Katherine Dunbabin is an archaeologist specialising in Roman art and Professor Emerita of Classics at McMaster University.
[3] Her first book, The mosaics of Roman North Africa: studies in iconography and patronage with the Clarendon Press, was published in 1978.
Barry Cunliffe described it as 'a contribution to classical studies of considerable significance, for not only does it give a thorough treatment to a body of material of outstanding beauty and interest, but in doing so it greatly enlivens our understanding of the social, economic and artistic systems which pervade the Roman world.
[5] While preparing a book on mosaics, Dunbabin began researching Roman dining spaces, looking particularly at how they were decorated.
This led to Dunbabin publishing a second book with Cambridge University Press, exploring how art can be used to give insight into social history.