Nancy Thomson de Grummond (born August 26, 1940) is the M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University.[1] She specializes in Etruscan, Hellenistic and Romanarchaeology. She serves as the director of archaeological excavations at Cetamura del Chianti in Tuscany, Italy.[2] Her current research relates to Etruscan and Roman religion, myth and iconography.
Biography
De Grummond earned a PhD in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968. She has been a professor at Florida State University since 1968. She was a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1989-1990, as well as the Parker Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Brown University in 1991, and the Edgar Togo Salmon visiting professor at McMaster University in 2008.[1]
Awards and honors
De Grummond has been awarded numerous teaching awards at Florida State University including the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award (2010).[1] She is a foreign member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici.[3] She has held the AIA’s Joukowsky Lectureship, and was the Norton Lecturer in 2011/2012.[4]
Selected publications
1982
A Guide to Etruscan Mirrors. Archaeological News. 1982. ISBN9780943254005.
1996
An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology. Vol. I–II. Routledge. 1996. ISBN9781134268610.
(editor)
2006
Etruscan Myth, Sacred History, and Legend. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 2006. ISBN9781931707862.