Barbara Borg

Barbara Borg
FSA
Born 26th December 1960
Germany
Nationality German
Academic background
Alma mater Heidelberg University, Göttingen University, Ruhr-University Bochum
Thesis Mumienporträts – Chronologie und kultureller Kontext
Academic work
Discipline Classical Archaeology
Sub-discipline Geoarchaeology
Institutions University of Exeter
Notable works

Crisis and ambition: Roman tombs and burial customs in the third century CE

Roman tombs and the art of commemoration: contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE

Barbara Elisabeth Borg FSA (born 26 December 1960) is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter. She is known in particular for her work on Roman tombs, the language of classical art, and geoarchaeology.

Career

Borg studied Classical Archaeology, Philosophy and Geology at Ruhr-University Bochum from 1981-1985 and gained her PhD at Georg-August-University, Göttingen, in 1990 with the thesis Mumienporträts – Chronologie und kultureller Kontext. Borg gained her Habilitation and venia legendi for Classical Archaeology at Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg in 1999 with the thesis Der Logos des Mythos – Allegorien und Personifikationen in der frühen griechischen Kunst.[1]

From 1993 to 2004 Borg held various teaching and research positions in Germany including acting Head of Department and Director of the Collection of Antiquities at the Archaeological Institute of Ruprecht-Karls-University. In 2004 she moved to the University of Exeter as professor of Classical Archaeology. She became Head of Classics in 2010.[2]

Borg has held a number of visiting fellowships, including the Hugh Last Fellowship at the British School at Rome (2013),[3] the Senior Onassis Fellowship at the Waterloo Institute for Hellenic Studies (2012),[4] and a Getty Scholarship at the Getty Research Institute (2011).[1][5]

Borg has been a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute since 2006,[1] was elected to the Academy of Europe in 2012,[6] and was elected as Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2015.[7]

Borg's recent work on Roman tombs and burial customs of the 2nd and 3rd centuries, resulting in two monographs in 2013 and 2018, has been widely praised due to Borg's meticulous and thorough treatment of the material evidence:

The thorough treatment of surviving evidence ensures that this study will endure as the primary point of reference for its subject. John Pearce (commenting on Crisis and ambition: tombs and burial customs in third-century CE Rome)[8]

Borg has produced through her contextual approach a detailed study of the burial customs of third-century Rome that puts the epoch in a place of its own, worthy of further specialist studies. Her study can also serve as first access point to many of the main burial monuments discussed. Her main arguments are convincing and open a new view on an interesting transitional period. Ralf Bockmann (commenting on Crisis and ambition: tombs and burial customs in third-century CE Rome)[9]

Borg has commented on how her work on funerary culture aims to bring together all available evidence and demonstrate how customs were shared between Christians and non-Christians in the Roman world.[10]

Selected publications

  • Roman tombs and the art of commemoration: contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
  • A Companion to Roman Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
  • Crisis and ambition: tombs and burial customs in third-century CE Rome (Oxford University Press, 2013)
  • with H von Hesberg and A Linfert Die antiken Skulupturen in Castle Howard (Wiesbaden, Reichert, 2005)
  • Paideia: the world of the Second Sophistic (Berlin, de Gruyter, 2004)
  • Der Logos des Mythos. Allegorien und Personifikationen in der frühen griechischen Kunst (Wilheim Fink Verlag, 2002)
  • "Der zierlichste Anblick der Welt" : ägyptische Porträtmumien (Mainz, von Zabern, 1998)
  • Mumienporträts : Chronologie und kultureller Kontext (Mainz, von Zabern, 1996)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: CV". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  2. ↑ "Professor Barbara Borg | Classics and Ancient History | University of Exeter". humanities.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  3. ↑ Borg, Barbara E. (2013). "Hugh Last Fellowships". Papers of the British School at Rome. 81: 388–389. doi:10.1017/S0068246213000275. ISSN 0068-2462.
  4. ↑ "CANADIAN CLASSICAL BULLETIN - BULLETIN CANADIEN DES ÉTUDES ANCIENNES". cac-scec.ca. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  5. ↑ "Scholar Year 2010/2011 (Getty Research Institute)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  6. ↑ Hoffmann, Ilire Hasani, Robert. "Academy of Europe: Borg Barbara Elisabeth". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  7. ↑ "Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries". www.sal.org.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
  8. ↑ Crisis and Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century AD Rome. Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture & Representation. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2013-11-15. ISBN 9780199672738.
  9. ↑ Bockmann, Ralf (2017-03-04). "Crisis & Ambition. Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome by Barbara Borg (review)". Journal of Early Christian Studies. 25 (1): 149–151. doi:10.1353/earl.2017.0005. ISSN 1086-3184.
  10. ↑ "Crisis & Ambition: Tombs and Burial Customs in Third-Century CE Rome by Barbara Borg | Classical Studies Graduate Program". classicalstudies.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-31.
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