Professor Catherine Morgan awarded OBE

Catherine Morgan, Professor of Classical Archaeology, has received an OBE for her service to classical scholarship. Professor Morgan's research has focused on the history and archaeology of Early Iron Age and Archaic Greece and notably the Corinthian Gulf and the Ionian Islands. Since 2002 she has co-directed the Stavros Valley Project on Ithaka, which aims to produce an archaeological atlas of northern Ithaka and assess the long-term impact of Italian colonisation, local polis development, the rise of Hellenistic monarchies and Roman imperial control. She is currently on secondment as Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens.