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

Elected 2008

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2008
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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nicholas Postgate FBA

Archaeology

Professor Roger Parker FBA

The history of opera, particularly in 19th-century Italy; editorial work on Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini; critical theory; film music

Professor Georgina Born 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

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