Academic and Research
Marilena Alivizatou PhD Teaching Fellow in Museum Studies
Museum history and theory; critical heritage studies; intangible heritage; participatory museology; museums and communities.
Mark Altaweel PhD Lecturer in Near Eastern Archaeology
Mesopotamian history and archaeology; GIS; complex systems; agent-based modelling.
Manuel Arroyo-Kalin PhD British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Historical ecology; Landscape history; South American pre-Columbian history and archaeology.
Banu Aydinoglugil MSc Çatalhöyük Project Research Assistant
Neolithic archaeology of Turkey; Çatalhöyük.
Paul Basu PhD Reader
Cultural heritage, memory and landscape; Sierra Leone; material culture, migration and diaspora; museums and exhibition practice; culture and development; cultures of colonialism
Andrew Bevan PhD Senior Lecturer
GIS applications; landscape survey; value theory; the Bronze Age eastern
Mediterranean.
Martin Bridge PhD Lecturer
Dendrochronology; use of living trees and historical timbers to aid analyses;
responses of trees to environmental change; investigation of methodologies
for tree ring dating.
Cyprian Broodbank PhD Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology
Mediterranean dynamics; island archaeology; method
and theory.
Stuart Brookes PhD Research Associate
Medieval Western Europe; landscape archaeology; archaeology and lifelong learning.
Richard Bussmann DPhil Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology/Egyptology
Social and cultural anthropological approaches to
Ancient Egypt; cultural diversity and long-term development of ancient
Egyptian society; correlation of ancient Egyptian material culture,
images, and texts.
Beverley Butler PhD Senior Lecturer
Cultural heritage, museum studies: cultural rights; heritage myth and
memory; maritime and museum history; landscape; cultural revivalism; Alexandrian
and Egyptian cultural heritage.
Sarah Byrne PhD Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Pacific ethnography; indigenous representation in museums; oral history; landscape archaeology; theories of social practice.
Anna Clement PhD Research Associate
Bioarchaeology, dental anthropology, human evolution and behaviour.
Sue Colledge PhD ERC Research Associate
Archaeobotany; quantitative methods of assessment of landscape and plant resource use through time.
Jago Cooper PhD Research Associate
Caribbean and Pacific archaeology; climate change; coastal and island environments; human ecodynamics.
Paolo Del Vesco PhD Marie Curie Research Fellow
Ancient Egyptian Household Religion; History of Egyptology and Near Eastern Archaeology
Sean Downey PhD ERC Research Associate
Agent-based modelling; GIS; Mayan Archaeology; Ecological Anthropology
Kevan Edinborough PhD ERC Research Associate
Chronometric modelling; prehistoric demography; evolutionary archaeology; prehistory of Northwest Europe and Northwest Coast of the Americas; computer applications in archaeology
Shahina Farid Çatalhöyük Project Research Associate
Roxana Ferllini MA Lecturer
Forensic Anthropology and Human
Rights; Trauma analysis on human bone
Joe Flatman PhD Senior Lecturer
Maritime Archaeology; Nautical Archaeology; Submerged Cultural
Heritage; Medieval Archaeology & Art History; Archaeological Theory.
Ian Freestone PhD Professor of Archaeological Materials and Technology
Early materials and technology; application of
scientific methods to the investigation of artifacts and their interpretation.
Dorian Fuller PhD Reader in Archaeobotany
Archaeobotany; origins and Spread of Agriculture; Plant domestication; later Prehistory/ Protohistory of South Asia, including Neolithic and
Chalcolithic cultures of India, rise and fall of Harappan Civilisation; archaeology of Nubia and
Sudan.
Andrew Gardner PhD Senior Lecturer
Archaeology of the Roman world and early Medieval Europe; social theory in archaeology; approaches to violence and warfare in past societies.
Andrew Garrard PhD Senior Lecturer
Early prehistory of Western Asia; behavioural changes relating
to the origin of modern humans; origins of cultivation and pastoralism;
palaeoenvironmental
reconstruction; faunal analysis.
