Dr. Valerie M. Hope is a Lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England.
Dr Hope studied for her first degree in Ancient History at University College Swansea, and then took an MA in Roman Social History at the University of Reading. A Ph.D. on Roman funerary monuments followed. She then taught in the Classics Department at the University of Reading for several years, before joining the Department of Classical Studies at the Open University.