Mary Beard (classicist)

Dame

Mary Beard

DBE FSA FBA FRSL
Dame; Mary Beard; DBE FSA FBA FRSL
	Beard in 2017
Born	Winifred Mary Beard; 1 January 1955; Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England
Spouse	Robin Cormack (m. 1985)
Awards	Wolfson History Prize (2009); Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2018); Princess of Asturias Awards (2016); Bodley Medal (2016);
Academic background
Education	Newnham College, Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Thesis	The state religion in the late Roman Republic: a study based on the works of Cicero (1982)
Doctoral advisor	John Crook
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub-discipline	Ancient Rome; Roman art; Classical archaeology;
Institutions	King's College London; University of Cambridge; University of California, Berkeley;
Notable works	The Roman Triumph ; SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA, FRSL (born 1 January 1955) is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge. She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature.

Beard is the classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, where she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist". In 2014, The New Yorker characterised her as "learned but accessible".

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