Elizabeth Graham PhD Professor of Meosamerican Archaeology
Maya archaeology; urban
environmental impact in the humid tropics; coastal trade; religion and iconography
in Colonial Mesoamerica; ecotourism and development. Research areas: Belize,
Cuba.
Dafydd Griffiths PhD Lecturer
Applications of techniques of physical science to archaeology; technology,
provenance and deterioration of ceramics, glass, stone and metals.
James Hales BSc Teaching Fellow and Collections Conservator
Assessment of the problems of bats in churches.
Sue Hamilton PhD Professor
European prehistory, particularly first millennium BC; technological analysis
of prehistoric pottery; landscape archaeology.
Simon Hillson PhD Professor
Bioarchaeology, dental anthropology and dental palaeopathology.
Antony Hudek PhD Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Histories of exhibitions; cultures of display; archives.
David Jeffreys PhD Senior Lecturer
Archaeology of the Nile valley, especially alluvial settlements.
Tim Kerig PhD ERC Research Associate
Cultural-evolutionary processes; economic archaeology.
Stuart Laidlaw BSc Photographer
The importance of photography, by conventional or digital methods, within
archaeological recording.
Mark Lake PhD Senior Lecturer
Development and use of quantitative and computational methods for
studying the past, especially agent-based computer simulation,
geographical information systems and those drawing on aspects of
Darwinian evolutionary theory and complexity theory.
Kris Lockyear PhD Lecturer
Late Iron Age and Roman archaeology, including numismatics; East European
(especially Romanian) history and archaeology; ethnicity and nationalism;
field methods; statistics in archaeology; typesetting and publication.
Kevin MacDonald PhD Professor of African Archaeology
History and Prehistory of the Peoples of West Africa (including the Diaspora).
Richard Macphail PhD Senior Research Fellow
Soil micromorphology of archaeological soils and sediments.
Sébastien Manem PhD Marie Curie Research Fellow
Cultural and technological evolution; anthropology of technology.
Katie Manning DPhil ERC Research Associate
Zooarchaeology; palaeoecology; cultural evolution.
Louise Martin PhD Senior Lecturer
The role of animals in past societies, focusing on prehistoric western
Asia.
Marcos Martinón-Torres PhD Senior Lecturer
Archaeological science and material culture.
John Merkel PhD Lecturer
Archaeometallurgy; conservation of metal artefacts; early metallurgical
processes and sites in the Near East, Europe and South America.
Gianluca Miniaci PhD Marie Curie Research Fellow
Egyptian funerary culture; material culture transmission and social transformation.
Gabriel Moshenska PhD Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow
Archaeology, anthropology and history of modern conflict; community archaeology; public archaeology; history and philosophy of archaeology.
Theano Moussouri PhD Lecturer
Understanding museum audiences; free-choice learning; parent-child learning; use of qualitative methods to study learning.
José Oliver PhD Reader in Latin American Archaeology
Complex 'chiefdom' societies in the Caribbean and South America; origins of
agriculture and paleoeconomic systems in the South American Neotropical Forests;
symbolism, iconography, power and ceremonial centers in the Caribbean and South
American Lowlands.
Simon Parfitt BSc Research Fellow
Vertebrate archaeozoology; Pleistocene and Palaeolithic archaeology of Western Europe, North Africa, Southern Russia and the Caucasus; Vertebrate taphonomy.
Dominic Perring PhD Centre of Applied Archaeology/Archaeology South-East, Director
Origins and nature of urban society; Roman town planning and domestic architecture; cultural resource management in the UK and Middle East; archaeological method and theory.
Renata Peters MSc Lecturer
Collections originated by Indigenous Peoples from the America;
investigative conservation; South American archaeology; public
outreach; ethics and politics of conservation.
Matthew Pope PhD Senior Teaching Fellow in Palaeolithic Archaeology
Lithic technology and taphonomy; early human use of space;
palaeolithic hunting strategies and social organization; Early Upper
Palaeolithic colonisation of northern Europe.
Elizabeth Pye MA Professor
Conservation method and ethics; conservation of wall paintings; conservation
of organic, particularly ethnographic, materials.
