Nancy Thomson de Grummond | |
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| Born | August 26, 1940 Lake Charles, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (PhD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical archaeology |
Sub-discipline | Etruscan studies |
| Institutions | Florida State University |
| Website | classics.fsu.edu/person/nancy-t-de-grummond |
Nancy Thomson de Grummond (born August 26, 1940) is an American art historian and archaeologist who is currently the M. Lynette Thompson Professor of Classics and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. She specializes in Etruscan, Hellenistic and Roman archaeology. She serves as the director of archaeological excavations at Cetamura del Chianti in Tuscany, Italy. Her current research relates to Etruscan and Roman religion, myth and iconography.
De Grummond earned a PhD in art history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968. She has been a professor at Florida State University since 1968. She was a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1989-1990, as well as the Parker Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at Brown University in 1991, and the Edward Togo Salmon visiting professor at McMaster University in 2008.
De Grummond has been awarded numerous teaching awards at Florida State University including the Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award (2010). She is a foreign member of the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. She has held the AIA’s Joukowsky Lectureship, and was the Norton Lecturer in 2011/2012. In 2026, she was awarded the Gold Medal by the Archaeological Institute of America.
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