Lea Stirling

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Lea Margaret Stirling is a Canadian classical scholar and professor in the Department of Classics [1] at the University of Manitoba. Her research focuses on Roman archaeology and Roman art with particular emphases on Roman sculpture, Late Antique art, and cemetery archaeology, and Roman North Africa.

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Career

Stirling completed her BA in classics at the University of Alberta (1988). She continued her studies as a graduate student at the University of Michigan, where she received her first master's degree (1990) in Roman archaeology, her second (1994) in Latin, and her PhD (1994) in Roman archaeology. She joined the faculty in the Department of Classics at the University of Manitoba [1] in 1994 as an assistant professor, where she was promoted to associate professor in 2000 and professor in 2007. [1] Between 1995 and 2008 she was a co-director of excavation at Leptiminus (modern Lemta). [2] Stirling held a Canada Council Research Chair (Tier II) between 2001 and 2012. [3] In the Fall of 2008, she was a visiting professor at the University of Aarhus, [4] and a Margo Tytus Research Fellow at the University of Cincinnati in 2013–2014. [5] She received the Terry G. Falconer Memorial Winnipeg Rh Institute Foundation Emerging Researcher Award (1998), [6] the University of Manitoba's Award in Internationalization (2007), [7] and has twice won the University of Manitoba's Outreach Award (1998 and 2009). [8] Since 2000, Stirling has been selected as a National Touring Lecturer by the Archaeological Institute of America several times (most recently in 2006, [9] 2007, [10] 2014 [11] ).

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Selected peer-reviewed articles and book chapters

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