Philippa M. Steele
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| education = University of Cambridge
| discipline = Classics
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Philippa (Pippa) M. Steele is a classical scholar and linguist. She is a Director of Studies at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge and a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on ancient Cypriot and Aegean languages, and the writing systems in the ancient Mediterranean.{{Cite web |title=Steele |url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/steele |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=Magdalene College |language=en}}
Academic career
Philippa Steele studied for her BA, MPhil and PhD at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Her 2011 PhD thesis, "A linguistic history of Cyprus: the non-Greek languages, and their relations with Greek, c. 1600-300 BC" was awarded the Hare Prize, and published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press in 2013.{{Cite web |title=Cambridge University Reporter Special |url=https://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2009-10/special/06/57.html |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=www.admin.cam.ac.uk}}{{Citation |title=Acknowledgements |date=2013 |work=A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c.1600–300 BC |pages=xiii–xiv |editor-last=Steele |editor-first=Philippa M. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/linguistic-history-of-ancient-cyprus/acknowledgements/A67779FFD448484795EF05FB584BF955 |access-date=2025-02-01 |series=Cambridge Classical Studies |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-04286-5}}
In 2010, she became a Junior Research Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge before gaining a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2012.{{Cite journal |title=The Mystery of Ancient Cypriot Clay Balls |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/799/BAR24-16-Steele.pdf |journal=British Academy Review |issue=24 |date=Summer 2014 |publisher=The British Academy}} In 2014, she was Evans-Pritchard Lecturer at All Souls College, University of Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Steele |url=https://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/user/steele |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=Magdalene College |language=en}} She has been the recipient of two ERC grants for projects on ancient writing systems. Between 2016 and 2021 she was the director of the five-year ERC funded project Contexts and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.{{Cite web |last=Administrator |date=2016-04-04 |title=Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) |url=https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/contexts-of-and-relations-between-early-writing-systems-crews |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=www.classics.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-10-24 |title=Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems |url=https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=crewsproject.wordpress.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Unravelling the relationships between early writing systems |url=https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/442977-unravelling-the-relationships-between-early-writing-systems |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=CORDIS {{!}} European Commission |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=XHE0080 - Evidence on The impact of exiting the European Union on higher education |url=https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/74845/html/ |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=committees.parliament.uk}} Here she worked alongside other notable classical philologists such as Dr Willemijn Waal from Leiden University.{{Cite web |date=2019-01-27 |title=List of Former Visiting Fellows |url=https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/visiting-fellows/ |access-date=2025-02-01 |language=en}} She is currently the Principle Investigator of the Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS) project, also at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.{{Cite web |last=Steele |first=Dr Philippa |date=2013-08-28 |title=Dr Philippa Steele |url=https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/directory/philippa-steele |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=www.classics.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}
Public engagement
Philippa Steele received the Arts and Humanities Impact Fund Award in 2020 in order to produce free teaching resources for the study of ancient writing systems.{{Cite web |title=REF 2021 |url=https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/submissions/3c18e702-b55e-4847-ac2f-fa91e42f7156/impact |access-date=2025-02-01}} She has also spoken about the importance of her pastoral role and experiences as a female academic as the Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.{{Cite web |date=2014-02-28 |title=The meaning of success: Insights from women at Cambridge by University of Cambridge - Issuu |url=https://issuu.com/uni_cambridge/docs/the_meaning_of_success_final_revise/82 |access-date=2025-02-01 |website=issuu.com |language=en}}
Selected publications
- Steele, P. (ed.) (2022). Writing around the Ancient Mediterranean: Practices and Adaptations, co-editor Philip J. Boyes.
- The Social and Cultural Contexts of Historic Writing Practices, Oxford 2021, co-editors Philip J. Boyes and Natalia Elvira Astoreca.
- Steele, P. (2018).Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus (1st ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Steele, P. (2017). Understanding Relations Between Scripts: The Aegean Writing Systems (1st ed.). United Kingdom: Oxbow Books.
- Steele, P. (2013). A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus: The Non-Greek Languages, and their Relations with Greek, c. 1600-300 BC . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. {{ISBN|9781107337558}}
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