Josephine Crawley Quinn is a historian and archaeologist, working across Greek, Roman and Phoenician history. Quinn is a Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at

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Career

Quinn obtained a BA in Classics in 1996 from

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, Oxford. She then obtained an MA (1998) and PhD (2003) in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the

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. In 2001-2002 she was the Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome. In 2003-2004 she was a College Lecturer in Ancient History at St John's College, and she has been at Worcester College since 2004. In 2008 she was a visiting scholar at the

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. Quinn is co-director of the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies, and co-director of the Tunisian-British Excavations at Utica,

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with Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Fentress. Between 2006 and 2011, Quinn served as the editor of th
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Quinn won the Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor

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Research Prize in the Humanities in 2009. She has published numerous articles and two co-edited volumes, the ''Hellenistic West'', and ''The Punic Mediterranean''. In 2018 Quinn published the monograph ''In Search of the Phoenicians'', described as a pioneering and exhilarating volume, which argues that the idea of the

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ns as a distinct, self-identifying group, is a modern invention. The book was awarded the

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Goodwin Award of Merit in 2019. Quinn contributes to the '' London Review of Books'' and the ''

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'', and has appeared on BBC Radio Three and Four.

Personal life

Quinn is the daughter of the former MEP

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Selected publications

*Quinn, J.C. 2010. The reinvention of Lepcis. In ''Bollettino di Archeologia ON LINE. Roma 2008 - International Congress of Classical Archaeology Meetings Between Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean''. *Quinn, J. and Wilson, A. 2013. Capitolia. ''Journal of Roman Studies'' 103: 117–173. *Quinn, J.C., McLynn, N, Kerr and R.M., Hadas, D. 2014. Augustine's Canaanities. ''Papers of the British School at Rome'' 82: 175–197. *Quinn, J.C. and Vella, N.C. 2014. ''The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *Quinn, J.C. 2017. Translating empire from Carthage to Rome. ''Classical Philology'' 112(3): 312–331. *Quinn, J. 2018. ''In Search of the Phoenicians''. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

References

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