Michael James Squire | |
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Born | 1980 Aylesbury, England | (age 44)
Awards | Fellow of the British Academy (2020) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, MPhil, PhD) Harvard University |
Thesis | Visual and verbal interactions in Graeco-Roman antiquity (2006) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classical archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Art history and aesthetics |
Institutions | King's College London Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Humboldt University of Berlin Stanford University University of Cambridge |
Michael Squire FBA (born 1980)[1] is a British art historian and classicist. He became the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology in the University of Cambridge in 2022. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College,[2] and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.[3]
Squire has research interests in ancient Greek and Roman culture, the legacy of classical art and the history of Western aesthetics (especially in the German Enlightenment).