Lynne C. Lancaster

Lynne C. Lancaster (born 1964) is an American Roman archaeologist specializing in Roman architecture and the topography of Rome.

Biography Lancaster grew up in LaGrange, Georgia and graduated from LaGrange High school. She undertook her BArch at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, and her MPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford. Lancaster was Professor in the Department of Classics and World Religions at Ohio University where she taught from 1997 to 2020 and was chair of the department 2017–18. She is currently Rawson Visiting Scholar in the Classics Department at University of Cincinnati.

Awards Lancaster was awarded the Humanities Rome Award by the British School at Rome in 1993–1994. From 2001 to 2001 Lancaster held the Phyllis W. G. Gordan Rome prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Together they have traveled the Mediterranean extensively and lived in England and Italy.