Lucy Grig Explained

Lucy Grig is Professor in Roman History and Head of Classics at the University of Edinburgh.^{[1] [2]}

Career

Grig was a lecturer at the University of Reading from 2000 to 2004, with a break during 2001 to 2002 to be a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome.^[3] She is a member of the Governing Board of the International Late Antiquity Network, and previously a member of the committee for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Grig is an editor for Late Antiquity for the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

She was awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the academic year 2016-17, in order to pursue the project 'Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400-550'.^[4]

In October 2017 she was part of the expert panel for Radio 4's In Our Time episode on Constantine and in November 2014 for the episode on Aesop.^{[5] [6]}

Publications

Articles and chapters

• 'Caesarius of Arles and the campaign against popular culture in late antiquity', Early Medieval Europe, 26 (1) 2018, pp. 61–81
• 'Life and death in Late Antiquity: Religious rituals and popular culture'. In: Lössl, J. and J. Nicholas, B. (eds.) A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018, pp. 455–473
• 'Cities in the ‘long’ Late Antiquity, 2000–2012 – a survey essay', Urban History, 40 (3) 2013, pp. 554 – 566
• 'Deconstructing the symbolic city: Jerome as guide to late antique Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome, 80 (2012) pp. 125–143
• 'Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique church'. In: Margaret Atkins, R. (ed.) Poverty in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 145–161
• 'Portraits, Pontiffs and the Christianization of Fourth-Century Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome, 72 (2004), pp. 203–230
• 'Torture and Truth in Late Antique Martyrology', Early Medieval Europe, 11 (2002), pp. 321–336

External links

• Staff profile page at University of Edinburgh
• Shoft interview via University of Edinburgh

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lucy Grig . Ed.ac.uk . 2017-06-27 . 2017-10-05.
2. Web site: Lucy Grig . Lucy Grig - Classics . University of Edinburgh . 2012-07-16 . 2017-10-05.
3. Book: Andrew., Wallace-Hadrill. The British School at Rome : one hundred years. 2001. British School at Rome. British School at Rome.. 0904152359. London. 223. 48572069.
4. Web site: Dr Grig awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. 13 Jun 2016. www.ed.ac.uk. 22 Jan 2019.
5. Web site: In Our Time, Constantine the Great . BBC . 2017-10-05.
6. Web site: In Our Time, Aesop . BBC . 2014-11-20 . 2017-10-09.