John Adamson is a Professorial Research Fellow of the Humanities Research Institute, Chairman of its Advisory Board, and a Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. Born in Australia, he was educated at the University of Melbourne, where he took a First in Classics and History, and at the University of Cambridge where he took his PhD as a Research Scholar at Christ’s College. He moved to Peterhouse on the completion of his doctorate to take up a Research Fellowship, and has remained a Fellow of the College since.