Patrick Quinn PhD Senior Research Associate in Ceramic Petrography
Materials Analysis; Ceramic Petrography; Prehistoric Mediterranean; California Archaeology; Consultancy.
Stephen Quirke PhD Professor and Petrie Museum Curator
History of
state/institutionalisation; Gender; Egyptian language; Museology; Ethics in
archaeology and anthropology.
Thilo Rehren Professor
Archaeological Materials and Technology.
Andrew Reid PhD Senior Lecturer
Archaeology of Eastern and Southern Africa; Livestock and Complex Societies;
Historical Archaeology.
Andrew Reynolds PhD Professor
Early medieval archaeology of north-western Europe; archaeology of standing
buildings; methodologies employed in archaeology of documented periods.
Corinna Riva PhD Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology
Pre-Roman Italy and the central Mediterranean; east-west interaction and
comparative archaeology of the 1st-millennium BC Mediterranean; theoretical
approaches to cultural contact; Mediterranean 'marginal' landscapes and
connectivity; archaeological survey and settlement studies.
Mark Roberts BA Principal Research Fellow
Palaeolithic southern Britain; excavation of Boxgrove,
West Sussex.
Arlene Rosen PhD Professor of Environmental Archaeology
Geoarchaeology; Climate and Society; Phytolith Analysis; Proto-Historic Near
East; Archaeology of Central Asia.
Tim Schadla-Hall MA Reader
Public archaeology; museums management; archaeology and the law; illicit
antiquities; country houses; the early mesolithic in NW Europe.
Julia Shaw PhD Lecturer in South Asian Archaeology
South Asian archaeology and art; ancient Indian religions; theories of
religious and economic change; state formation and urbanisation;
ancient irrigation and water management; politics of archaeology;
landscape archaeology.
Stephen Shennan PhD Professor and Director of the Institute of Archaeology
Archaeological theory; European Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Bill Sillar PhD Senior Lecturer
Archaeology and ethnography of the Andes; ceramics; material culture and
technology.
Ulrike Sommer PhD Senior Lecturer
Neolithic of Europe; History of Archaeology; Lithic technology.
Rachael Sparks PhD Lecturer/Keeper of Collections
Near Eastern archaeology; cultural interaction between Egypt and the
Levant; material culture studies; Flinders Petrie in Palestine.
James Steele PhD Director, AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity
Evolution of speech and tool use; modelling of diffusion processes; cognitive mechanisms
underlying both language processing and action recognition.
Dean Sully Lecturer
Conservation of organic materials; the Gresham Ship Project.
Jeremy Tanner PhD Reader
Greek and Roman art and architecture; sociology of art; art theory and criticism;
comparative historical studies of art and religion.
Ignacio de la Torre PhD Reader
Lithic technology; site formation processes; Palaeolithic archaeology; hunter-gatherers.
Kathryn Tubb BA Conservator/Lecturer
Archaeological conservation and the trade in cultural heritage.
Tao Wang PhD Reader
Bronze Age China; history of Chinese archaeology; architecture and urban studies.
Alison Weisskopf PhD Research Associate
Archaeobotany; environmental archaeology; Asian archaeology
David Wengrow DPhil Professor of Comparative Archaeology
Comparative archaeology of the Middle East, North-East Africa, and Eastern
Mediterranean; early state formation; cognitive and evolutionary approaches
to culture; prehistoric art and aesthetics; intellectual and social history
of archaeology and anthropology.
Todd Whitelaw PhD Professor
Aegean archaeology; landscape archaeology; ethnoarchaeology; complex
societies; ceramics.
Tim Williams Senior Lecturer
Urbanism; recording & analysis of
complex stratigraphy; integration of complex data sets; management of
archaeological sites and cultural landscapes.
Sally Worrell MA Prehistoric and Roman Finds Advisor, Portable Antiquities Scheme
Prehistoric and Roman material culture.
Katherine Wright PhD Senior Lecturer
Archaeology of the Levant and southern Anatolia; neolithic societies; trade
and early urbanism; food processing and prehistoric diet; anthropological
approaches to archaeology.
