Nancy Thomson de Grummond | |
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Born | August 26, 1940 |
Nationality | American |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Etruscan studies |
Institutions | Florida State University |
Website | https://classics.fsu.edu/person/nancy-t-de-grummond |
Nancy Thomson de Grummond (born August 26,1940) is the M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. [1] She specializes in Etruscan,Hellenistic and Roman archaeology. She serves as the director of archaeological excavations at Cetamura del Chianti in Tuscany,Italy. [2] Her current research relates to Etruscan and Roman religion,myth and iconography.
De Grummond earned a PhD in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968. She has been a professor at Florida State University since 1968. She was a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1989-1990,as well as the Parker Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Brown University in 1991,and the Edgar Togo Salmon visiting professor at McMaster University in 2008. [1]
De Grummond has been awarded numerous teaching awards at Florida State University including the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award (2010). [1] She is a foreign member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. [3] She has held the AIA’s Joukowsky Lectureship,and was the Norton Lecturer in 2011/2012. [4]
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