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Josephine Crawley Quinn is an historian and archaeologist, working across Greek, Roman and Phoenician history. Quinn is a Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College, University of Oxford.[1]
Josephine Crawley Quinn | |
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| Born | 10 September 1973 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Imperialism and Culture in North Africa: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Eras |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
Quinn obtained a BA in Classics in 1996 from Wadham College, Oxford.[2] She then obtained an MA (1998) and PhD (2003) in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] In 2001–2002, she was the Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome.[2] 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.[2] In 2008 she was a visiting scholar at the Getty Villa.[3]
Quinn is co-director of the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies,[4] and co-director of the Tunisian-British Excavations at Utica, Tunisia with Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Fentress.[2][5]
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.[6] She has published numerous articles and two co-edited volumes, the Hellenistic West, and The Punic Mediterranean.[2] In 2018 Quinn published the monograph In Search of the Phoenicians, described as a pioneering and exhilarating volume,[7] which argues that the idea of the Phoenicians as a distinct, self-identifying group, is a modern invention.[8] The book was awarded the Society for Classical Studies Goodwin Award of Merit in 2019.[9]
Quinn contributes to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books, and has appeared on BBC Radio Three and Four.[10]
Quinn is the daughter of the former MEP Christine Crawley, Baroness Crawley.
- Quinn, J.C. 2010. The reinvention of Lepcis. In Bollettino di Archeologia ON LINE. Roma 2008 - International Congress of Classical Archaeology Meetings Between Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean.
- Quinn, J. and Wilson, A. 2013. "Capitolia". Journal of Roman Studies 103: 117–173.
- Quinn, J.C., McLynn, N, Kerr and R.M., Hadas, D. 2014. "Augustine's Canaanities". Papers of the British School at Rome 82: 175–197.
- Quinn, J.C. and Vella, N.C. 2014. The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Quinn, J.C. 2017. "Translating empire from Carthage to Rome". Classical Philology 112(3): 312–331.
- Quinn, J. 2018. In Search of the Phoenicians. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Quinn, J. 2024. How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History. Bloomsbury Press.
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