Alex Mullen (academic)

Alex Mullen FSA (born 14 October 1982) is an ancient historian, sociolinguist and Roman archaeologist. She is currently an Associate Professor in Classical Studies at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Alex Mullen

FSA
Born (1982-10-14) October 14, 1982
Awards
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline
  • Ancient Historian
  • Linguist
  • Archaeologist
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of Nottingham

Early life and education

Mullen studied for an undergraduate degree at Jesus College, Cambridge.[1] She completed an M. Phil and PhD, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, also at the University of Cambridge.[2]

Career

From 2008–2011 Mullen was a Lumley Research Fellow, at Magdalene College, Cambridge. She was a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, from 2011–2015.[1] In 2017 she was awarded a European Research Council starting grant for the project The Latinization of the North-Western Roman Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Archaeology.[3] She has published widely on issues of linguistics, bilingualism, and social identity, utilising texts, epigraphy and archaeology. In 2017 she was elected as a Fifty-Pound Fellow at All Souls College.[1]

Awards and honours

Mullen's 2013 monograph, Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: multilingualism and multiple identities in the Iron Age and Roman periods, received the James Henry Breasted Prize in 2014 from the American Historical Association.[4] In 2018, Mullen was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Classics.[5] Mullen was elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 26 June 2021.[6]

Selected publications

Books
  • Mullen, A and James, P (eds) 2012. Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press.
  • Mullen, A, 2013. Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean: Multilingualism and Multiple Identities in the Iron Age and Roman Periods. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mullen, A. and C. Ruiz Darasse 2018. Gaulish. Language, Writing, Epigraphy. University of Zaragoza Press.

Journal articles
  • Mullen, A., 2007. Linguistic evidence for Romanization: continuity and change in Romano-British onomastics Britannia. 35–61
  • Mullen A., 2015. ‘In both our languages’: Greek-Latin code-switching in Roman literature Language and literature 24.3, 213–232

References
  1. "All Souls College Oxford". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  2. Mullen, Alex (2013), "Multiple voices", Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, pp. 3–52, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139105743.004, ISBN 9781139105743
  3. "The Latinization of the North-Western Roman Provinces: Sociolinguistics, Epigraphy and Archaeology". latinnow.eu. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. "James Henry Breasted Prize Recipients | AHA". www.historians.org. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  5. "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2018 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  6. "26 June ballot results". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
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