Academic staff
Name | Position | Research and PhD supervision areas |
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Head of School, Reader in Bioarchaeology | Ancient starch analysis; organic residue analysis; microwear; technological analysis of stone and organic tools; South-East Asian and Australian archaeology; hunter-gatherer archaeology and ethnography | hjb15@le.ac.uk |
Penelope Allison | Professor of Archaeology | Household archaeology (Roman and historical); Pompeii; Roman art and archaeology; consumption approaches to Roman artefacts; space and gender; digital archaeology | pma9@le.ac.uk |
Jo Appleby | Associate Professor of Human Bioarchaeology | Human osteology; funerary archaeology; Bronze Age Britain and Europe; archaeology of the body | ja253@le.ac.uk |
Laura Basell | Associate Professor of Archaeology | Human evolution (Africa and Europe); African archaeology; prehistoric landscape archaeology; geoarchaeology (including geomatics); macro-scale lithic analyses; experimental archaeology; rock art and mobiliary art | l.basell@le.ac.uk |
José C Carvajal López | Lecturer in Historical Archaeology | Islamization; ceramics analysis; historical archaeology; Islamic archaeology and heritage; medieval and post-medieval Iberia; the Persian–Arabian Gulf | jccl2@le.ac.uk |
Neil Christie | Professor of Archaeology | Late Roman archaeology; early medieval and medieval archaeology; urbanism; defence; late Roman and early medieval Christianity | njc10@le.ac.uk |
Rachel Crellin | Lecturer in Later Prehistory | Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain; archaeological theory; metalwork wear-analysis; experimental archaeology; material culture studies; prehistoric death and burial; Bronze Age violence | rjc65@le.ac.uk |
David Edwards | Lecturer in Archaeology | Sudanese–Nubian archaeology; Sudanic Africa–trans-Saharan medieval to historical archaeology; landscape archaeology; mortuary archaeologies | dne1@le.ac.uk |
Lecturer in Biomolecular Archaeology |
Stable isotope analyses; Paleodietary reconstructions; Animal husbandry and past human-animal relationships; Historical ecology; agricultural transitions | ejg26@leicester.ac.uk |
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Oliver Harris | Associate Professor of Archaeology | Neolithic Britain; archaeological theory; archaeology of the body; prehistoric communities; emotion and affect in archaeology | ojth1@le.ac.uk |
Colin Haselgrove FBA |
Professor of Archaeology | Iron Age Britain and Europe; early coinage; Iron Age–Roman transition; later prehistoric settlement and landscape; Iron Age and Roman material culture and deposition | cch7@le.ac.uk |
Simon James | Professor of Archaeology | Archaeology of conflict; violence and military institutions; the Roman army; Rome and its neighbours; visual representation of the past | stj3@le.ac.uk |
Kevin Kay | Teaching Fellow in Archaeology | kk376@le.ac.uk | |
Turi King | Professor of Public Engagement; Reader in Genetics and Archaeology | Furthering interdisciplinary research combining the field of genetics with history, archaeology, anthropology, forensics and epidemiology | tek2@le.ac.uk |
Jack Lennon | Lecturer in Ancient History | Roman religion, ritual and magic; Roman cultural history; political landscape of 1st century BC | jjpl1@le.ac.uk |
Jane Masséglia | Lecturer in Ancient History | Hellenistic social history; status and display in the Greek world; Greek and Latin epigraphy; classical art and archaeology; funerary art; Anatolia; body language and emotions in antiquity | jeam2@le.ac.uk |
David Mattingly FBA, MAE |
Professor of Roman Archaeology | Roman Britain and Africa; Roman economy; Roman imperialism and identity; Roman landscapes; Saharan archaeology | djm7@le.ac.uk |
Andrew Merrills | Associate Professor of Ancient History | Roman, Vandal, and Berber North Africa; ancient geography; Late Antiquity and the early medieval world; the post-Roman successor states of the West | ahm11@le.ac.uk |
Deirdre O'Sullivan | Lecturer in Archaeology | Medieval archaeology and material culture, especially monasticism; urban archaeology; archaeological heritage, interpretation and presentation of the past | dmo@le.ac.uk |
Alice Samson | Lecturer in Archaeology | Indigenous Caribbean archaeology; pre-Columbian and colonial Caribbean; households, settlements and caves; integrated landscapes; material culture; indigenous religion | avms1@le.ac.uk |
Sarah Scott | Associate Professor of Archaeology | Roman provincial art; villas and mosaics; archaeological approaches to art; the antiquities market; history of archaeological publishing | sas11@le.ac.uk |
Graham Shipley | Professor of Ancient History | Landscapes, politics and economies of Hellenistic Greece; Hellenistic material culture and society; Greek geographical writings; the Peloponnese | gjs@le.ac.uk |
Dan Stewart | Lecturer in Ancient History | Hellenistic and Roman Greece; urban and rural landscapes; intersection of text and material culture; the Greek East; Roman Crete | ds120@le.ac.uk |
Sarah Tarlow | Professor of Historical Archaeology | Archaeology 1500–1900; historical archaeology of northern Europe; archaeological ethics; archaeology of death and burial | sat12@le.ac.uk |
Jeremy Taylor | Lecturer in Archaeology | Archaeology of later prehistoric and Roman landscapes; archaeology of western Roman provinces; theory and method in landscape research | jt38@le.ac.uk |
Richard Thomas | Professor of Archaeology | Zooarchaeology; past human–animal relationships; animal palaeopathology; agricultural economy; food as material culture | rmt12@le.ac.uk |
Selena Wisnom |
Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East | Assyria and Babylonia; Mesopotamian literature; Mesopotamian religion; Intellectual history of the Ancient Near East |
lsw14@le.ac.uk |
Ruth Young | Professor of Archaeology |
Archaeology of South Asia and Middle East, particularly historical periods; Post-Conflict Archaeology and Heritage |
rly3@le.ac.uk |