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Over 110 people work in our Department, with research and teaching spanning the breadth of archaeological study.

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Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Multidisciplinary research
  • Geochemistry
  • Palaeoclimatology
  • Novel biomarker proxy
  • Marine ecosystem dynamics
  • African archaeology (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • GIS and remote sensing
  • Spatial modelling
  • Environmental Archaeology
  • Cultural Resource Management
  • African Archaeology (research group)

Digital Archives Assistant

Lucy Akturk

Student Wellbeing Officer

Professor

Research interests:

  • Bioarchaeology (research group)
  • Stable isotope analysis
  • Human and animal subsistence
  • Multi-faith societies and sociocultural change
  • African archaeology (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Public archaeology
  • Digitisation
  • Archive management
  • Museum education
  • Premodern heritage narratives

Chair in Archaeology

Research interests:

  • Late Bronze and Iron Age Europe
  • Landscape archaeology
  • Conflict and violence
  • Prehistoric demography
  • Anarchistic principles in Prehistoric communities
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Reader

Research interests:

  • Artefact studies
  • Medieval material culture
  • Viking Age
  • Long-range trade
  • Craft and industry
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Professor

Research interests:

  • Terrestrial landscape evolution
  • Coastal archaeology
  • Shell middens
  • Palaeoenvironmental analysis
  • Submerged landscapes
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Lecturer in Heritage and Digital Creativity

Research interests:

  • Decolonising Heritage
  • Cultural Heritage interpretations and management 
  • Heritage and Museum education
  • Rock Art studies
  • Heritage and science narratives
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • African archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Hunter-gatherer archaeology
  • Settlement
  • Material culture
  • Spatial analysis
  • Experimental archaeology

Professor of Funerary Archaeology

Research interests:

  • European Neolithic
  • Funerary Archaeology
  • Social identity, gender and inequality
  • Radiocarbon dating
  • Strontium Isotopes
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Bioarchaeology
  • Isotopic analysis
  • Proteomic analysis
  • Ancient diets
  • Mobility and social dynamics

Archivist and Finds Officer

Research interests:

  • Artefact Analysis and Small Finds
  • Early Medieval Archaeology
  • Viking Age Material Culture
  • Reconstructive Heritage Crafts, Nalbinding (Nalebinding).
  • Finds Processing, Care, Curation
  • Finds and Paper Archive Museum Submissions and Processes
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Digital Archives Assistant

ADS Lead Applications Developer

Digital Archives Assistant (ADS)

UKRI Post Doctoral Fellow

Research interests:

  • Pottery and ceramics
  • Neolithic ways of life

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Ritual and domestic life
  • Later prehistory
  • Funerary practices
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)

Jennie Campbell

PA / Administrator

Digital Archives Assistant (ADS)

Research interests:

  • Data re-use
  • Heritage repositories
  • Digital preservation
  • Born-digital heritage
  • Museum activism
  • Decolonising archives and collections

Professor Maureen Carroll

Professor

Research interests:

  • Roman death and burial
  • Funerary commemoration
  • Ancient dress and identity
  • Roman childhood
  • Roman religion
  • Roman imperial economy
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Research interests:

  • World archaeology
  • Early Medieval Europe
  • Field method in archaeology
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Life Sciences
  • Human Biology
  • Human Osteology
  • Palaeopathology

Helen Chan

Postgraduate Administrator

Lecturer in Bioarchaeology

Research interests:

  • Biomolecular archaeology
  • Ancient DNA analysis
  • Stable isotope analysis
  • Human and animal subsistence
  • Early Prehistory
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Cultural heritage conservation
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Earth building materials
  • Historic building conservation
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
  • African archaeology (research group)

Professor

Research interests:

  • Biomolecular archaeology
  • Human diets and cuisine
  • Stable isotope analysis
  • Organic residue analysis
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

ADS Digital Archives Officer

Mr Paul Dalton

Student Services Administrator

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Assistant Director (ADS / HSDS)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Zooarchaeology
  • Microfauna
  • RATTUS
  • Small mammals

Professor

Research interests:

  • Post medieval
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Senior Lecturer in Anatomy

Research interests:

  • Evolutionary anatomy
  • Virtual anthropology
  • Functional morphology
  • Human evolution and prehistory

Honorary Visiting Professor

Research interests:

Egyptology; Body adornment in the ancient world; Mummification and burial practices

Dr Maria Fontanals-Coll

Laboratory Technician (BioArCh)

Research interests:

  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Digital Archives Officer

Web Applications Developer (ADS)

