Professor Josephine Quinn
Research interestsJosephine Quinn was educated at comprehensives in the Midlands before studying at Oxford and Berkeley, where she also taught at San Quentin Prison. She moved back to Europe in 2001 for a fellowship at the British School at Rome and then held a lectureship at St John鈥檚 College, Oxford in 2003-2004. From 2004 she taught in the Classics Faculty at Oxford, with a fellowship at Worcester College, before taking up the Chair in Ancient History at Cambridge in 2025. She co-directed the Tunisian-British archaeological excavations at Utica, and she has held fellowships at the Getty Villa and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
Josephine Quinn works on Mediterranean history and archaeology in a global context. She has a particular interest in ancient North Africa and Phoenician-speaking communities, but she has published articles on topics from Roman imperialism to Athenian sculpture to Numidian architecture to Edwardian education. She is currently beginning a new project on anarchy in the ancient Mediterranean.
Josephine Quinn works on Mediterranean history and archaeology in a global context. She has a particular interest in ancient North Africa and Phoenician-speaking communities, but she has published articles on topics from Roman imperialism to Athenian sculpture to Numidian architecture to Edwardian education. She is currently beginning a new project on anarchy in the ancient Mediterranean.
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