Lynne Lancaster


Lynne C. Lancaster is an American Roman archaeologist specialising in Roman architecture and the topography of Rome.

Biography

Lancaster grew up in LaGrange, Georgia and graduated from LaGrange High school. She undertook her BArch at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and her MPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Lancaster is currently a Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University, where she has been based since 1997. In 2018 Lancaster was appointed as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge of the Humanities at the American Academy in Rome.

Awards

Lancaster was awarded the Humanities Rome Award by the British School at Rome in 1993-1994. From 2001-2001 Lancaster held the Phyllis W. G. Gordan Rome prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.
Lancaster received the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the American Institute for Archaeology in 2007 for Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome, and from 2010-2011 Lancaster held the AIA Joukowsky Lecturership.

Publications

Since 1989, Lancaster has been married to fellow archaeologist and educator, Tom Carpenter, who specializes in Greek iconography and the ancient peoples of South Italy. Together they have travelled the Mediterranean extensively and lived in England and Italy.