Katherine McDonald
Katherine McDonald is a British linguist and epigrapher studying the languages of pre-Roman Italy.[1] She has written extensively on language contact and the history of multilingualism in ancient Mediterranean. She is currently an Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University.[1]
She attained a PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. She was previously an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, and a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at University of Exeter.[2][3]
In 2024, she was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for outstanding research in Classical Studies.[4] With this funding, she has begun a project titled "The Linguistics of Roman Slavery".[5]
Selected publications
[edit]- Italy Before Rome: A Sourcebook. Routledge, 2022.
- "The dedications to Reitia and the epigraphic visibility of women in Este and the Veneto". In E. Dupraz, & M. J. Estarán Tolosa (Eds.), Des mot pour les dieus. Dédicaces cultuelles dans les langues indigènes de la Mediterranée occidentale. Peter Lang, 2021.
- "Language and psychology". In D. Wharton (Ed.), A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity. Bloomsbury, 2021.
- Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean (editor). Cambridge, 2020.
- Oscan in Southern Italy and Sicily. Cambridge, 2015.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 "Dr Katherine McDonald - Durham University". www.durham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
- ↑ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
- ↑ "About Me". Katherine McDonald. 2013-01-10. Retrieved 2025-02-01.
- ↑ "2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners". 18 October 2024.
- ↑ "Early career researcher recognised as rising global star - Durham University". www.durham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2025-02-01.