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Dr Katherine McDonald is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University, joining in 2021. Her research focuses on the languages of ancient Italy, historical sociolinguistics, and epigraphy, with a particular interest in multilingualism, migration, gender linguistics, and slavery. She holds a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize (2024) and has led projects funded by the Leverhulme Trust and AHRC.
Education: Studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and held prior academic positions at the University of Cambridge and University of Exeter.
Research emphasizes the social contexts of ancient languages, including Oscan, Etruscan, and Latin, and explores language contact in pre-Roman Italy. Current projects investigate enslaved individuals as language learners in the Roman Empire.
Awards include the 2018 AHRC Early Career Fellowship and 2015 Rome Award. She actively supervises graduate students in ancient linguistics and epigraphy.
