[1] Dauphin obtained a PhD summa cum laude from the University of Edinburgh in 1974 presenting the thesis Inhabited Scrolls from the IVth to the VIIth Century A.D. in Asia Minor and the Eastern Provinces of the Byzantine Empire.
[2] She was a Research Fellow in Byzantine Art and Architecture at Somerville College, Oxford, from 1979 to 1983.
[1] In 1994 she obtained her Doctorat d'État ès-Lettres (Mention Très honorable et félicitations du jury à l'unanimité) from the Sorbonne University.
[1] She was elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 2 February 2007.
[3] She was appointed an Honorary Professor in Archaeology and Theology at the University of Nice.