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

• 2019:

  Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

  : Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
• 2018:

  Rome Award, British School at Rome

  : Rome Award, British School at Rome

Chapter in book

• Barron, C. (2020). The (lost) Arch of Titus: the visibility and prominence of victory in Flavian Rome. In K. Berthelot (Ed.), Reconsidering Roman power: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions [online]. Publications de l’École française de Rome. https://doi.org/10.4000/books.efr.4809
• Barron, C. (2018). Latin inscriptions and the eighteenth-century art-market. In A. Guzmán, & J. Martinez (Eds.), Animo Decipiendi: Rethinking fakes and authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works (265-285). Barkhuis
• Barron, C. (2017). Sacred to Hercules Invictus. “A very curious inscription” in the collection of Thomas Hollis. In A. Guzmán, & I. Velázquez (Eds.), De Falsa et Vera Historia (131-144). Ediciones Clásicas

Journal Article

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