Janet DeLaine is an Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. After obtaining her doctorate from the University of Adelaide, she held posts in Roman archaeology at the University of Reading and, most recently, the University of Oxford. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America, and has lectured widely in Europe, North America and Japan. Her research focuses on the built environment of the Roman world, where her publications have been fundamental in the development of the archaeology of construction as a new discipline within classical archaeology.
