Carol van Driel-Murray

In 1975, Carol van Driel-Murray joined the University of Amsterdam as a researcher, and was promoted to lecturer in 1982. While teaching at the, van Direl-Murray completed a doctorate at the same university, and was awarded a PhD in 1987. The work examined leather from Roman sites.^[1]

She organised the Roman Military Equipment Conference twice (1987 and 1994) and edited the conference proceedings.^[2] She also regularly participated in the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, and at the 1992 edition she delivered an influential paper which explored the topic of gender in Roman archaeology.^[3] The editor of the conference proceedings noted that, along with Lindsay Allason-Jones' contribution, the paper "provide[d] important examples of how assumptions have become embedded within Roman archaeology and have taken on the appearance of fact."^[4] In 2001, TRAC formed a standing committee to oversee the conference, consisting of van Driel-Murray, Martin Carruthers, Andrew Gardner, Jason Lucas, Louise Revell, and Ellen Swift. The committee also edited the proceedings for the 2001 conference.^[5]

van Driel-Murrary joined the University of Leiden in 2012 and retired in 2015.^[1]

In 2018, Oxbow Books published a festschrift dedicated to van Driel-Murray, edited by Tatiana Ivlevla, Jasper de Bruin, and Mark Driessen.^[6]

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