Katherine McDonald
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Katherine McDonald is a British linguist and epigrapher studying the languages of pre-Roman Italy.[1] She has written extensively on language contact and the history of multilingualism in ancient Mediterranean. She is currently an Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University.[1]
She attained a PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She was previously an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at University of Exeter.[2][3]
In 2024, she was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding research in Classical Studies.[4] With this funding, she has begun a project titled "The Linguistics of Roman Slavery".[5]