R. Ross Holloway *60

Ross died June 30, 2022, of natural causes in Hightstown, N.J.

Born Aug. 15, 1934, in Newton, Mass., Ross graduated from Amherst in 1956. After earning a master’s degree in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania in 1957, he completed a Ph.D. in history of art at Princeton in 1960. 

A Rome Prize enabled Ross to study for two years at the American Academy in Rome. After a one-year appointment at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1964, Ross joined Brown’s classics department. He was appointed Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor, retiring in 2006.

An archaeologist of the Mediterranean, especially ancient Italy, Ross conducted long-term fieldwork and wrote The Archaeology of Ancient Sicily and The Archaeology of Early Rome and Latium. He co-founded Brown’s Center for Classical Archaeology and Art to promote the study of archaeology independent of the departments of classics and history of art. He was an accomplished numismatist who researched and published ancient coins.

Ross was awarded honorary degrees from Amherst and the University of Louvain, and the Archaeological Institute of America’s Gold Medal.

Predeceased by his wife Nancy, Ross is survived by daughters Anne Holloway Studholme ’84 and Susannah Holloway ’86, and five grandchildren.

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