[1] From 2018 to 2021 Lancaster served as the Andrew W. Mellon Humanities at the American Academy in Rome.
[2] She is currently Rawson Visiting Scholar in the Classics Department at University of Cincinnati.
[5][2] Lancaster received the James R. Wiseman Book Award from the American Institute for Archaeology in 2007 for Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome,[1] and from 2010 to 2011 Lancaster held the AIA Joukowsky Lecturership.
[1] Since 1989, Lancaster has been married to fellow archaeologist and educator, Tom Carpenter, who specializes in Greek iconography and the ancient peoples of South Italy.
[6] Together they have traveled the Mediterranean extensively and lived in England and Italy.