Catherine Morgan

Catherine Anne Morgan, OBE, FBA (born 1961) is a British academic specialising in the history and archaeology of Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece. Since 2015, she has been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She was Professor of Classical Archaeology at King's College London from 2005 to 2015, and Director of the British School at Athens from 2007 to 2015.

Professor Catherine Morgan OBE FBA
Born	1961 (age 59–60)
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge
Thesis	'Settlement and exploitation in the region of the Corinthian Gulf, c.1000-700 BC (1986)
Academic work
Discipline	Ancient history Archaeology
Sub-discipline	Classical archaeology Greek Dark Ages Archaic Greece Landscape archaeology
Institutions	Trinity Hall, Cambridge Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Royal Holloway, University of London King's College London British School at Athens All Souls College, Oxford

Early life and education

Morgan was born in 1961.[1] From 1980 to 1983, she studied archaeology and anthropology at Clare College, Cambridge. She remained at Clare College to study for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in classical archaeology. Her doctoral supervisor was Anthony Snodgrass. Her doctoral thesis, titled "Settlement and exploitation in the region of the Corinthian Gulf, c.1000-700 BC", was completed in 1986.[2]

Academic career

Morgan began her academic career as a Junior Research Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge between 1983 and 1986. She was then a Senior Research Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She moved from the University of Cambridge to Royal Holloway, University of London in 1992. There, she was a lecturer in classics until 1997.[3]

In 1997, Morgan moved to King's College London.[4] She was a Lecturer and then Reader, before being appointed Professor of Classical Archaeology in 2005.[3] In 2012, she was Visiting Professor at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.[5] From 2007 to 2015, she served as the twenty second Director of the British School at Athens.[6]

In October 2015, she was appointed a Senior Research Fellow in classics at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She is also Professor of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Oxford.[3][7]

Honours

In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours, Morgan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 'for services to classical scholarship'.[8][9]

In 2011, Morgan was elected a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.[10] In May 2014, she was elected a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute.[11] She is also an Honorary Member of the Archaeological Society of Athens.[3] In July 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[12]

Selected works

• Morgan, Catherine (1990). Athletes and oracles: the transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the eighth century BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521374514.
• Morgan, Catherine (2003). Early Greek states beyond the polis. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415089968.
• Morgan, Catherine (2004). Attic Fine Pottery of the Archaic to Hellenistic Periods in Phanagoria. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004138889.
• Hornblower, Simon; Morgan, Catherine, eds. (2007). Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199296729.
• Macfarlane, Fiona; Morgan, Catherine, eds. (2010). Exploring ancient sculpture: essays in honour of Geoffrey Waywell. London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. ISBN 978-1905670208.

References

1. "Morgan, Catherine, 1961-..." Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
2. Morgan, C. A. (1986). "Settlement and exploitation in the region of the Corinthian Gulf, c.1000-700 BC". E-Thesis Online Service. The British Library. Retrieved 25 November 2015.
3. "Professor Catherine Morgan". All Souls College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
4. "Professor Catherine Morgan OBE". King's College London. Archived from the original on 8 March 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
5. "Newsletter number thirty-one" (PDF). The Australasian Society for Classical Studies. September 2012. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
6. "Catherine Morgan, OBE". British School at Athens. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
7. "Senior Research Fellowship Elections". All Souls College. University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 18 June 2014. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
8. "No. 60173". The London Gazette (Supplement). 16 June 2012. p. 23.
9. "Professor Catherine Morgan awarded OBE". King's College London. 19 June 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
10. "Corresponding Members". About the AIA. Archaeological Institute of America. Retrieved 26 June 2014.
11. "e-Jahresbericht (e-Annual Report)". German Archaeological Institute (in German). 2014. p. 4. Retrieved 21 February 2016.
12. "British Academy announces new President and elects 66 new Fellows". The British Academy. 15 July 2016. Retrieved 18 July 2016.