Zoe Fraser

Administration Manager

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Participatory heritage
  • Collections development
  • Heritage values
  • Heritage interpretation
  • Heritage and change
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)

Archaeology Data Service Project Manager

Digital Archives Assistant

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Buildings history
  • Churches; medieval
  • Conservation
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Applications Developer

Lecturer in Bioarchaeology

Research interests:

  • Environmental history
  • Archaeobotany
  • Diet and cuisine
  • Biomolecular analysis
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Project & Fieldwork Officer (1316)

Research interests:

  • GIS and Remote Sensing
  • Landscape Survey and Geophysics
  • Cartography and Illustration
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Lecturer in Sustainability (joint with Environment)

Research interests:

  • Sustainability
  • Inequality
  • Agriculture
  • Spatial analysis
  • Economics
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Ancient DNA
  • Genetic and proteomic preservation

Collections Development Manager

Chair in Medieval Archaeology

Research interests:

  • Viking Great Army
  • Archaeology and heritage
  • Medieval castle studies
  • Digital technologies
  • Archaeology of childhood
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Senior Technical Team Manager

Research interests:

  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Lecturer in Palaeoproteomics

Research interests:

  • Ancient protein analysis
  • Dietary consumption
  • Disease
  • Biomarkers
  • Palaeoproteomics
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Digital Archives Officer

Leverhulme Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Heritage and social justice
  • Indigenous archaeology
  • Heritage encounters
  • Anti-colonial and decolonial heritage
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Archaeobotany
  • aDNA
  • Biodiversity
  • Climate Change
  • Food systems
  • Prehistory

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Osteoarchaeology
  • Palaeopathology
  • Weapon-related trauma
  • Burial ritual
  • Multi-disciplinary analysis
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Ms Elle Hough

Student Services Administrator

Fieldwork Project Manager

Research interests:

  • Landscape archaeology
  • Medieval archaeology
  • Castle landscapes
  • Archaeological fieldwork
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Mr Jake Jarvis

Department Administration Coordinator

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Buildings biographies
  • Urban history
  • Long Eighteenth century
  • Domestic space
  • Consumer behaviour
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Political radicalism
  • Resistance and revolt
  • Enslaved rebellion
  • Visual culture
  • Historical archaeology
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

PalaeoHub & Osteology Technician

Research interests:

  • Fieldwork (research group)

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Prehistoric excavations
  • Neolithic monuments
  • Mobility in archaeology
  • Landscape Archaeology
  • Sea-level rise and adaptation
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Collections Development Officer

Research interests:

  • Prehistoric landscapes
  • Arabian-African interconnectivity
  • Archaeological fieldwork

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Funerary Archaeology
  • Iron Age mortuary practices
  • Fragmentary human remains
  • Biomolecular data

Lecturer in Conservation

Research interests:

  • Conservation practice
  • Archaeological conservation
  • Material science
  • Preventative conservation
  • Earthen architecture
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)

Technical Specialist in Zooarchaeology

Research interests:

  • Zooarchaeology (teaching and collections)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Hunter-gatherer archaeology
  • Artefact analysis
  • Experimental archaeology
  • Funerary archaeology
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)

Technician in Archaeological Chemistry

Research interests:

  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Organic residue analysis
  • Prehistoric Japan
  • Past cuisines and culinary habits
  • Cultural transition
  • Agriculture and pottery

Mr Duncan Marks

Teaching Associate

Research interests:

Planning Club, York Civic Trust

Elizabeth Marshall

Administrator

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Medieval archaeology
  • Parish churches
  • Funerary commemoration
  • The Norman Conquest
  • Lordship and landscape
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Communications and Training Assistant (ADS)

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Population genomics
  • Ancient DNA analysis
  • Evolution

Head of Department - Archaeology

Research interests:

  • Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology
  • Fieldwork
  • Public engagement
  • Climate change
  • Biodiversity
  • Death and burial practices
  • Food
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Anthropocene Encounters

Research interests:

  • Fermentation
  • Cooking
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)

Lecturer in Roman Archaeology

Research interests:

  • Roman archaeology
  • Archaeological theory
  • Greco-Roman religion
  • Digital archaeology
  • Museum and heritage studies
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • African archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Vicky Moore

Faculty Finance Assistant - Archaeology

Discipline: Accounting and Finance

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeology
  • Mesolithic archaeology
  • Experimental archaeology
  • Artistic expression in Prehistory
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)

Standards Manager (ADS / HSDS)

Archives Manager (ADS / HSDS)

