Dr Abigail Graham FSA is a Classical Archaeologist specialising in monumentality and epigraphy in Roman Asia Minor.  

After undertaking her MPhil and DPhil at Lincoln College, Oxford under the supervisorship of Professor Berth Smith, she spent 13 years as a lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the Warwick University. Her current project is in collaboration with the University of London and the British Museum on the epigraphy and history of excavations at Ephesus, especially with regard to paratext, bilingualism, erasures, copies, and collective monuments.  

Dr Graham is also course coordinator of the Postgraduate Epigraphy Course at the British School in Rome (since 2012), and co-coordinator of the Practical Epigraphy Workshop (since 2015) for the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents (Oxford). She is a member of the editorial board for the “New Classicists” online journal and has contributed to numerous blogs, podcasts, radio and television including Sky History, the Discovery Channel and National Geographic (Empire Builders, Cracking the Code, Strangest Things (season 1-3). Her area of particular interest is Caria and Ionia, having spent several seasons excavating the site of Aphrodisias as part of a joint Oxford and New York University team.