Lynne Lancaster

Prof. Lynne C. Lancaster
Occupation(s)	Archaeologist, Lecturer
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Thesis	Concrete Vaulted Construction: Developments in Rome from Nero to Trajan (1995)
Academic work
Discipline	Classical Archaeology
Sub-discipline	Roman archaeology, Roman architecture
Institutions	Ohio University American Academy in Rome British School at Rome Archaeological Institute of America

Lynne C. Lancaster (born 1964) is an American 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. Lancaster is currently a Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University, where she has been based since 1997. In 2018 Lancaster was appointed as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the Humanities at the American Academy in Rome.

Awards

Lancaster was awarded the Humanities Rome Award by the British School at Rome in 1993-1994. From 2001-2001 Lancaster held the Phyllis W. G. Gordan Rome prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

Lancaster received the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the American Institute for Archaeology in 2007 for Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome, and from 2010-2011 Lancaster held the AIA Joukowsky Lecturership.

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.

Personal life

Since 1989, Lancaster has been married to fellow archaeologist and educator, Tom Carpenter, who specializes in Greek iconography and the ancient peoples of South Italy. Together they have travelled the Mediterranean extensively and lived in England and Italy.