Professor David Mattingly FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2003
- Subjects
- Archaeology
- Sections
- Archaeology
Summary
My research spans Roman Archaeology (major work on Britain and Africa), Landscape archaeology (projects in Italy, Jordan and Libya) and Saharan Archaeology (projects in Libya and Morocco). Within Roman archaeology I have worked on issues relating to the ancient economy (especially olive production and trade), urbanisation, mining, frontiers, imperialism and identity. I have recently been leading the Trans-SAHARA Project, funded by the European Research Council, exploring themes of trade, urbanisation and state formation, identity and migration, burial archaeology and technological transfers across the Sahara and beyond. My research and teaching career has taken me from a BA Postdoctoral Fellowship at Oxford, to an Assistant Professor post at University of Michigan to a lengthy career at the University of Leicester since 1992. I have been Professor of Roman Archaeology since 1998 and currently (2015-19) Head of School of Archaeology and Ancient History. I am the author/editor of 25 books and 250 articles and chapters. I was elected Member of the Academia Europaea in 2013. I served on the RAE2008 panels for Archaeology and for Classics and the REF2014 combined Archaeology/Geography panel.
Current post
Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Leicester
Past appointments
University of Leicester Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Leicester
1998 -
University of Leicester Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Leicester
1998 -
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Timothy Alexander Insoll FBA
Islamic archaeology of sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula; archaeology of African indigenous religions; West African Iron Age archaeology; archaeological approaches to rituals and religions
Professor Melanie Giles FBA
Iron Age communities of Britain, north-western Europe and Scandinavia; art, technology and material culture; mortuary archaeology, grave goods and burial ethics; creative practice with museums; antiquarianism
