Alex Mullen (academic)
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- James Henry Breasted Prize (2014)
- Philip Leverhulme Prize (2018)
- Classicist
- Ancient Historian
- Linguist
- Archaeologist
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| Born | 14 October 1982 |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Institutions | University of Nottingham |
Alex Mullen FSA FRHistS (born 14 October 1982) is an ancient historian, sociolinguist and Roman archaeologist. She is currently Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Mullen studied for an undergraduate degree at Jesus College, Cambridge.[1] She completed an M. Phil and PhD, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, also at the University of Cambridge.[2]
Career
From 2008 to 2011 Mullen was a Lumley Research Fellow, at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2011 to 2015.[1] In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council starting grant for the project 'LatinNow', The Latinization of the North-Western Roman Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Archaeology.[3] 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.[1]
