Beryl Rawson
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24 July 1933
- Don Rawson
Beryl Rawson | |
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| Born | Beryl Marie Wilkinson 24 July 1933 Innisfail, Queensland, Australia |
| Died | 22 October 2010 (aged 77) |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Queensland Bryn Mawr College |
| Doctoral advisor | Lily Ross Taylor |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Institutions | Australian National University |
Beryl Rawson FAHA (née Wilkinson; 24 July 1933 – 22 October 2010) was an Australian academic. She was Professor and Visiting Fellow in Classics at the Faculty of Arts of the Australian National University (ANU).[1] Her work "made ANU a significant centre for classical studies".[2]
Rawson was born in Innisfail, Queensland, and grew up in a small town nearby where her father was the schoolteacher. She won a full state government scholarship to the University of Queensland, where she excelled in classics and graduated with first-class honours. She accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States and completed a doctorate at Bryn Mawr College, under Lily Ross Taylor.[3]
Academia
Her career at the Australian National University began in 1964, when she was appointed senior lecturer in classics. She served as Dean of the Faculty of the Arts from 1981 to 1986 and in 1989 was appointed Professor of Classics, retiring in 1998.[4]
As well as her academic duties, Rawson won five research grants between 1979 and 1991 and served on the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee and the Australian Research Council. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2006. The administrative offices of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at ANU was named after her following her death.[5]
On 13 December 2010, Vice-Chancellor of ANU, Professor Ian Chubb officially recognised the naming of the Beryl Rawson Building in her honour.[6]
