Lincoln Professorship of Classical Archaeology and Art

The Faculty of Classics and Lincoln College intend to appoint to the Lincoln
Professorship of Classical Archaeology and Art with effect from 1 October 2025
or as soon as possible thereafter. The Lincoln Professorship is the most
prominent professorship in the English-speaking world for research and
teaching in the art and material culture of the ancient Greek and wider
Eastern Mediterranean world. The Faculty welcomes applications from those with
expertise in this broadly defined area.





You should have a high international research profile and broad interests and
sympathies in order to be able to contribute to and promote this increasingly
interdisciplinary research field in Oxford. You will be expected to exercise
academic leadership through your own research and teaching, by seeking
research grants, by promoting a culture of obtaining research funding amongst
colleagues and graduate students, and by building relationships with potential
donors to Oxford Classics. You will supervise and give lectures and seminars
for graduate students, and lecture for undergraduate courses in Classical
Archaeology and Art, across a wide range of subjects in the discipline. You
will also be expected to take a leading role in the ongoing efforts to
diversify the Classics Faculty and its curriculum.





This role is complementary to the Professorship of the Archaeology of the
Roman Empire, which is concerned with the Roman world and with material
culture, while the Lincoln Professorship is concerned with the Greek world,
the eastern Mediterranean, and visual culture and representation. The Lincoln
Professor also serves as the Curator of the collection of plaster casts of
Greek and Roman statues and reliefs held by the Ashmolean Museum. The
professor may put on exhibitions from time to time, and promotes and organises
its use by the Classics Faculty and by others for instruction in classical
art.





The closing date for applications is **12:00 noon UK time on Monday 13 January
2025**. Interviews are expected to be held in late February or early March.
Informal enquiries are welcome and may be made in strict confidence to
Professor Llewelyn Morgan, Chair of the Classics Faculty Board
(llewelyn.morgan@bnc.ox.ac.uk).