James N. Adams#
Obituary
, PhilSoc (Philological Society)
Curriculum vitae#
EDUCATION:
- 1956-60 North Sydney Boys’ High School
- 1961-64 University of Sydney
- 1967-70 Brasenose College, Oxford
DEGREES:
- B.A. (Sydney), 1965, with First Class Honours and the University Medal for Latin
- D.Phil. (Oxford), 1970
- M.A. (Cambridge), 1970
- M.A. (Oxford), 1998
AWARDS AND PRIZES:
- 1963, 1964 Nicholson Scholarship nos. I and II University of Sydney
- 1967-70 Commonwealth Scholarship, for research at Brasenose College, Oxford
- 1992 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 2002 Elected Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
- 2007 Elected Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2009 Awarded Kenyon Medal of the British Academy
- 2012 Elected Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford
- 2014 Winner of 2013 PROSE award for Language and Linguistics of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, Inc., for Social Variation and the Latin Language
POSITIONS HELD:
- 1965-67 Teaching Fellow Department of Latin University of Sydney
- 1970-72 W.H.D. Rouse Research Fellow in Classics, Christ’s College Cambridge
- 1972-78 Lecturer in Greek and Latin University of Manchester
- 1978-82 Senior Lecturer in Greek and Latin University of Manchester
- 1982-93 Reader in Latin, University of Manchester
- 1993-95 Professor of Latin University of Manchester
- 1994-95 Visiting Senior Research Fellow St. John’s College Oxford
- 1995-97 Professor of Latin University of Reading
- 1998-2010 Senior Research Fellow All Souls College Oxford
- 2013-2014 Professorial Research Fellow, University of Manchester
- 2014-2015 Honorary Research Fellow, University of Manchester
