Staff profile

I joined the Department of Classics and Ancient History in 2021, having previously worked at Birkbeck, the CNRS at Aix-Marseille Université and King's College London.

I am an ancient historian; the focus of my research is the cultural and historical significance of Latin epigraphy, from antiquity to the present day. I am interested in how people – both ancient and modern – responded to Latin inscriptions, how their texts were composed and read, and what epigraphy contributed to the landscape of antiquity.

• Latin Epigraphy
• Epigraphic forgery
• Digital Epigraphy
• Roman Tripolitania
• History of Collecting

• G.B. Piranesi Print Catalogue Project
• Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

• 2019: : Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
• 2018: : Rome Award, British School at Rome

Chapter in book

• Barron, Caroline (2020). The (lost) Arch of Titus: the visibility and prominence of victory in Flavian Rome. In Reconsidering Roman power: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions [online]. Berthelot, K. Publications de l’École française de Rome.
• Barron, Caroline (2018). Latin inscriptions and the eighteenth-century art-market. In Animo Decipiendi: Rethinking fakes and authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works. Guzmán, A. & Martinez, J. Barkhuis. 265-285.

Journal Article

• Barron, Caroline (2021). Cardinal Alessandro Albani’s epigraphic collections and their influence on collecting in the eighteenth century. Studi sul Settecento 37: 185-200.
• Barron, Caroline (2020). ‘amator concordiae, ornator patriae. The Latinisation of Punic titles in early imperial Lepcis Magna’. Libyan Studies 51: 10-23.