De Grummond earned a PhD in
art history from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1968. She has been a professor at Florida State University since 1968. She was a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1989-1990, as well as the Parker Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at
Brown University in 1991, and the Edward Togo Salmon visiting professor at
McMaster University in 2008.
Awards and honors De Grummond has been awarded numerous teaching awards at Florida State University including the
Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award (2010). She has held the
AIA’s Joukowsky Lectureship, and was the Norton Lecturer in 2011/2012. In 2026, she will be awarded the Gold Medal by the
Archaeological Institute of America. ==Selected publications==