Josephine Crawley Quinn

Josephine Crawley Quinn is an ancient historian and archaeologist, working across Greek, Roman and Phoenician history. Quinn is a Professor of Ancient History in the Faculty of Classics and Martin Frederiksen Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Worcester College, University of Oxford.[1]

Josephine Crawley Quinn
Academic background
Alma materWadham College, Oxford
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisImperialism and Culture in North Africa: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Eras
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford

Career

Quinn obtained a BA in Classics in 1996 from Wadham College, Oxford.[2] She then obtained an MA (1998) and PhD (2003) in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] In 2001-2002 she was the Ralegh Radford Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome.[2] In 2003-2004 she was a College Lecturer in Ancient History at St John's College, and she has been at Worcester College since 2004.[2] In 2008 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Getty Villa.[3]

Quinn is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies,[4] and Co-Director of the Tunisian-British Excavations at Utica, Tunisia with Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Fentress.[5][6]

Between 2006 and 2011, Quinn served as the editor of the Papers of the British School at Rome.

Quinn won the Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize in the Humanities in 2009.[7] She has published numerous articles and two co-edited volumes, the Hellenistic West, and The Punic Mediterranean.[2] In 2018 Quinn published the monograph In Search of the Phoenicians, described as a pioneering and exhilarating volume,[8] which questions the existence of the Phoenicians.[9] The book was awarded the Society for Classical Studies Goodwin Award of Merit in 2019.[10]

Quinn contributes to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books, and has appeared on BBC Radio Three and Four.[11]

Selected publications
  • Quinn, J.C. 2010. The reinvention of Lepcis. In Bollettino di Archeologia ON LINE. Roma 2008 - International Congress of Classical Archaeology Meetings Between Cultures in the Ancient Mediterranean.
  • Quinn, J. and Wilson, A. 2013. Capitolia. Journal of Roman Studies 103: 117–173.
  • Quinn, J.C., McLynn, N, Kerr and R.M., Hadas, D. 2014. Augustine's Canaanities. Papers of the British School at Rome 82: 175-197.
  • Quinn, J.C. and Vella, N.C. 2014. The Punic Mediterranean: Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Quinn, J.C. 2017. Translating empire from Carthage to Rome. Classical Philology 112(3): 312-331.
  • Quinn, J. 2018. In Search of the Phoenicians. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

References
  1. "Professor Josephine Crawley Quinn | Faculty of Classics". www.classics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  2. "Dr Josephine Crawley Quinn | Faculty of Classics". www.classics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  3. The J. Paul Getty Trust (2007). The J. Paul Getty Trust 2007 Report (PDF). Los Angeles.
  4. "Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies". punic.classics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  5. "Dr Josephine Crawley Quinn | Faculty of Classics". www.classics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  6. "Utica". utica.classics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
  7. Josephine., Quinn (2017). In Search of the Phoenicians. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. xxv. ISBN 9781400889112. OCLC 1017004243.
  8. Butler, John (2018-06-22). ""In Search of the Phoenicians" by Josephine Quinn". Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  9. Bowersock, G. W. (2018-06-28). "Rootless Cosmopolitans". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  10. "2019 Goodwin Award Winners". Society for Classical Studies. 2019-10-03. Retrieved 2019-11-22.
  11. "Josephine Quinn | TORCH". www.torch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
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