Career
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,where her supervisor was Erich Gruen. [5] 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. [6]
Quinn is co-director of the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies, [7] and co-director of the Tunisian-British Excavations at Utica,Tunisia with Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Fentress. [4] [8]
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. [9] 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, [10] which argues that the idea of the Phoenicians as a distinct,self-identifying group,is a modern invention. [11] The book was awarded the Society for Classical Studies Goodwin Award of Merit in 2019. [12]
In 2024,Quinn published How the World Made the West,a history of "Western civilization" from the Bronze Age to the Age of Discovery and a critique of its supposed basis in Graeco-Roman culture. The book was favourably reviewed. Steven Poole in The Guardian declared:"this book triumphs as a brilliant and learned challenge to modern western chauvinism. To the extent that we have inherited classical culture,Quinn reminds us,it is in a rather perverted form." [13] Tristram Hunt in The Financial Times wrote:"Among Quinn’s achievements is her use of advanced discoveries in DNA to scuttle dearly held civilisational myths. The idea of a separate Etruscan race in the ninth century BC is shot down by evidence of their genetic profile being very similar to their Italian neighbours." [14]
Quinn contributes to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books ,and has appeared on BBC Radio Three and Four. [15]
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