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Susan Walker FSA is an archaeologist specialising in the study of Roman art. She was previously the Keeper of Antiquities and is currently an Honorary Curator of the Ashmolean Museum,Oxford.
As an undergraduate,Walker excavated at Gravina di Puglia and Melfi. [1] Walker undertook doctoral work at the British School at Athens. [1]
In 1977,she joined the British Museum. [2] In the 1990s she was Senior Curator of Mediterranean Roman Antiquities. [1] At the British Museum Walker curated a number of major exhibitions,including Ancient Faces:Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt at the British Museum in 1997.
In 2004 she became the Sackler Keeper of Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum, [2] and she had a key role in the redevelopment of the museum's displays. [3]
She has served as President of the Society for the Promotion of Libyan Studies. [3] Walker was the Hugh Last Fellow and the Chair of Publications at the British School at Rome in 2013,undertaking a project on 'Gold-glass,inscriptions and sarcophagi from the catacombs of Rome'. [3] She was the Balsdon Fellow 2006-7. [1]
Walker was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1984. [4]
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