Professor Roberta Gilchrist FBA

Medieval and social archaeology, particularly gender and religion; burial, magic and religious communities, including nunneries, monasteries, hospitals, Norwich Cathedral and Glastonbury Abbey

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2008
Subjects: Archaeology, Art history, Religion
Sections: Archaeology , History of Art and Music
Website: http://www.reading.ac.uk/archaeology/about/staff/r-l-gilchrist.aspx

Current post

Professor of Archaeology and Research Dean, University of Reading

Past appointments

University of Reading Professor of Archaeology and Research Dean

2015 -

Wadham College University of Oxford Keeley Fellow

2008 - 2009

Society for Medieval Archaeology President

2004 - 2007

University of Reading Professor of Archaeology and Head of School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science

1996 - 2015

University of Reading Professor of Archaeology

1996 -

Norwich Cathedral Consultant Archaeologist

1993 - 2005

University of East Anglia Lecturer

1990 - 1995

Publications

Requiem. The Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain (with B Sloane).

Published in 2005 by Museum of London Archaeology Service Monograph

Norwich Cathedral Close: the Evolution of the English Cathedral Landscape

Published in 2005 by Boydell

Gender and Material Culture: the Archaeology of Medieval Religious Women

Published in 1994 by Routledge

Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course

Published in 2012 by Boydell

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Kristian Kristiansen FBA

The later prehistory of western Eurasia, especially the Bronze Age, including archaeogenetics and the theoretical implications of the aDNA revolution, critical heritage studies, as well as the history and politics of archaeology

Professor Susan O'Connor FBA

The archaeology and rock art of Australia, New Guinea and Island Southeast Asia and the links between these regions; Pleistocene colonisation and settlement, interactions between humans and their environment, adaptations to small islands and maritime technology.

Professor Tamar Garb FBA

Art, gender and sexuality in nineteenth and early twentieth-century France; race and visual representation in the modern period; contemporary art and politics and photographic/filmic practices in of and from Southern Africa

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