Dr Andrew Wallace-Hadrill OBE takes up the Mastership of Sidney Sussex College this month, becoming the 25th Master since the College was founded in 1596.

A Roman social and cultural historian, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill has been for the last 14 years Director of the British School at Rome. He was Professor of Classics at the University of Reading from 1987, a position he retained during his secondment to the British School. An expert on Pompeii and Herculaneum, he has directed major projects at both sites, including the Herculaneum Conservation Project for which he will continue to take responsibility.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill was awarded the Archaeological Institute of America's James R. Wiseman Award in 1995 for his book, Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum (1994). He has written several other books including, Suetonius: the Scholar and his Caesars (1985), Augustan Rome (1993), and most recently, Rome's Cultural Revolution, published by Cambridge University Press in 2008. He has held visiting fellowships at Princeton University and the Getty Museum.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is the son of the Mediaeval historian John Michael Wallace-Hadrill. He is a frequent contributor to radio and television broadcasts, and is well known for his outspoken views on how conservation of the archaeological site of Pompeii was being neglected. His links to Cambridge stretch back decades. He was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Classics at Magdalene College from 1976-83 and a Joint Lecturer in Classics at Jesus College from 1979-83.

In 2004 he was made an OBE in the New Year's Honours for services to Anglo-Italian cultural relations.

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill will be accompanied in his new role at Sidney Sussex by his wife, Jo, and he has pledged to ensure that his role as Master is ‘at the heart of College life, generating institutional self-confidence and promoting and building on a shared vision.”

He succeeds Professor Dame Sandra Dawson who stood down in August after ten years as Master, but the College hopes it will continue to benefit from her energy and wisdom as she will retain rooms and remain an active member of the College Community.

 

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