Academic and Research
Marilena Alivizatou PhD Research Associate
Cultural heritage and critical museology; intangible heritage; participatory and relational museology; museum and heritage ethnography; heritage and development.
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.
Paul Basu PhD Reader in Material Culture and Museum Studies
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 in Archaeology
GIS applications; landscape survey; value theory; the Bronze Age eastern
Mediterranean.
Martin Bridge PhD Lecturer in Dendrochronology
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.
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 in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
Cultural heritage, museum studies: cultural rights; heritage myth and
memory; maritime and museum history; landscape; cultural revivalism; Alexandrian
and Egyptian cultural heritage.
Cristina Castillo PhD NERC Research Associate
Archaeobotany of South-East Asia; urbanism; political, economic and social landscape of Peninsular
Thailand.
Anna Clement PhD Leverhulme Trust 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.
Enrico Crema PhD ERC Research Associate
Human behavioural ecology; settlement archaeology; hunter-gatherer studies; quantitative and computational methods in archaeology.
Paolo Del Vesco PhD Marie Curie Research Fellow
Ancient Egyptian Household Religion; History of Egyptology and Near Eastern Archaeology
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.
Roxana Ferllini MA Senior Lecturer in Forensic Archaeological Science
Forensic Anthropology and Human
Rights; Trauma analysis on human bone.
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 Professor of 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 in the Archaeology of the Roman Empire
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 in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Archaeology
Early prehistory of Western Asia; behavioural changes relating
to the origin of modern humans; origins of cultivation and pastoralism;
palaeoenvironmental
reconstruction; faunal analysis.
Margarita Gleba PhD ERC Principal Research Associate
Archaeological textiles and technological, economic and social aspects of textile production in antiquity; Mediterranean archaeology.
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 in Materials Science
Applications of techniques of physical science to archaeology; technology,
provenance and deterioration of ceramics, glass, stone and metals.
James Hales BSc Senior Teaching Fellow in Conservation
Assessment of the problems of bats in churches.
Sue Hamilton PhD Professor of Prehistory
European prehistory, particularly first millennium BC; technological analysis
of prehistoric pottery; landscape archaeology.
Susanna Harris PhD ERC Research Associate
Cloth in prehistoric societies; Neolithic to Bronze Age in Western Europe; Experimental archaeology.
Rodney Harrison PhD Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies
Archaeology and colonialism; global heritage; archaeology of the contemporary past.
Simon Hillson PhD Professor of Bioarchaeology
Bioarchaeology, dental anthropology and dental palaeopathology.
David Jeffreys PhD Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology
Archaeology of the Nile valley, especially alluvial settlements.
Tim Kerig PhD ERC Research Associate
Cultural-evolutionary processes; economic archaeology.
Jane Kershaw PhD British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The archaeology
of northwest Europe 400-1000; trade and exchange; Viking economy and settlement.
David Kertai PhD Research Associate
Late Assyrian architecture and archaeology; cultural formation of empires.
Stuart Laidlaw BSc Photographer
The importance of photography, by conventional or digital methods, within
archaeological recording.
Mark Lake PhD Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
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.
Borja Legarra Herrero PhD Teaching Fellow in Greek Archaeology
Mediterranean and Aegean archaeology; state formation; GIS analyses in archaeology; archaeology and anthropology of death; Landscape archaeology and survey methods.
Kris Lockyear PhD Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
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.
Katie Manning DPhil ERC Research Associate
Zooarchaeology; palaeoecology; cultural evolution.
Louise Martin PhD Senior Lecturer in Zooarchaeology
The role of animals in past societies, focusing on prehistoric western
Asia.
Marcos Martinón-Torres PhD Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Materials
Archaeological science and material culture.
John Merkel PhD Lecturer in Conservation and Materials Science
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 Lecturer in Public Archaeology
Archaeology, anthropology and history of modern conflict; community archaeology; public archaeology; history and philosophy of archaeology.
Theano Moussouri PhD Lecturer in Museum Studies
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.
David Orton PhD ERC Research Associate
Neolithic and early Chalcolithic of the Balkans and Anatolia; zooarchaeology; Mesolithic-Neolithic transitions in Europe; Bioarchaeology, historical ecology, and conservation.
