Philippa M. Steele

Philippa M. Steele, known as Pippa Steele, wrote A Linguistic History of Ancient Cyprus, published by Cambridge University Press in 2013¹. Her subject is the inscriptions and languages of the island.

She studied for her BA, MPhil and PhD in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge⁸. Her PhD thesis of 2011 was titled "A linguistic history of Cyprus: the non-Greek languages, and their relations with Greek, c. 1600-300 BC" and won the Hare Prize; the book of 2013 grew out of it⁸. By 2013 she had also edited Syllabic Writing on Cyprus and its Context in the Cambridge Classical Studies series, a volume that includes Maria Iacovou's chapter on the Cypriot syllabary as a royal signature^2,4. Some bibliographies date that volume to 2012 and others to 2013.

She became a junior research fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 2010, held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship from 2012, and was Evans-Pritchard Lecturer at All Souls College, Oxford, in 2014⁸. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Magdalene⁸.

From 2016 to 2021 she directed CREWS (Contexts and Relations between Early Writing Systems), a five-year project funded by the European Research Council and based in the Cambridge Faculty of Classics⁸. A later article on Cypro-Minoan, the undeciphered script of Bronze Age Cyprus, thanks her and credits the project's Visiting Fellows scheme with bringing its authors together⁶. She later became principal investigator of a second project, Visual Interactions in Early Writing Systems (VIEWS), in the same faculty⁸.

Writing and Society in Ancient Cyprus appeared from Cambridge University Press in 2018 according to Wikipedia³. Other bibliographic records give 2019.