Catherine Morgan

Morgan was born in 1961.[1] From 1980 to 1983, she studied archaeology and anthropology at Clare College, Cambridge. She remained at Clare College to study for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in classical archaeology. Her doctoral supervisor was Anthony Snodgrass. Her doctoral thesis, titled "Settlement and exploitation in the region of the Corinthian Gulf, c.1000-700 BC", was completed in 1986.[2]

Morgan began her academic career as a Junior Research Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge between 1983 and 1986. She was then a Senior Research Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. She moved from the University of Cambridge to Royal Holloway, University of London in 1992. There, she was a lecturer in classics until 1997.[3]

In 1997, Morgan moved to King's College London.[4] She was a lecturer and then reader, before being appointed Professor of Classical Archaeology in 2005.[3] In 2012, she was visiting professor at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.[5] From 2007 to 2015, she served as the twenty second director of the British School at Athens.[6]

In October 2015, she was appointed a senior research fellow in classics at All Souls College, University of Oxford. She is also Professor of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Oxford.[3][7]

In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours, Morgan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 'for services to classical scholarship'.[8][9]

In 2011, Morgan was elected a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America.[10] In May 2014, she was elected a Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute.[11] She is also an Honorary Member of the Archaeological Society of Athens.[3] In July 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[12]

• Morgan, Catherine (1990). Athletes and oracles: the transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the eighth century BC. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521374514.
• Morgan, Catherine (2003). Early Greek states beyond the polis. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415089968.
• Morgan, Catherine (2004). Attic Fine Pottery of the Archaic to Hellenistic Periods in Phanagoria. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-9004138889.
• Hornblower, Simon; Morgan, Catherine, eds. (2007). Pindar's Poetry, Patrons, and Festivals: From Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199296729.
• Macfarlane, Fiona; Morgan, Catherine, eds. (2010). Exploring ancient sculpture: essays in honour of Geoffrey Waywell. London: Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. ISBN 978-1905670208.