Michael Pante PhD ERC Research Associate
Human evolution and anatomy; African prehistory; Hominin subsistence strategies; Taphonomy.
Simon Parfitt BSc Senior Research Fellow
Vertebrate archaeozoology; Pleistocene and Palaeolithic archaeology of Western Europe, North Africa, Southern Russia and the Caucasus; Vertebrate taphonomy.
Mike Parker Pearson PhD Professor of British Later Prehistory
Prehistoric Britain and Europe in the 1st millennia BC and AD; Funerary archaeology; Public archaeology and heritage; Ethnoarchaeology and material culture.
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 in Conservation of Archaeological Artefacts
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 of Archaeological
Conservation
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 of Egyptology and Petrie Museum Curator
History of
state/institutionalisation; Gender; Egyptian language; Museology; Ethics in
archaeology and anthropology.
Miljana Radivojević AHRC Research Associate
Archaeometallurgy; Ancient economies; Balkan archaeology; Neolithic and Chalcolithic archaeology; Archaeometry.
Thilo Rehren Professor of Archaeological Materials and Technology and Director of UCL-Qatar
Archaeological Materials and Technology.
Andrew Reid PhD Senior Lecturer in Eastern African
Archaeology
Archaeology of Eastern and Southern Africa; Livestock and Complex Societies;
Historical Archaeology.
Andrew Reynolds PhD Professor of Medieval
Archaeology
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.
Daniela Rosenow PhD Marie Curie Research Fellow
Glass production in ancient Egypt; Late Antique glass from the Eastern Mediterranean; Egyptian Late Period sacred architecture.
Tim Schadla-Hall MA Reader in Public Archaeology
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 of Theoretical Archaeology and Director of the Institute of Archaeology
Archaeological theory; European Neolithic and Bronze Age.
Ellen Shlasko PhD Research Associate
Archaeological surveying and geophysics; late Iron Age and Roman archaeology; public engagement; community archaeology.
Bill Sillar PhD Senior Lecturer in Archaeology
Archaeology and ethnography of the Andes; ceramics; material culture and
technology.
Ulrike Sommer PhD Senior Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology
Neolithic of Europe; History of Archaeology; Lithic technology.
Rachael Sparks PhD Lecturer/Keeper of Museum Collections
Near Eastern archaeology; cultural interaction between Egypt and the
Levant; material culture studies; Flinders Petrie in Palestine.
James Steele PhD Reader in Archaeology and Faculty Vice-Dean for Research
Evolution of speech and tool use; modelling of diffusion processes; cognitive mechanisms
underlying both language processing and action recognition.
Dean Sully Lecturer in Conservation
Conservation of organic materials; the Gresham Ship Project.
Jeremy Tanner PhD Reader in Classical and Comparative
Art
Greek and Roman art and architecture; sociology of art; art theory and criticism;
comparative historical studies of art and religion.
Adrian Timpson ERC Research Associate
Computer modelling; statistical analysis; population genetics and archaeology.
Ignacio de la Torre PhD Reader in the Archaeology of Human Evolution
Lithic technology; site formation processes; Palaeolithic archaeology; hunter-gatherers.
Kathryn Tubb BA Conservator/Lecturer in Cultural Heritage
Archaeological conservation and the trade in cultural heritage.
Marc Vander Linden PhD ERC Senior Research Associate
Spatial and temporal variation of
material culture in Later European
Prehistory; radiocarbon chronology and
the correlation of archaeology and linguistics.
Alison Weisskopf PhD NERC Research Associate
Archaeobotany,
specialising in phytolith research with a focus on the development of
agricultural systems and data analysis in phytolith research; 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 of Aegean Archaeology
Aegean archaeology; landscape archaeology; ethnoarchaeology; complex
societies; ceramics.
Tim Williams Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Site Management
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 in the Archaeology of the Levant
Archaeology of the Levant and southern Anatolia; neolithic societies; trade
and early urbanism; food processing and prehistoric diet; anthropological
approaches to archaeology.
