• Lea-Stirling
  • Professor

    Faculty of Arts
    Department of Classics
    349 University College
    220 Dysart Rd.
    University of Manitoba
    Winnipeg, MB R3T 2M8

    Phone: 204-474-7357
    lea.stirling@umanitoba.ca

    Preferred pronouns: she, her

Currently accepting graduate students - yes

  • Master's

Teaching

  • CLAS 1280 - Roman Culture and Civilization
  • CLAS 2210 - Women in Ancient Greece and Rome
  • CLAS 2680 - Roman Art and Architecture
  • CLAS 3710 - The Archaeology of the Roman Army

Biography

Lea Stirling co-directed excavations at the Roman town of Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia) from 1995-2006, working at cemeteries, a pottery production site, and a bath building. She has also studied Roman and Late Antique statuary from sites in France, Greece, Turkey, and Tunisia. 

Education

  • PhD (Classical Art and Archaeology), University of Michigan, 1994
  • MA (Latin), University of Michigan, 1994
  • MA (Classical Art and Archaeology), University of Michigan, 1990
  • BA (Classics), University of Alberta, 1988

Selected publications

  • Ben Lazreg, N., L. M. Stirling, and J. P. Moore, eds. 2021. Leptiminus (Lamta). Report No. 4. "The east cemetery: stratigraphy, ceramics, non-ceramic finds and bio-archaeological Studies, 2 vols." (Journal of Roman Archaeology supplement 110). Portsmouth RI. 
  • Jacobs, I. and L. M. Stirling. 2017. “Re-using the gods. A 6th-c. statuary display at Sagalassos and a re-evaluation of pagan-mythological statuary in Early Byzantine civic space.” Journal of Roman Archaeology 30: 196-226.
  • Kristensen, T. M. and L. Stirling, eds. 2016. The Afterlife of Greek and Roman sculpture: Late antique responses and practices. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Stirling, L. M. 2008. “Pagan Statuettes in Late Antique Corinth: Sculpture from the Panayia Domus.” Hesperia 77: 89-161.
  • Stone, D. L. and L. M. Stirling, eds. 2007. Mortuary landscapes of North Africa (Phoenix Suppl. 63) Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Stirling, L. M. 2005. The learned collector: Mythological statuettes and classical taste in late antique Gaul. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Awards

  • 2020 - Archaeological Institute of America Publication Subvention, from von Bothmer Publication Fund (for Leptiminus 4)
  • 2001-2012 - Canada Research Chair in Roman Archaeology

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