About
Current post: Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
Visiting Professorships and funded leave
2017-18 Rydell Visiting Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College, St Peter MN
October 2016: Dean’s Distinguished Women’s Lecturer, Notre Dame, IN
2008-15 Honorary Visiting Professor, Peninsula Medical School
Summer semester 2014: Käthe Leichter Visiting Professor in Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Vienna
October 2008: delivered the Crake Lectures, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB, Canada
April 2005 Visiting Professor, Dept of Classics, University of Texas, Austin (4 meetings of graduate class in ancient medicine and 1 seminar)
Sept-Dec 2005 AHRC Research Leave Award
March 2002 Landsdowne Visiting Lecturer, University of Victoria, British Columbia (3 lectures and 1 seminar)
Feb-June 2001 Fellow, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies
Jan-June 1995 British Academy Research Leave Award
Previous posts
2011-17 Professor of Classical Studies, The Open University
2004-11 Professor of the History of Classical Medicine, Department of Classics, University of Reading
1996-2004 Reader in the History of Classical Medicine, Reading, Department of Classics (formerly in departments of Classics and History); initially funded by five-year Wellcome Trust University Award Education
Postgraduate (University College London, 1980-1983)
1985 PhD (History) awarded: ‘From parthenos to gynê: the dynamics of category’
April 1983, July 1986 Fondation Hardt, Geneva
Jan-April 1981 Centre de recherches comparées sur les sociétés anciennes, Paris
Undergraduate (University College London, 1977-1980)
1980 B.A. (Hons) Ancient History/Social Anthropology (First Class)
1979 M.G. Smith Prize (History)
1978 Kaberry Prize (Anthropology), Dolley Prize (History)
