Carol van Driel-Murray (born 20 May 1950) is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in the role of women and studying leather. After studying at the University of Liverpool, van Driel-Murray worked at the

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for 37 years and the

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for three before she retired in 2015.

Early life

Carol was born on 20 May 1950 in

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. She completed a degree in archaeology at the

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in 1971. Four years later, she moved to the Netherlands and married Govert van Driel.

Career

In 1975, Carol van Driel-Murray joined the University of Amsterdam as a researcher, and was promoted to lecturer in 1982. While teaching at the, van Direl-Murray completed a doctorate at the same university, and was awarded a PhD in 1987. The work examined leather from Roman sites. She organised the Roman Military Equipment Conference twice (1987 and 1994) and edited the conference proceedings. She also regularly participated in the

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, and at the 1992 edition she delivered an influential paper which explored the topic of

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in Roman archaeology. The editor of the conference proceedings noted that, along with

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' contribution, the paper "provide important examples of how assumptions have become embedded within Roman archaeology and have taken on the appearance of fact." In 2001, TRAC formed a standing committee to oversee the conference, consisting of van Driel-Murray,

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, Andrew Gardner, Jason Lucas, Louise Revell, and Ellen Swift. The committee also edited the proceedings for the 2001 conference. van Driel-Murrary joined the University of Leiden in 2012 and retired in 2015. In 2018, Oxbow Books published a

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dedicated to van Driel-Murray, edited by Tatiana Ivlevla, Jasper de Bruin, and Mark Driessen.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:van Driel-Murray, Carol Living people 1950 births British women archaeologists Women classical scholars 20th-century British archaeologists 21st-century British archaeologists Alumni of the University of Liverpool Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam Academic staff of Leiden University