page_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people
section_title: Classicists and archaeologists
hierarchical_section_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people / Alumni / Historians / Classicists and archaeologists
caption_attribution_description: English: Miriam Griffin at Somerville College
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable people associated with Somerville College, Oxford, including alumni and fellows of the college. This list consists almost entirely of women, due to the fact that Somerville College was one of the first two women's colleges of the University of Oxford, admitting men for the first time in 1994. The college and its alumni have played a very important role in feminism.
  Somervillians include prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi, Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin, journalist Esther Rantzen, reformer Cornelia Sorabji, writers Marjorie Boulton, Vera Brittain, A. S. Byatt, Susan Cooper, Penelope Fitzgerald, Winifred Holtby, Nicole Krauss, Iris Murdoch and Dorothy L. Sayers, politicians Shirley Williams, Margaret Jay and Sam Gyimah, Princess Bamba Sutherland and her sister, philosophers Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Onora O'Neill, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, actress Moon Moon Sen, soprano Emma Kirkby and numerous activists.
context_section_description: Caroline Alexander (1956), American author and classicist; first woman to publish a full-length English translation of Homer's Iliad
  Polymnia Athanassiadi, Greek Professor Emerita in Late Antique History
  Dame Averil Cameron DBE FSA FBA FRHistS (1940), professor emerita of Late Antique and Byzantine History; former Warden of Keble College, Oxford; second woman to receive the Kenyon Medal
  Dorothy Charlesworth FSA (1927–1981), Roman archaeologist and glass specialist; served as Inspector of Ancient Monuments
  Gillian Clark FBA, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History
  Barbara Craig (1915–2005), archaeologist, classicist; Principal of Somerville College
  A. M. Dale FBA (1901–1967), classicist and academic
  Claudine Dauphin FSA (1950), French archaeologist specialising in the Byzantine period
  Elaine Fantham (1933–2016), British-Canadian classicist; President of the American Philological Association
  Miriam T. Griffin (1935–2018), American classical scholar; held the first Women in Classics dinner (at Somerville College)
  Jill Harries, Emeritus Professor in Ancient History, known for her work on late antiquity
  Helen Hughes-Brock (1938), Minoan and Mycenaean archaeologist
  Sarah C. Humphreys, classical scholar
  Dame Kathleen Kenyon DBE (1906–1978), leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent, best known for her excavations of Jericho; has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century; refined the Wheeler-Kenyon method; Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford
  Donna Carol Kurtz (1943), American classicist specializing in Greek art; first Beazley Archivist at the Ashmolean Museum
  Maria Millington Lathbury (1856-1944), classical scholar, archaeologist and numismatist; mother-in-law of Arthur Evans
  Irene Lemos FSA, classical archaeologist specialising in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age of Greece
  Tessa Rajak (1946), ancient historian, primarily focused on Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman periods; expert on the writings of Josephus
  Joyce Reynolds FBA (1918), classicist and academic, specialising in Roman historical epigraphy; first woman awarded the Kenyon Medal
  Christina Riggs, American historian, museum curator, and academic; specialises in the history of archaeology, photography, and ancient Egyptian art
  Katherine Routledge (1866–1935), archaeologist and anthropologist who initiated the first true survey of Easter Island (leader of the Mana Expedition)
  Susan Sherratt (1949), archaeologist of Bronze Age Greece, Cyprus, and the eastern Mediterranean
  Margerie Venables Taylor (1881–1963), archaeologist and editor of the Journal of Roman Studies; held posts including Secretary for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
  Audrey Williams FSA (1902–1978), Welsh archaeologist; first woman president of the Royal Institution of South Wales
  Katharine Woolley (1888–1945), archaeologist who worked principally at the Mesopotamian site of Ur; married to archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley; inspiration for the murder victim in the novel Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie
  Maria Wyke (1957), professor of Latin at UCL
caption: Miriam T. Griffin
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