Barbara E. Borg is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter and Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University. She has published widely on Greek and Roman art and archaeology. Her books include Mumienporträts: Chronologie und Kontext (1999), Der Logos des Mythos – Allegorien und Personifikationen in der frühen griechischen Kunst (2002), Crisis and ambition: tombs and burial customs in third-century CE Rome (2013), Roman tombs and the art of commemoration: contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE (2019), and the edited volume Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic (2004). She is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes, including a Getty Research Fellowship, a Senior Onassis Fellowship, the Hugh Last Fellowship at the British School at Rome, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.