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 Glynis Jones FBA

Evolutionary approaches to the origins and spread of agriculture; archaeobotany and biomolecular archaeology; the investigation of past cultivation practices through weed ecology and stable isotope analysis

Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu FBA

Modern and Contemporary African and African Diaspora Art; Classical and traditional African Art; Postcolonial theory and Art criticism; Art and politics

Professor Ronald Hutton FBA

British history between 1500 and 1700; the history of paganism, shamanism, magic and witchcraft, and of attitudes to those phenomena

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