Lucy Grig

Lucy Grig is a Senior Lecturer in Roman History and Head of Classics at the University of Edinburgh.

Career
Grig was a lecturer at the University of Reading from 2000 to 2004, with a break during 2001 to 2002 to be a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome. She is a member of the Governing Board of the International Late Antiquity Network, and previously a member of the committee for the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Grig is an editor for Late Antiquity for the Oxford Classical Dictionary.

She was awarded a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the academic year 2016-17, in order to pursue the project 'Popular Culture and the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400-550'.

In October 2017 she was part of the expert panel for Radio 4's In Our Time episode on Constantine and in November 2014 for the episode on Aesop.

Articles and chapters

 * 'Caesarius of Arles and the campaign against popular culture in late antiquity', Early Medieval Europe, 26 (1) 2018, pp. 61–81
 * 'Life and death in Late Antiquity: Religious rituals and popular culture'. In: Lössl, J. and J. Nicholas, B. (eds.) A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018, pp. 455–473
 * 'Cities in the ‘long’ Late Antiquity, 2000–2012 – a survey essay', Urban History, 40 (3) 2013, pp. 554 – 566
 * 'Deconstructing the symbolic city: Jerome as guide to late antique Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome, 80 (2012) pp. 125–143
 * 'Throwing parties for the poor: poverty and splendour in the late antique church'. In: Margaret Atkins, R. (ed.) Poverty in the Roman World. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 145–161
 * 'Portraits, Pontiffs and the Christianization of Fourth-Century Rome', Papers of the British School at Rome, 72 (2004), pp. 203–230
 * 'Torture and Truth in Late Antique Martyrology', Early Medieval Europe, 11 (2002), pp. 321–336