Lynne Lancaster
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Prof. Lynne C. Lancaster | |
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| Occupation(s) | Archaeologist, Lecturer |
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| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Concrete Vaulted Construction: Developments in Rome from Nero to Trajan (1995) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Roman archaeology, Roman architecture |
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Lynne C. Lancaster (born 1964) is an American Roman archaeologist specializing in Roman architecture and the topography of Rome.
Lancaster grew up in LaGrange, Georgia and graduated from LaGrange High school. She undertook her BArch at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and her MPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford.[1] Lancaster was Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University where she taught from 1997 to 2020 and was chair of the department 2017–18.[1] From 2018 to 2021 Lancaster served as the Andrew W. Mellon Humanities at the American Academy in Rome.[2] She is currently Rawson Visiting Scholar in the Classics Department at University of Cincinnati.[3]
Awards
Lancaster was awarded the Humanities Rome Award by the British School at Rome in 1993–1994.[4] From 2001 to 2001 Lancaster held the Phyllis W. G. Gordan Rome prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.[5][2]
Lancaster received the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the American Institute for Archaeology in 2007 for Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome,[1] and from 2010 to 2011 Lancaster held the AIA Joukowsky Lecturership.[1]
