Who's Who at Accordia
The
key people involved in the foundation, development and current running
of Accordia are listed below, together with contact details and
research interests and role in Accordia. Many more people than
this have been involved in helping out over the years and in
collaborating on Accordia research programmes and publications.
If anyone who has been involved in Accordia or a related research
project would like their details or a link to their own web pages added
to our list of associates (subject to Editorial approval), please
contact us and let us have the relevant details.
Dr John Wilkins, FSA
Director of Accordia, founded Accordia while he was Head of
the Department of Mediterranean Studies at Queen Mary and
Westfield College, University of London, and is to be credited
with / blamed for the original acronymic title! Originally
a blue-blooded classical scholar from Kings College, Cambridge,
he worked with John Chadwick on Mycenaean. He went to Rome
as Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome, originally
to work with Massimo Pallotino on Etruscan, where however
John Ward-Perkins, the then Director of BSR, 'introduced'
him to archaeology by enlisting him, in the military sense,
on the School's excavation at Veii. This 'forced labour' was
the original cause of his migration into archaeology, and
his work has been inter-disciplinary since that time. His
principal research interest is the development of pre-Roman
Italy. He is an expert in the pre-roman languages of Italy,
and is particularly interested in the sociolinguistic landscape
of early Italy. He was co-Director (with Ruth Whitehouse)
of the Botromagno excavation,
and (with Armando de Guio and Ruth Whitehouse) of the
Alto-Medio Polesine - Basso Veronese field survey. He
is currently co-Director (with Ruth Whitehouse) of two successive
AHRB-funded research Projects (into Developmental
Literacy and the Establishment of Regional and State Identity
in early Italy, and Etruscan
Literacy in its Social Context, 8th - 5th centuries BC ) both based
at the Institute of Archaeology UCL.
Contact Details: Accordia Research
Institute, c/o Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon
Square, London WC1H 0PY.
Email:
accordiaa@gmail.com
Professor Ruth Whitehouse, FSA
Founder
Member of Accordia, Member
of Editorial Committee
Ruth Whitehouse is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in the
Institute of Archaeology UCL. She has published books and
articles on Italian prehistory, prehistoric ritual and religion,
gender archaeology and, most recently, on early writing in
Italy. She has jointly directed a number of field projects
in Italy and Menorca, including the Botromagno
excavation, and the
Alto-Medio Polesine - Basso Veronese project. She
is currently joint director (with Sue Hamilton) of the
Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project. She is also
Co-Director (with John Wilkins) of two successive AHRC-funded
projects investigating early writing and literacy in Italy
(Developmental
Literacy and the Establishment of Regional and State Identity
in early Italy, and Etruscan
Literacy in its Social Context, 8th - 5th centuries BC
), both based at the Institute of Archaeology UCL.
Contact Details: Institute of Archaeology,
University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H
0P.
Email: R.Whitehouse@ucl.ac.uk
Web:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/whitehs.htm
Professor Michael Edwards
Founder
Member of Accordia:
Michael Edwards is Professor of Classics at Queen Mary College,
University of London and is currently on a secondment as Director of
the Institute of Classical Studies. His research centres on classical
Greek oratory and rhetoric. He has written a number of books and
articles on the Attic Orators, including commentaries on speeches of
Antiphon, Andocides, and Lysias, and a translation of the speeches of
Isaeus for the University of Texas series. Currently he is preparing a
text of Isaeus and co-editing a source book for early Greek rhetoric.
Other areas of interest include classical literary criticism,
biography, and later Latin.
Contact Details: Institute of Classical
Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.
Dr Edward Herring, FSA
Senior
Research Fellow, member of Editorial Committee and Founder
Member of Accordia:
Dr
Edward Herring is Dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences,
and Celtic Studies at the National University of Ireland,
Galway. He also holds a Senior Lectureship in Classical Archaeology
at the same institution. He has published extensively on Iron
Age and Classical south Italy, and in particular on the relations
between the Greek, Roman and native (Italic) populations.
This has led him to a wider interest in identity in the ancient
world. He has worked on excavations and field surveys in the
Western Mediterranean for more than 25 years, notably on an
Iron Age to Roman Republican site at Botromagno, Gravina di
Puglia (BA), south Italy, on a multi-period field survey in
the Po plain (Progetto
Alto-Medio Polesine – Basso Veronese), and most
recently on a multi-period survey based in the Tavoliere and
Gargano areas of northern Puglia, south Italy.
He
serves on several national committees in the Republic of Ireland.
As well as being one of the editors of Accordia Research
Papers, he sits on the editorial board of Classics
Ireland. In 2006, he was elected to the Fellowship of
the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Contact details: College of Arts, Social
Sciences, and Celtic Studies, National University of Ireland,
University Road, Galway, Republic of Ireland.
Email: Edward.Herring@nuigalway.ie
Web:
http://www.nuigalway.ie/classics/research.html#herring
Dr Kathryn Lomas, FSA
Senior Research Fellow and member of
Editorial Committee: Dr
Kathryn Lomas is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology at
UCL. Her primary research interests are in the archaeology and
history of Italy and western Mediterranean from the Early Iron Age to
the end of the Roman Republic. She has particular research
interests in the urbanisation of the western Mediterranean and in
issues of ethnic identity and culture-contact, and she has published
widely on these themes. She is currently engaged on a major
research project funded by the AHRC, and based at UCL, to investigate developmental
literacy in ancient Italy,
and its cultural and social contexts. She serves on the national
council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and was
elected Fellow
of the Society of Antiquaries in 2007.
Contact Details: Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34
Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY.
Email: K.Lomas@ucl.ac.uk
Web:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/profiles/lomas.htm;
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ancient-literacy
Mike Seager Thomas
Research
Fellow: Mike Seager Thomas is a principal team member
on the Tavoliere-Gargano Prehistory Project. He is also a typesetter/editor
with Accordia publications. He studied archaeology at the Institute
of Archaeology UCL between 1993 and 1996, and has been a full-time
professional archaeologist ever since - first as an excavator
for various commercial field units, and later as a finds specialist
and a freelance field-supervisor/director. His particular interests
include the study (macroscopic) of excavated soils and sediments,
stone finds, archaeology and the landscape and British prehistoric
pottery. Recent major projects in which he has been involved at
a senior level include the excavation for the Sussex Archaeological
Society of Norton Iron Age settlement, the analysis of the prehistoric
pottery from the Lea Valley 2012 Olympics excavations (for Pre-Construct
Archaeology), and the Institute of Archaeology, UCL/ University
of Manchester, Easter Island Landscapes of Construction project.
He has also worked on field projects in Wales, Ireland, France
and Israel.
Contact: Mike Seager Thomas, Artefact Services, Lewes, Sussex.
Email: mst.artefactservices@virgin.net
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