Lin Foxhall,
FSA,
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, is a Professor of archaeology and ancient Greek History. She has written on women, men, and gender in the classical world. She is an Honorary Professor at the
University of Leicester
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and in 2017 she was appointed to the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the
University of Liverpool
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.
Career
Foxhall studied for her
bachelor's degree
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at
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. She received her
master's degree
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University of Pennsylvania
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. She was awarded her
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from the
University of Liverpool
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in 1990 for a thesis entitled, ''Olive Cultivation Within Greek and Roman Agriculture: The Ancient Economy Revisited.'' She is the Principal Investigator on the 'Tracing Networks' Project.
She is the co-director of the Bova Marina project. Foxhall joined the
University of Leicester
, mottoeng = So that they may have life
, established =
, type = public research university
, endowment = £20.0 million
, budget = £326 million
, chancellor = David Willetts
, vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah
, head_labe ...
in 1993, and was made Professor of Greek Archaeology and History in 1999.
Foxhall was awarded an honorary
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* Mbé, a town in the Republic of the Congo
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* Mbe language, a language of Nigeria
* Mbe' language, language of Cameroon
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in 2001 in recognition of her contribution to the Millennium celebrations. As a bell-ringer herself, she created the “Ringing in the Millennium” project in 1996 and was awarded £3 million in
National Lottery funding towards the £6 million project. Across the UK over 150 communities benefited from the project, in which new bells were installed and old bells restored.
Foxhall was elected as a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
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(FSA) on 5 June 2003.
In 2017, she was the Rathbone Chair of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the
University of Liverpool
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.
She is a member of the editorial board of
World Archaeology
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journal.
Publications
* "Women's Ritual and Men's Work in Ancient Athens", in ''Women in Antiquity. New Assessments,'' edited by Richard Hawley and Barbara Levick (London: Routledge, 1995) , S. 97–110
* ''Greek Law in its Political Setting: Justifications not Justice,'' edited with A. D. E. Lewis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)
* ''Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition'' (= ''Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society.'' Band 7) edited with John Salmon (London: Routledge, 1998)
* ''Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy'' (Oxford: Wiley, 2007)
* ''Gender and the City before Modernity,'' edited with Gabriele Neher (Chichester: Wiley, 2013) ,
* ''Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
References
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1951 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Bryn Mawr College alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Women classical scholars
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London