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Dr Rachel King
Associate Professor
Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square
Institute of Archaeology
- Joined UCL
- 1st Oct 2017
Research summary
Research interests:
- ‘Outlaw’ polities in colonial southern Africa
- Interactions between hunter-gatherers and domestic stock-keepers in southern Africa
- Integrating oral historical, archival, and archaeological views of marginal environments
- Changing social dynamics and technological innovations during the historic period in southern Africa and in global perspective, especially related to the adoption of agriculture and of the horse
- Archaeological and historical constructions of ethnic identities
- Historical, archaeological, and anthropological approaches to southern African borderlands
- Innovations in approaches to historic preservation and heritage management in Africa
Teaching summary
Deputy Chair, Departmental Teaching Committee
Co-ordination:
- ARCL0189 Critical Heritage Research Skills
- ARCL0215 Presenting the Past to the Public
- ARCL0219 Interpreting Collections
Biography
2017-present: Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Studies, UCL Institute of Archaeology
Education:- 2014: DPhil, Archaeology, University of Oxford (United Kingdom). Thesis title:Voluntary Barbarians of the Maloti-Drakensberg: The BaPhuthi Chiefdom, Cattle Raiding, and Colonial Rule in the Nineteenth-Century Maloti-Drakensberg
- 2010: MSt. World Archaeology, University of Oxford (United Kingdom).
- 2009: BA Archaeology, Stanford University (USA)
Professional Background:
- Smuts Research Fellow in African Studies, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), 2015-2017
- Claude Leon Postdoctoral Fellow, Rock Art Research Inst., Univ. of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), 2015
