Josephine Quinn
Josephine Quinn is associate professor of ancient history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Worcester College. She is the coeditor of The Hellenistic West and The Punic Mediterranean.
Josephine Crawley Quinn works on Mediterranean history and archaeology. She has published articles on topics from Roman imperialism to Athenian sculpture to Carthaginian child sacrifice to Edwardian education, and she co-edited volumes of essays on ‘The Hellenistic West’ (with Jonathan Prag) and 'The Punic Mediterranean' (with Nicholas Vella), as well as the collected papers of Peter Derow (with Andrew Erskine).
She has a BA in Classics from Oxford, and an MA and PhD in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also taught at San Quentin prison. She was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome 2001-2, a Getty Scholar in 2008, and in 2009 she won the Zvi Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize in the Humanities. She served as Editor of the Papers of the British School at Rome 2008-2011 and co-directs the excavations at Utica (Tunisia), with Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Fentress, as well as the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies, with Jonathan Prag.
Her latest book, In Search of the Phoenicians, was published by Princeton University Press in 2018, and she is currently working on the true story of the origins of the Western Civilization: How the World Made the West.
Source: University of Oxford Faculty of Classics
