Barbara Borg
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Barbara Borg | |
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| Born | 26 December 1960 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Heidelberg University, Göttingen University, Ruhr-University Bochum |
| Thesis | Mumienporträts – Chronologie und kultureller Kontext |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Geoarchaeology |
| Institutions | University of Exeter |
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Barbara Elisabeth Borg FSA (born 26 December 1960) is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore.[1] She is known in particular for her work on Roman tombs, the language of classical art, and geoarchaeology.
Borg studied Classical Archaeology, Philosophy and Geology at Ruhr-University Bochum from 1981 to 1985 and gained her PhD at Georg-August-University, Göttingen, in 1990 with the thesis Mumienporträts – Chronologie und kultureller Kontext. Borg gained her Habilitation and venia legendi for Classical Archaeology at Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg in 1999 with the thesis Der Logos des Mythos – Allegorien und Personifikationen in der frühen griechischen Kunst.[2]
From 1993 to 2004 Borg held various teaching and research positions in Germany including acting Head of Department and Director of the Collection of Antiquities at the Archaeological Institute of Ruprecht-Karls-University. In 2004 she moved to the University of Exeter as professor of Classical Archaeology. She was Head of Classics from 2010 to 2015 and from 2018 onwards.[3]
Honours
Borg has held a number of visiting fellowships, including the Hugh Last Fellowship at the British School at Rome (2013),[4] the Senior Onassis Fellowship at the Waterloo Institute for Hellenic Studies (2012),[5] and a Getty Scholarship at the Getty Research Institute (2011).[2][6]
Borg has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2006,[2] was elected to the Academy of Europe in 2012,[7] and was elected as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2015.[8]
Borg received a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust in 2014.[9]
