Skip to content

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

Nine Fellows of the British Academy on how their subjects could shape the 2020s

24 Jan 2020

Leading professors in the humanities and social sciences set out the challenges and opportunities facing their subjects in the 2020s.

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Charles Higham FBA

South-East Asia

Charles-Higham-FBA.jpg

Professor John Ray FBA

Egyptology

john-ray.jpg

Professor Georgina Born OBE FBA

Anthropology and sociology of music, media and digital cultures; anthropological theory; the social, the material, and time; cultural production, cultural institutions and creative industries; music in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries; interdisciplinarity; AI and culture; digital humanities and digital methods

georgina-born.jpg

Sign up to our email newsletters

Join our mailing list to explore the ideas and impact of the British Academy. Get updates on research, funding, policy, international collaborations, and events that bring the humanities and social sciences to life.