Mary Beard#
| Membership Number: | 4265 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/mary-beard |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - now Professor of Classics, Cambridge University
- 1999 Readership in Classics, Cambridge University
- 1984 Fellow of Newnham College Cambridge; University Lecturer in Classics
- 1979 Lectureship King's College London
Fields of Scholarship
- Roman archaeology
- Roman history
- Roman art history
- History of religion
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Princess of Asturias prize, Social Sciences
- 2016 Oxford University, Bodley Medal
- 2016 Hon D Litt, University of Liverpool and University of Kent
- 2015-16 'SPQR' shortlisted for National Critics Circle Award, LA TImes Book prize, Hessell Tiltman prize, British Book Industry Book of the Year Award
- 2014 Hon DLitt, University of Buckingham, American University in Rome
- 2013 'Confronting the Classics' shortlisted for National Critics Circle Award
- 2013 Winner of the Classical Association Prize for 'significant contribution to the public understanding of Classics'
- 2013 Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature
- 2013 Hon DLitt, University of St Andrews
- 2013 New Year Honours list, OBE (Order of the British Empire, for services to classical scholarship)
- 2012 Hon DLitt, University of Bristol
- 2011 Elected a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2011 Visiting Mellon Lecturer, National Gallery of Art, Washington
- 2010 Elected a Fellow of the British Academy
- 2010 'It's a Don's Life' longlisted for the blog section of the Orwell prize
- 2008 Sather Visiting Professor, Berkeley
- 2008 Wolfson Prize for History for 'Pompeii'
