Professor Roberta Gilchrist

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

Elected 2008

Year elected: 2008
Subjects: Archaeology, Art history, Religion
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

Aug 2015 -

Wadham College University of Oxford Keeley Fellow

Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

Society for Medieval Archaeology President

Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

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

Jan 1996 - Aug 2015

University of Reading Professor of Archaeology

Jan 1996 -

Norwich Cathedral Consultant Archaeologist

Jan 1993 - Jan 2005

University of East Anglia

Jan 1990 - Jan 1995

Publications

Requiem. The Medieval Monastic Cemetery in Britain (with B Sloane). (Museum of London Archaeology Service Monograph) 2005

Norwich Cathedral Close: the Evolution of the English Cathedral Landscape (Boydell) 2005

Gender and Material Culture: the Archaeology of Medieval Religious Women (Routledge) 1994

Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course (Boydell) 2012

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