Alex Mullen (born 14 October 1982) is an

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sociolinguist Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language. It can overlap with the sociology of l ...

and Roman archaeologist. She is currently Professor of

Ancient History Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history to as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. Ancient history cove ...

and Sociolinguistics at the

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and a fellow of

All Souls College, Oxford All Souls College (official name: College of the Souls of All the Faithful Departed) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of t ...

Early life and education

Mullen studied for an undergraduate degree at

Jesus College, Cambridge Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college's full name is The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge. Its common name comes fr ...

. She completed an M. Phil and PhD, funded by the

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, also at the

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Career

From 2008 to 2011 Mullen was a Lumley Research Fellow, at

Magdalene College, Cambridge Magdalene College ( ) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary ...

. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at

, from 2011 to 2015. In 2017 she was awarded a

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starting grant for the project '''LatinNow, ''The Latinization of the North-Western Roman Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Archaeology''. She has published widely on issues of sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and social identity in the Iron Age and Roman worlds, utilising texts, epigraphy and archaeology. In 2017 she was elected as a Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College.

Awards and honours

Mullen's 2013 monograph, ''Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods,'' received the James Henry Breasted Prize in 2014 from the

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...

. In 2018, Mullen was awarded a

Philip Leverhulme Prize The Philip Leverhulme Prize is awarded by the Leverhulme Trust to recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. The prize schem ...

for Classics. Mullen was elected as a fellow of the

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on 26 June 2021, and a fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...

in 2021.

Selected publications

Books

*Mullen, A and James, P (eds) 2012. ''Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Mullen, A, 2013. ''Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Mullen, A. and C. Ruiz Darasse 2018. ''Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy.'' University of Zaragoza Press. *Elder, O. and A. Mullen 2019. ''The Language of Roman Letters.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Mullen, A. and A. Bowman 2021.
The Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Volume 1 Scripts and Texts.
' Nottingham.

Journal articles

*Mullen, A. 2021 'Socio-literacy: an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literacy in the Roman North-West' in M. Ramírez and N. Moncunill (eds) ''Aprender la escritura, olvidar la escritura'' (Vitoria) 357–380. *Mullen, A. and Tomlin, R. S. O. 2019 'More from the Romano-British poets? A new metrical inscription from East Farleigh, Kent' ''Britannia'' 50, 47–54. *Wallace, L. and Mullen, A. 2019 'Landscape, Monumentality and Expression of Group Identities in Iron Age and Roman east Kent' ''Britannia'' 50, 75–108. *Mullen, A. 2016 'Sociolinguistics' in Millett, M., Moore, A. and Revell, L. (eds) ''The Oxford handbook to Roman Britain'' (Oxford) 573–598. *Mullen, A. 2013 'The language of the potteries: communication in the production and trade of Gallo-Roman ''terra sigillata in Fulford, M. and Durham, E. (eds) ''Seeing Red: new economic and social perspectives on terra sigillata'' (London) 97–110. *Mullen, A. 2007 'Evidence for written Celtic from Roman Britain: a linguistic analysis of ''Tabellae Sulis'' 14 and 18' ''Studia Celtica'' 41, 29–43.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mullen, Alex Living people 1982 births British women academics 21st-century British archaeologists Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Academics of the University of Nottingham Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge British women archaeologists Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Philip Leverhulme Prize winners