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Professor Alex Mullen is a Professor of Ancient History and Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (Cantab). His research integrates sociolinguistics, epigraphy, and archaeology to explore cultural and linguistic histories of Iron Age and Roman Britain and Gaul. He leads the ERC-funded LatinNow project on Latinization in the Roman West and collaborates with initiatives like the Roman Inscriptions of Britain in Schools (UKRI). His expertise spans bilingual Roman epistolography, digital epigraphy, and the sociolinguistics of multilingualism in antiquity.
Education: MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab). Current projects include ANR-funded Gaulish inscriptions studies, SSHRC-funded technology for ancient text analysis, and British Academy-funded research on writing tablets from Britannia. He supervises doctoral students and teaches at both the University of Nottingham and All Souls College.
Research focuses on sociolinguistic dynamics in Roman Gaul and Britain, including language shift, literacy, and material culture. His work bridges classical studies with interdisciplinary methods, emphasizing epigraphic evidence and digital humanities. He is a co-author of influential books such as The Language of Letters and Manual of Roman Everyday Writing.
- Grants: ERC, ANR, SSHRC, British Academy, UKRI
- Teams: Roman Inscriptions of Britain in Schools (UKRI), Canterbury Hinterland Project
