Professor Caroline Vout | |
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Born | c. 1972 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Occupation | Academic |
Website | http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/caroline-vout |
Caroline Vout FSA (born c. 1972) is a British classicist and art historian. As of 2019[update] she is a Professor in classics at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Christ's College. In 2021 she became Director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge.[1]
Vout was born in Durham.[2] She read Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, graduating in 1995, before taking a master's degree in Roman and Byzantine Art at the Courtauld Institute.[3] She then returned to Cambridge for her doctorate, which was supervised by Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard.
Upon finishing her doctorate she lectured at the Universities of Bristol and Nottingham until being appointed to as a fellow of Christ's College in 2006.[4]
She curated an exhibition on Antinous at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and is on the academic advisory panel for the department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum.[5] She has written for The Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian,[6] and appeared on the 2011 BBC Four documentary Fig Leaf: The Biggest Cover-Up In History and on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time.