Academic staff
Head of School
| Name | Position | Research and PhD supervision areas | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huw Barton | Head of School, Professor 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 |
Academic Staff
| Name | Position | Research and Phd supervision areas | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Brian Costello | Teaching Fellow in Archaeology | Medieval archaeology; funerary archaeology; object biography; early medieval material culture; social memory; public education. | blc9@le.ac.uk |
| Rachel Crellin | Associate Professor of Archaeology | 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 |
| Thomas Derrick |
DL Associate Tutor | tjd14@le.ac.uk |
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| David Edwards | Lecturer in Archaeology | Sudanese–Nubian archaeology; Sudanic Africa–trans-Saharan medieval to historical archaeology; landscape archaeology; mortuary archaeologies | dne1@le.ac.uk |
| Marianne Hem Eriksen | Associate Professor of Archaeology | Viking Age archaeology; Later prehistory in Northern Europe; archaeologies of architecture, space and place; household archaeology; gender and the body; mortuary archaeology | m.h.eriksen@le.ac.uk |
| Kai Francis | Graduate Teaching Assistant | kf161@le.ac.uk | |
| Oliver Harris | Associate Professor of Archaeology | Archaeological theory; new materialism; gender and the body; Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Northwest Europe | |
| Jan Haywood |
Lecturer in Ancient History
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The Trojan War and its receptions; Greek historiography (especially Herodotus and Xenophon); ancient Greek literary culture; Greek divination and Delphic oracles
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jlth1@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 |
| 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 | Associate Professor of 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 | 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 |
| Tim Penn | DL Associate Tutor | tp244@le.ac.uk |
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| Adam Rogers |
DL Associate Tutor and Teaching Fellow |
acr16@le.ac.uk |
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| 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 | Professor of Archaeology |
the history of archaeological thought and method; the archaeology and anthropology of art; the history of archaeological publishing; archaeology and ancient history in education; community archaeology; Roman provincial archaeology and art. |
sas11@le.ac.uk |
| Michaela Senkova | Teaching Fellow | Ancient social and cultural history, gender, religion, medicine | ms1062@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 |
| Lecturer in Roman History |
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yx213@le.ac.uk |
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| Ruth Young | Professor of Archaeology | Archaeology of South Asia and Middle East, particularly historical periods; Post-Conflict Archaeology and Heritage | rly3@le.ac.uk |