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Zooarchaeology
  • Fish and fish trade
  • Commensal rodents
  • Medieval Europe
  • Neolithic and Chalcolithic
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Dr Émilie Pagé-Perron

Data Wrangler

Technical Specialist in Artefact Studies

Research interests:

  • Archaeological materials
  • Ceramics
  • Pottery
  • Early medieval archaeology
  • Experimental archaeology
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Landscape history and archaeology
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Public engagement
  • UK treescapes and tree valuation
  • Machine learning

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Research interests:

  • Intangible cultural heritage
  • Diaspora and migration
  • Cultural festivities and celebrations
  • Uses of heritage in post-displacement settings
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Palaeopathology
  • Health and disease in past populations
  • Funerary Archaeology
  • History of medicine
  • Biomolecular analysis
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

ZooMS Technician

Research interests:

  • ZooMS
  • Palaeoproteomics
  • Protein breakdown
  • Amino acid analysis
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Lisa Quinn

Leverhulme Centre Administrator

Professor

Research interests:

  • Anglo-Saxon and Viking archaeology
  • Mortuary behaviour
  • Settlement evolution
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • Data preservation
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Stable Isotope Analysis

Research interests:

  • Isotopic analysis of human and faunal remains
  • Human osteology and palaeopathology

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Cuisine
  • Heritage
  • Foraging
  • Himalayan mountain cultures
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)

Associate Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Quantitative methods
  • Cultural evolution
  • Digital archaeology
  • R Statistical Environment
  • C14 dating

Senior Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Digital Heritage
  • 3D Computer Graphics
  • Design
  • Virtual Reality
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
  • Digital archaeology (research group)

Professor

Research interests:

  • Contemporary archaeology
  • Marine pollution
  • Cultural heritage
  • Plastic Age
  • Citizen science
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

James Selway

Student Services Administrator

Technician in Ancient DNA and Palaeoproteomics

Research interests:

  • Biomolecular archaeology
  • Ancient diet
  • Human osteology
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Archaeology of restoration
  • Parish churches
  • Historic buildings
  • Measured survey methodologies
  • Architectural analysis
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
  • African archaeology (research group)

Professor

Research interests:

  • Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Human social emotions
  • Hunter-gatherer populations
  • Cognitive variability
  • Human evolution and prehistory
  • Digital archaeology (research group)

Lecturer (joint with Environment)

Research interests:

  • Sustainability science
  • Sustainable agricultural landscapes
  • Field Archaeology
  • Complex stratigraphic excavation
  • East Africa
  • Intensive agriculture
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)
  • African archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Experimental Officer

Research interests:

  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Dr Catherine Taylor

Project Manager

Lecturer

Research interests:

  • Neolithic
  • Eastern Mediterranean and Ancient Near East
  • Digital archaeology
  • Spatial analysis
  • Archaeological excavation
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • African archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)

Ruth Townsend

Student Services Manager

Service Manager (HSDS)

Technical Specialist in Stable Isotope

Research interests:

  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Lecturer in Archaeological Science

Research interests:

  • Ancient DNA analysis
  • Plant domestication
  • Crop utilization
  • Archaeobotanical remains
  • Genetic changes in domesticated plants
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Professor

Research interests:

  • Landscape Archaeology
  • Geoarchaeology
  • Holocene environmental change
  • Alpine archaeology
  • Human-environment interactions
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)
  • Digital archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Leverhulme International Professor of Heritage Studies

Research interests:

  • Critical heritage studies
  • Heritage
  • Emotion and affect
  • Experimental methodologies
  • Anti-colonial heritage
  • The politics of memory
  • Buildings conservation and heritage (research group)

ADS Financial Administrator

Editor, Internet Archaeology

ADS Research Projects Manager

Research interests:

  • Digital methods in archaeology
  • Semantic Web
  • Linked Data
  • Data Standards
  • Digital Preservation
  • FAIR Principles

Marie Curie Experienced Researcher

Research interests:

  • Zooarchaeology
  • Biomolecular approaches
  • Prehistoric human-cattle interactions
  • Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology
  • Agricultural and dietary change
  • Bioarchaeology (research group)

Professor

Research interests:

  • Africanist Archaeology
  • Urbanism
  • Material culture
  • Community archaeology
  • East African heritage
  • African archaeology (research group)
  • Fieldwork (research group)
  • Experimental archaeology and artefact studies (research group)
  • Roman, medieval and historical (research group)

Applications Developer (423)

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests:

  • Climate change archaeology
  • Lithic analysis
  • Digital archaeology
  • Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers
  • Public engagement
  • Human evolution and prehistory (research group)