Elizabeth Fentress

Elizabeth Barringer Fentress (born 30 October 1948) is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in Italy and North Africa.

Elizabeth Barringer Fentress

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Born1948
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
OccupationArchaeologist

Biography

Fentress was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (BA 1969 Latin), University College London (MA 1974 Etruscan and Roman Archaeology) and St Hugh's College, Oxford (DPhil 1979 Roman Archaeology, The Economic Effects of the Roman Army on Southern Numidia).[1]

She was a Visiting Professor at University College London (2007-12), Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (2010) and Mellon Professor at the American Academy in Rome (1996–99).[2]

Previously, Fentress was a former President of the International Association of Classical Archaeology (AIAC), corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries since 2006.[3]

In 2003, she set up Fasti Online, an international database of Mediterranean archaeological excavation. Then in 2013, she was the winner of the first Archaeological Institute of America Award for Outstanding Digital Archaeology.[4] She is an Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London.[5]

Her husband James Fentress, an anthropologist and historian.

Scholarship

Her primary concentration has been on the application of archaeology to history of the longue durée in both the Italian peninsula and the countries of North Africa. Her work has focused on social and economic aspects of Roman landscapes of all periods, with special regard to the interaction between Roman and non-Roman peoples at their points of contact in areas such as slave markets, the limes, and urban areas. She is also a leader in the application of open-area, single-context stratigraphic excavation and intensive survey techniques, and she has directed or co-directed the following survey and excavation projects:

Publications
  • Numidia and the Roman Army (1979)
  • Fouilles de Setif 1977-1983 (1991)
  • (with Michael Brett) The Berbers (1996)
  • Romanization and the City, Creation, Transformations and Failures (2000)
  • (with A. Carandini, F. Cambi and M. Grazia Celuzza) Paesaggi d'Etruria tra l'Albegna et la Fiora (2002)
  • Cosa V: An intermittent town (2003)
  • (with M. Laird, S. Leone, C. Goodson) Walls and Memory: the Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (2005)
  • (with R. Holod and A. Drine) An Island through time: Jerba Studies volume I (2009)
  • (with Hendrik Dey) The Spaces of European Monasticism (2011)
  • (with Patrice Cressier) La Céramique Islamique Maghrébine du haut Moyen Age (2011)
  • (with C. Goodson, M. Maiuro) Villa Magna : an imperial estate and its legacies : excavations 2006-10 (2016)
  • (with H. Limane) Volubilis après Rome. Les fouilles UCL/INSAP. 2000-2005 (2019)

References
  1. Fentress, E. "The economic effects of the Roman army on southern Numidia". solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  2. "American Academy in Rome".
  3. "Fellows Directory".
  4. "2014 AIA Award Winners".
  5. UCL (2019-01-22). "Honorary". Institute of Archaeology. Retrieved 2019-09-20.
  6. Paesaggi d'Etruria : Valle dell'Albegna, Valle d'Oro, Valle del Chiarone, Valle del Tafone : progetto di ricerca italo-britannico seguito allo scavo di Settefinestre. Carandini, Andrea., Cambi, Franco, 1957-, Celuzza, Mariagrazia., Fentress, Elizabeth., Attolini, Ida. Roma: Edizioni di storia e letteratura. 2002. ISBN 8884980585. OCLC 51029334.CS1 maint: others (link)
  7. "Fouilles de Sétif 1997-1983, B.A.A. supp. 5".
  8. "Excavations at Cosa (1991-1997) Part 2: The Stratigraphy". www.press.umich.edu.
  9. Holod, Renata; Fentress, Elizabeth. "An Island through Time. Jerba Studies vol. I, the Punic and Roman Periods. JRA supp. 72". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. Fentress, E., Limane, H., & Palumbo, G. (2001). The Volubilis project, Morocco: excavation, conservation and management planning. Archaeology International, 5, 36–39. http://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ai.0511
  11. "Villa Magna Project Online Publication". Archived from the original on 2017-10-31.
  12. Hay, S., Fentress, E., Kallala, N., Quinn, J., and Wilson, A. 2010. Utica. In Papers of the British School at Rome 78 : 325-29
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