Lin Foxhall
Lin Foxhall | |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College, University of Pennsylvania, University of Liverpool |
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| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Ancient Greek History |
| Institutions | University of Leicester, University of Liverpool |
Lin Foxhall,
FSA, MBE, is a Professor of archaeology and ancient Greek History. She has written on women, men, and gender in the classical world. She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Leicester,[1] and in 2017 she was appointed to the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.[2]
Career
Foxhall studied for her
PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1990 for a thesis entitled, Olive Cultivation Within Greek and Roman Agriculture: The Ancient Economy Revisited.[3] She is the Principal Investigator on the 'Tracing Networks' Project.[1] She is the co-director of the Bova Marina project.[4] Foxhall joined the University of Leicester in 1993, and was made Professor of Greek Archaeology and History in 1999.[1]
Foxhall was awarded an honorary MBE in 2001 in recognition of her contribution to the Millennium celebrations. As a bell-ringer herself, she created the “Ringing in the Millennium” project in 1996 and was awarded £3 million in National Lottery funding towards the £6 million project. Across the UK over 150 communities benefited from the project, in which new bells were installed and old bells restored.[5]
Foxhall was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 5 June 2003.[6]
In 2017, she was the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool.[2]
She is a member of the editorial board of World Archaeology journal.[7]
Publications
- "Women's Ritual and Men's Work in Ancient Athens", in Women in Antiquity. New Assessments, edited by Richard Hawley and ISBN 0-203-42855-2, S. 97–110
- Greek Law in its Political Setting: Justifications not Justice, edited with A. D. E. Lewis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996) ISBN 0-198-14085-1
- Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (= Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society. Band 7) edited with John Salmon (London: Routledge, 1998) ISBN 1-134-68698-6
- Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy (Oxford: Wiley, 2007) ISBN 978-0-191-51841-6
- Gender and the City before Modernity, edited with Gabriele Neher (Chichester: Wiley, 2013) OCLC 772702909
- Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
References
- ^ a b c "Professor Lin Foxhall — University of Leicester". University of Leicester. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ a b "Lin Foxhall". University of Liverpool. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
- ^ "Liverpool University Library". library.liv.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-09-20.
- ^ "Bova Marina Archaeological Project - Progetto Archeologico Bova Marina". University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "Honour for University of Leicester Professor". University of Leicester. January 2001. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
- ^ "Society of Antiquaries London - Fellows Directory". Society of Antiquaries London.
- ^ "World Archaeology Editorial board". Taylor and Francis Online.
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