Archaeology
Elected 1995
Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Reading
Classical archaeology; the material culture of the eastern Mediterranean and western Asia, particularly in Hellenistic and Roman times; archaeologies of landscape, imperialism, sacred space, and memory
The politics, religion, and art of Pre-Columbian urban societies in Central Mexico; the history and development of Mesoamerican archaeology
Janet Montgomery is a bioarchaeologist specialising in the isotopic and chemical analysis of humans and animals to reconstruct ancient diets, residential mobility and exposure to pollutants from the Mesolithic to the 19th century in northwestern Europe.