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Page last updated: May 9, 2012

University of Oxford
Faculty of Classics and Somerville College


Sybille Haynes Lecturership in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art and Katherine and Leonard Woolley Fellowship at Somerville College

Applications are invited for the newly created post of Sybille Haynes Lecturer in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology and Art. The post has been made possible by the outstanding generosity of the great Etruscologist Sybille Haynes and other private donors in combination with the Katherine and Leonard Woolley Fund of Somerville College.

The successful candidate will be familiar with the range of material and visual culture of ancient Italy and Etruria in the first millennium BC. He or she will have a specialist knowledge within that area and period, and be able to offer a wide perspective on the archaeology of other contemporary Mediterranean cultures with which the Etruscans and other pre-Roman Italian cultures were connected. He or she must possess a good research record, including a doctorate in an appropriate area, and experience of teaching.

The post is a University Lecturership and will be held in association with a Fellowship at Somerville College. The appointment will begin from 1 October 2012 or as soon thereafter as is practicable. The lecturer will belong to the Faculty of Classics and will also be a member of the School of Archaeology. The successful candidate will be appointed on the appropriate level of Oxford University’s University Lecturer salary scale, (£42,883 - £57,581 per annum).

Further details, including details of how to apply, are available below or from Mr Peter Meredith, Classics Faculty Board Secretary, Ioannou Centre for Classics and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LU (email: peter.meredith@classics.ox.ac.uk ; tel. +44 (0)1865-288385).

The closing date for applications is 1.00pm Friday 8 June 2012.