Josephine Crawley Quinn | |
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Born | 10 September 1973 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford University of California, Berkeley |
Thesis | Imperialism and Culture in North Africa: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Eras |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Sub-discipline | Ancient History |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Josephine Crawley Quinn (born 10 September 1973) is an historian and archaeologist,working across Greek,Roman and Phoenician history. Appointed on 1 January 2025,she is the first woman to hold the Professorship of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge,and is a fellow at St. John's College. [1] [2] Quinn was previously Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics,University of Oxford and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College,University of Oxford. [3]
Quinn obtained a BA in Classics in 1996 from Wadham College,Oxford. [4] She then obtained an MA (1998) and PhD (2003) in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California,Berkeley. [4] In 2001–2002,she was the Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome. [4] In 2003–2004 she was a College Lecturer in Ancient History at St John's College,and she has been at Worcester College since 2004. [4] In 2008 she was a visiting scholar at the Getty Villa. [5]
Quinn is co-director of the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies, [6] and co-director of the Tunisian-British Excavations at Utica,Tunisia with Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Fentress. [4] [7]
Between 2006 and 2011,Quinn served as the editor of the Papers of the British School at Rome.
Quinn won the Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize in the Humanities in 2009. [8] She has published numerous articles and two co-edited volumes,the Hellenistic West,and The Punic Mediterranean. [4] In 2018 Quinn published the monograph In Search of the Phoenicians,described as a pioneering and exhilarating volume, [9] which argues that the idea of the Phoenicians as a distinct,self-identifying group,is a modern invention. [10] The book was awarded the Society for Classical Studies Goodwin Award of Merit in 2019. [11]
Quinn contributes to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books ,and has appeared on BBC Radio Three and Four. [12]
Quinn is the daughter of the former MEP Christine Crawley,Baroness Crawley.