fouilles de Sétif 1997-1983, B.A.A. supp. 5.
  9. "Excavations at Cosa (1991-1997) Part 2: The Stratigraphy". www.press.umich.edu.
  10. Holod, Renata; Fentress, Elizabeth. "An Island through Time. Jerba Studies vol. I, the Punic and Roman Periods. JRA supp. 72".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. Fentress, E., Limane, H., & Palumbo, G. (2001). The Volubilis project, Morocco: excavation, conservation and management planning. Archaeology International, 5, 36–39. http://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ai.0511
  12. "Villa Magna Project Online Publication". Archived from the original on 31 October 2017.
  13. Hay, S., Fentress, E., Kallala, N., Quinn, J., and Wilson, A. 2010. Utica. In Papers of the British School at Rome 78 : 325-29