Lynne Lancaster
Prof. Lynne Lancaster | |
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| Occupation(s) | Archaeologist, Lecturer |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Concrete Vaulted Construction: Developments in Rome from Nero to Trajan (1995) |
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| Discipline | Classical Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Roman archaeology, Roman architecture |
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Lynne Lancaster is a Roman archaeologist specialising in Roman architecture and the topography of Rome.
Biography
Lancaster grew up in Lagrange, Georgia and graduated from LaGrange High school. She undertook her BArch at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and her MPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford.[1] Lancaster is currently a Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University, where she has been based since 1997.[1] In 2018 Lancaster was appointed as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the Humanities at the American Academy in Rome.[2]
Awards
Lancaster was awarded the Humanities Rome Award by the British School at Rome in 1993-1994.[3] From 2001-2001 Lancaster held the Phyllis W. G. Gordan Rome prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.[4][2]
Lancaster received the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the American Institute for Archaeology in 2007 for Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome.[1] and from 2010-2011 Lancaster held the AIA Joukowsky Lecturership.[1]
Publications
- 2015 - Innovative Vaulting in Architecture of the Roman Empire, 1st to 4th Centuries CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2012 - A New Vaulting Technique for Baths in Southern Britain: The Anatomy of a Romano-British Invention. Journal of Roman Archaeology 25.1: 419-440.
- 2010 - Parthian Influence on Vaulting in Roman Greece? An Enquiry into Technological Exchange under Hadrian. American Journal of Archaeology 114.3: 447-472.
- 2005 - Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome: Innovations in Context. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- 2000 - Building Trajan’s Markets II: The Construction Process. American Journal of Archaeology 104: 755-785.
- 1999 - Building Trajan’s Column. American Journal of Archaeology 103: 419-439.
- 1998 - Reconstructing the Restorations of the Colosseum after the Fire of 217. Journal Roman Archaeology 11: 146-174.
References
- ^ a b c d "Lynne Lancaster - Archaeological Institute of America". www.archaeological.org. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
- ^ a b "Lynne C. Lancaster Is Appointed Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the Humanities". American Academy in Rome. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "Lynne Lancaster elected as Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-charge of Humanities at the American Academy in Rome". British School at Rome. Retrieved 5 July 2018.
- ^ "Lynne Lancaster". www.ohio.edu. Retrieved 2018-06-06.
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