Carol van Driel-Murray

Carol van Driel-Murray (b. 20 May 1950) is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in the role of women and studying leather. After studying at the University of Liverpool, van Driel-Murray worked at the University of Amsterdam for 37 years and the University of Leiden for three before she retired in 2015.

Carol van Driel-Murray
Born (1950-05-20) May 20, 1950
Isleworth, United Kingdom
Occupation
  • Archaeologist
  • Lecturer
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisStudies in Leatherwork from Roman Archaeological Sites North-Western Europe (1987)
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology
Sub-disciplineRoman archaeology
Institutions

Early life

Carol was born on 20 May 1950 in Isleworth. She completed a degree in archaeology at the University of Liverpool in 1971. Four years later, she moved to the Netherlands and married Govert van Driel.[1]

Career

In 1975, Carol van Driel-Murray joined the University of Amsterdam as a researcher, and was promoted to lecturer in 1982.[1] She organised the Roman Military Equipment Conference twice (1987 and 1994) and edited the conference proceedings.[2] van Driel-Murrary joined the University of Leiden in 2012 and retired in 2015.[1]

In 2018, Oxbow Books published a festschrift dedicated to van Driel-Murray, edited by Tatiana Ivlevla, Jasper de Bruin, and Mark Driessen.[3]

gollark: Enjoy `dog`, the anticat.
gollark: I would send it here, but the program is 8.8MB.
gollark: Well, the opposite of `cat` is `dog`, so that.
gollark: I could implement this! In Rust!
gollark: It will be megabytes in size, use asynchronous IO for some reason, and support arbitrary targets to read from (and send to, because why not).

References
  1. Breeze, David (2018). "Carol van Driel-Murray: an appreciation". In Ivleva, Tatiana; de Bruin, Jasper; Driessen, Mark (eds.). Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781789250152.
  2. "ROMEC". ARMES. 2015-10-07. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
  3. "Embracing the Provinces". www.oxbowbooks.com. Retrieved 2019-06-28.
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