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University of Cambridge

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5.05/4/2026

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Professor James Clackson is Professor of Comparative Philology in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He holds an MA and PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, since 1998 and Director of Studies in Classics since 1999. His research specializations encompass the history of the Latin and Greek languages, ancient sociolinguistics and bilingualism, languages and epigraphy of the ancient Mediterranean, comparative Indo-European studies, historical sociolinguistics of Latin, ancient languages of the Italian peninsula especially Sabellian and Etruscan, and the history of the Armenian language. Clackson is Principal Investigator of the AHRC-funded project ‘Greek in Italy’. He supervises graduate research on topics including the verbal system development in Indo-European dialects, language interaction between Latin, Greek, and Gaulish, the Oscan language in southern Italy, Greek borrowings in Etruscan, and language registers in ancient Greek literature.