Professor Robin Osborne FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2006
- Subjects
- Archaeology, Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity , Archaeology
Summary
Robin Osborne has been Professor of Ancient History in the University of Cambridge since 2001. Educated at Colchester RGS and King's Cambridge (MA, PhD), he held a Junior Research Fellowship at King's before moving to a five-year Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1986 and then to a CUF University Lecturership at Corpus Christi College Oxford in 1989 (titular Professor, 1996).
Robin Osborne's work ranges widely over Greek history, art history, and archaeology. Most of his work concerns itself with historical questions for which material evidence is relevant, or with material evidence that raises historical issues, and he has explored some of the problems created by relying on only one sort of evidence in his History Written on the Classical Greek Body (2011). Robin Osborne is a past President of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and of the Classical Association, was Chair of the Classics Sub-Panel in REF 2014 and has been Chair of the Council of University Classical Departments. He was Senior Tutor at King's College Cambridge from 2009-2013.
Current post
University of Cambridge Professor of Ancient History
Past appointments
Corpus Christi College, Oxford University Lecturer in Ancient History
1989 - 2001
Magdalen College, Oxford Fixed Term Fellow
1986 - 1989
King's College, Cambridge Junior Unofficial Fellow
1982 - 1986
Publications
Athens and Athenian Democracy Athens and Athenian Democracy
Robin Osborne - Published in 2010 by Cambridge University Press
The History Written on the Classical Greek Body
Robin Osborne - Published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press
Classical Landscape with Figures: The Ancient Greek City and its Countryside
Robin Osborne - Published in 1987 by ACLS History E-Book Project
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Stephen Halliwell FBA
Greek literature, especially drama; ancient poetics and aesthetics, especially in Plato, Aristotle and Longinus
Professor Denis Feeney FBA
Roman history and Latin literature of the Republic and early Principate, with a special interest in time, religion, and institutions of literary culture
Professor Michael Parker Pearson FBA
The prehistory of Britain and western Europe from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. The archaeology of death and burial. The archaeology of Madagascar. Stonehenge and its landscape
