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Maureen Carroll (born 1953) FSA is a Canadian archaeologist and academic. She is the Chair in Roman Archaeology at the University of York.
Prof Maureen Carroll | |
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| Born | 1953 (age 70–71) |
| Occupation | Classical archaeologist |
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| Institutions | University of York |
Carroll received a BA in Classical Studies from Brock University and a MA in Classical Archaeology from Indiana University.[1] Carroll received a PhD in Classical Archaeology from Indiana University and Freie Universität. Carroll was subsequently based at Cologne University and the Romisch-Germanisches Museum.[2] In 1998 Carroll was appointed as a lecturer in Roman Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.[1] In 2020, she was appointed Chair of Roman archaeology at the University of York.[3]
Carroll has excavated in Italy, Germany, Britain, Cyprus and North Africa.[1] Her excavations at Vagnari, southern Italy have discovered an imperial wine-making estate.[4] She has spent several periods of research at the British School at Rome, as the Balsdon Fellow in 2007-8 and the Hugh Last Fellow 2015–16.[5] Carroll has held the position of Visiting Professor of Classics at McMaster University.[2]
Carroll's research has includes gender and dress in the Roman provinces,[6] Greek and Roman gardens,[7] Roman infancy and childhood[8] and Roman death and burial.[9] She has authored numerous monographs.
Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada[5] and the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust.[10]
Carroll was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2008.[11]
Scholia has an author profile for Maureen Carroll.
- Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World. ‘A Fragment of Time’. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
- M. Carroll and E-J. Graham (eds.), Infant Health and Death in Roman Italy and Beyond (Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Volume 96), Portsmouth, R.I., 2014
- Spirits of the Dead. Roman Funerary Commemoration in Western Europe (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006; paperback 2011
- Earthly Paradises. Ancient gardens in History and Archaeology. London: British Museum Press, 2003
- Romans, Celts and Germans: The German Provinces of Rome. Stroud: Tempus, 2001
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