{{Short description|Australian archaeologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox academic |name=Janet DeLaine |alma_mater=[[University of Adelaide]] |signature_size= |signature= |influenced= |notable_ideas= |notable_works= |main_interests=Roman Archaeology, urbanism |thesis_title=Design and Construction in Roman Imperial Architecture: the Baths of Caracalla in Rome |thesis_year=1992 |thesis_url=https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/20819 |doctoral_advisor = Frank Sear<ref>{{cite web |last1=DeLaine |first1=Janet |title=Design and construction in Roman imperial architecture : the Baths of Caracalla in Rome / Janet DeLaine |url=https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/20819 |access-date=28 July 2021 |language=en |date=1992}}</ref> |workplaces=[[University of Oxford]], [[University of Reading]] |influences= | |spouse= |honorific_suffix=[[PhD]], [[Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London|FSA]] |occupation=[[Archaeologist]] |death_place= |death_date= |birth_place= |birth_date=<!--For living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per [[WP:DOB]]. Treat such cases as if only the year is known, so use {{tl|birth year and age}} or a similar option.--> |birth_name= |caption= |image= |footnotes= }} '''Janet DeLaine''' is [[Emeritus|Emeritus Fellow]] at [[Wolfson College, Oxford]] and a Fellow of the [[Society of Antiquaries of London]]. She is a Roman archaeologist whose research has focused on urban environments, with a particular focus on bath complexes, urban development and the building industry in the Roman world.
== Career == DeLaine trained in Civil Engineering and then Classics, receiving her BA (hons) and PhD the [[University of Adelaide]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/48870/1/Classics%20history.pdf |first=Ron |last=Newbold |title=Classics in the University of Adelaide, Part II: 1976-2008 |publisher=University of Adelaide}}</ref> Her doctoral thesis was on ''Design and Construction in Roman Imperial Architecture: the Baths of Caracalla in Rome.''<ref>{{Cite thesis|title=Design and construction in Roman imperial architecture : the Baths of Caracalla in Rome / Janet DeLaine|url=https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/handle/2440/20819|date=1992|degree=Thesis|language=en|first=Janet|last=DeLaine}}</ref> Her subsequent book ''The Baths of Caracalla in Rome: a Study in the Design, Construction and Economics of Large-scale Building Projects in Imperial Rome'', ''Journal of Roman Archaeology,'' Supplement 25 (Portsmouth R.I. 1997) won the Archaeological Institute of America's James R. Wiseman Award for the most significant work in archaeology in 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|title=James R. Wiseman Book Award|url=https://www.archaeological.org/grant/wiseman-book-award/|access-date=2021-03-16|website=Archaeological Institute of America}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=DeLaine|first=Janet|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-HQMAQAAMAAJ|title=The Baths of Caracalla: A Study in the Design, Construction, and Economics of Large-scale Building Projects in Imperial Rome|date=1997|publisher=Journal of Roman Archaeology|isbn=978-1-887829-25-0|language=en}}</ref>
She held the position of lecturer and then senior lecturer in archaeology at the [[University of Reading]], in the Department of Archaeology, before becoming a lecturer at the [[Institute of Archaeology (Oxford)|Institute of Archaeology]] at the [[University of Oxford]] in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Janet DeLaine|url=https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-janet-delaine#/|access-date=2021-07-28|website=www.classics.ox.ac.uk|language=en}}</ref>
In 1999 she was elected a Fellow to the Society of Antiquities of London.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dr Janet DeLaine|url=https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/dr-janet-delaine/|access-date=2021-03-16|website=Society of Antiquaries of London|language=en-GB}}</ref> Her international standing was recognized with her election as Corresponding Member of the Archaeological Institute of America in 2010,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Corresponding Members|url=https://www.archaeological.org/about/corresponding/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=Archaeological Institute of America}}</ref> and in 2014 she held the [[Japan Society for the Promotion of Science]] Senior Research Fellowship at [[Kyushu University]], in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hori|first=Yoshiki|date=January 2015|title=Special Lecture by Dr Janet DeLaine|work=Kyushu University Advanced Asian Archaeological Research Center NEWSLETTER|url=https://isgs.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~qa3rc/newsletter/newsletter4.pdf}}</ref> DeLaine has also been a Rome Scholar (1986-7) and Hugh Last Fellow (1999–2000) at the [[British School at Rome]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=BSR and the Commonwealth « The British School at Rome|url=https://www.bsr.ac.uk/about/bsr-and-the-commonwealth|access-date=2021-03-16|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=DeLaine|first=Janet|date=November 2001|title=Hugh Last Fellowships: The urban development of Ostia: a reappraisal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/papers-of-the-british-school-at-rome/article/abs/hugh-last-fellowships-the-urban-development-of-ostia-a-reappraisal/2973D3E5DC9B91C65BE36A756AFD71B9|journal=Papers of the British School at Rome|language=en|volume=69|pages=399–400|doi=10.1017/S0068246200001914|s2cid=130762522|issn=2045-239X|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
DeLaine has also lent her expertise to a number of TV documentaries.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Janet DeLaine|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3462620/|access-date=2021-07-28|website=IMDb}}</ref>
== Selected publications ==
=== Books === * Janet DeLaine: Roman Architecture (Oxford History of Art) (Oxford 2023). * Janet DeLaine, Stefano Camporeale, Antonio Pizzo (eds.) ''Arqueología de la construcción 5, Man-made materials, engineering and infrastructure: proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on the archaeology of Roman construction, Oxford, April 11–12, 2015'' (Madrid 2016) {{ISBN|978-84-00-10142-8}} * Janet DeLaine and D.E. Johnston (eds). ''Roman Baths and Bathing. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Roman Baths, Vol. 1, Bathing and Society''; ''Vol. 2 Design and Construction, Journal of Roman Archaeology'' Supplement 37 (Portsmouth RI 1999). {{ISBN|9781887829373}} * Janet DeLaine. ''The Baths of Caracalla in Rome: a study in the design, construction and economics of large-scale building projects in imperial Rome'', ''Journal of Roman Archaeology,'' Supplement 25 (Portsmouth R.I. 1997). {{ISBN|9781887829250}} * *
=== Book chapters and journal articles ===
* Janet DeLaine. 'Gardens in baths and palaestras', in ''Gardens of the Roman Empire,'' ed. by Wihelmina F. Jashemski, Kathryn L. Gleason (Cambridge 2018), pp. 165–184. {{ISBN|978-0-521-82161-2}} * Janet DeLaine. 'Baths and bathing in late antique Ostia', ''Common ground : archaeology, art, science, and humanities: proceedings of the XVIth International congress of classical archaeology, Boston, August 23–26, 2003'', ed. by [[Carol Mattusch|Carol C. Mattusch]], Alice A. Donohue and Amy Brauer (Oxford 2006), pp. 338–343 * Janet DeLaine. 'The commercial landscape of Ostia', in ''Roman working lives and urban living'', ed. by Ardle Mac Mahon and Jennifer Price (Oakville (Conn.) 2005), pp. 29–47. * Janet DeLaine. 'Designing for a market: ''medianum'' apartments at Ostia', ''Journal of Roman Archaeology'' 17.1 (2004), pp. 146–176. * *
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