Alex Mullen (academic)
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Born | October 14, 1982 |
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Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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Institutions | University of Nottingham |
Alex Mullen FSA (born 14 October 1982) is an ancient historian, sociolinguist and Roman archaeologist. She is currently an Associate Professor in Classical Studies at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.
Early life and education[]
Mullen studied for an undergraduate degree at Jesus College, Cambridge.[1] She completed an M. Phil and PhD, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, also at the University of Cambridge.[2]
Career[]
From 2008–2011 Mullen was a Lumley Research Fellow, at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2011–2015.[3] In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council starting grant for the project The Latinization of the North-Western Roman Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Archaeology.[4] She has published widely on issues of linguistics, bilingualism, and social identity, utilising texts, epigraphy and archaeology. In 2017 she was elected as a Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College.[5]
Awards and honours[]
Mullen's 2013 monograph, Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods, received the James Henry Breasted Prize in 2014 from the American Historical Association.[6] In 2018, Mullen was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Classics.[7] Mullen was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 26 June 2021.[8]
Selected publications[]
Books[]
- Mullen, A and James, P (eds) 2012. Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
- Mullen, A, 2013. Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Mullen, A. and C. Ruiz Darasse 2018. Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy. University of Zaragoza Press.
Journal articles[]
- Mullen, A., 2007. Linguistic evidence for Romanization: continuity and change in Romano-British onomastics Britannia. 35–61
- Mullen A., 2015. ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature Language and literature 24.3, 213–232
References[]
- ^ "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^ Mullen, Alex (2013), "Multiple voices", Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3–52, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139105743.004, ISBN 9781139105743
- ^ "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^ "(no title)". latinnow.eu. Retrieved 2019-03-08. Cite uses generic title (help)
- ^ "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^ "James Henry Breasted Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2018 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
- ^ "26 June ballot results". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- Living people
- 1982 births
- British academics
- British women academics
- 21st-century archaeologists
- Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Academics of the University of Nottingham
- Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
- Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- British women archaeologists
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London