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Professor Catherine Steel is a leading scholar in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Glasgow, where she has held the position of Professor of Classics since 2007. Her research focuses on Roman political history, rhetoric, and the works of Cicero, with notable contributions to understanding Republican Roman orators and the institutional history of the Senate. She earned her BA (1995) and DPhil (1999) from the University of Oxford.
Her key achievements include a €1.1M ERC Starting Grant (2012–2017) for editing fragments of Republican Roman orators and a British Academy mid-career fellowship (2011–2012) investigating the Roman Senate's institutional legacy. She has authored or edited over 50 scholarly works, including monographs on Cicero and the end of the Roman Republic.
Professor Steel’s awards include Fellowships of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2023) and the British Academy (2022). She actively supervises PhD students on topics like Cicero’s just war theory, Severan monarchy, and rhetoric in Roman law. Her teaching spans Roman history and Latin prose literature, and she contributes to academic leadership roles in the UK classical community.
