Michael Crawford (historian)

Professor Michael Hewson Crawford BA, MA, FBA (born 7 December 1939) is a British ancient historian and numismatist.

Crawford was born in Twickenham on 7 December 1939. He was educated at St Paul's School, Oriel College, Oxford (BA, MA), and the British School at Rome.

In 1964, Crawford was elected a Research Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. From 1969 until 1986 he was Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Cambridge. He was Professor of Ancient History at University College London from 1986 until 2005, becoming Emeritus Professor on his retirement. He continued to undertake some teaching in the Department of History and works on Projet Volterra.

In 1964/65, Crawford was Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. He has also been a Visiting Professor at University of Pavia (1983 and 1992), École Normale Supérieure (1984), University of Padua (1986), University of San Marino (1989), University of Milan (1990), University of L'Aquila (1990), École pratique des hautes études (1997), and École des hautes études en sciences sociales (1999).

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