# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-richardson-jr
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:37:54.692Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-richardson-jr"
name: "Lawrence Richardson, Jr."
slug: "lawrence-richardson-jr"
description: "Lawrence Richardson Jr. was an American classicist and ancient historian educated at Yale University who was a member of the faculty of classics at Duke University from 1966 to 1991. He was married to the classical archaeologist Emeline Hill Richardson. Richardson received numerous fellowships, including a Fulbright and a Guggenheim, and support from the American Council of Learned Societies. He was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1950) and field director of the Academy's Cosa excavations (1952–1955). He was a resident of the American Academy in Rome (1979) and was its Mellon professor-in-charge of the School of Classical Studies (1981). In 2012 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Archaeological Institute of America."
tagline: "American classical philologist and archaeologist (1920-2013)"
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1920-12-02"
deathDate: "2013-07-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump