Elizabeth Schofield | |
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Born | Elizabeth Virginia Miller 1935 United States |
Died | 2005 69–70) Cambridge, United Kingdom | (aged
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cincinnati |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Institutions | Cornell University St John's College,Cambridge |
Elizabeth Virginia Schofield (1935-2005) was a British-American archaeologist and classical scholar.
Schofield attended Cheltenham Ladies' College in the UK before studying at Wilson College (Pennsylvania). She followed her college studies with a master's degree from Washington State University and then,in 1959,a PhD at the University of Cincinnati under Jack Caskey. [1]
Schofield taught at Cornell University before moving with her partner and family to a teaching position at St John's College,Cambridge. [1] Academically,she focused full-time on excavations at Kea;first with Jack Caskey and then directing the archaeological project there after Caskey's death. [2]
In 2005 she was awarded the distinguished service award by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. [1]
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