Latinization, Local Languages, and Literacies in the Roman West
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Alex Mullen (PhD, FSA, FRHistS) is Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Nottingham and Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded LatinNow project exploring life and languages in the Roman western provinces. She previously held research fellowships at the Universities of Cambridge (Magdalene) and Oxford (All Souls College). She is the author of Southern Gaul and the Mediterranean (Cambridge, 2019), co-author (with Olivia Elder) of The Language of Letters (Cambridge, 2019), and co-editor (with Patrick James) of Multilingualism in the Graeco-Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2012). In recognition of her interdisciplinary work, she won a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Classics in 2018. Anna Willi is obtained her PhD from Zürich University, Switzerland. Following her postdoctoral research on Roman writing equipment, literacy, and non-monumental inscriptions as a Research Fellow on the ERC-funded LatinNow project, she was awarded a research grant from the Gerda Henkel foundation for her project Tabulae Ceratae (TabCer) on Roman stylus tablets as everyday objects. She is currently Curator of Ancient Mediterranean Life at the British Museum.