Elizabeth Fentress

Biography

Fentress was educated at the University of Pennsylvania (BA 1969 Latin), University College London (MA 1974 Etruscan and Roman Archaeology) and St Hugh's College, Oxford (DPhil 1979 Roman Archaeology, The Economic Effects of the Roman Army on Southern Numidia).

She was a visiting professor at University College London (2007–12), (2018-2023), Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford (2010) and Mellon Professor at the American Academy in Rome (1996–99).

Fentress is a former president of the International Association of Classical Archaeology (AIAC), corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries since 2006.

In 2003, she set up Fasti Online, an international database of Mediterranean archaeological excavation. Then in 2013, she was the winner of the first Archaeological Institute of America Award for Outstanding Digital Archaeology. She was an Honorary Visiting Professor at University College London between 2018 and 2023. She was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's gold medal for distinguished archaeological achievement at the San Francisco meetings in January 2022. Most recently she initiated a new platform, the North African Heritage Archives Network NAHAN, an open- access repository for the archives of North African archaeology.

Her husband James Fentress is an anthropologist and historian.