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Academic staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Professor Martin Bell Professor in Archaeological Science +44 (0)118 378 7724 m.g.bell@reading.ac.uk
Dr Alanna Cant Lecturer in Social Anthropology +44 (0)118 378 7820 a.m.cant@reading.ac.uk
Ms Amanda Clarke Director of Archaeology Field School +44 (0)118 378 6255 a.s.clarke@reading.ac.uk
Dr John Creighton Associate Professor in Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 7364 j.d.creighton@reading.ac.uk
Professor Hella Eckardt Professor in Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 6266 h.eckardt@reading.ac.uk
Professor Michael Fulford Professor in Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 8048 m.g.fulford@reading.ac.uk
Professor Duncan Garrow Professor in Later Prehistoric Archaeology +44 (0) 118 378 6458 d.j.garrow@reading.ac.uk
Professor Roberta Gilchrist Professor in Archaeology/ Research Dean +44 (0)118 378 6381 r.l.gilchrist@reading.ac.uk
Professor Rob Hosfield

Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology

Head of Department of Archaeology

+44 (0)118 378 7632 r.hosfield@reading.ac.uk
Professor Mary Lewis Professor in Bioarchaeology +44 (0)118 378 8927 m.e.lewis@reading.ac.uk
Professor Roger Matthews Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 7564 r.j.matthews@reading.ac.uk
Dr Wendy Matthews Associate Professor in Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 6788 w.matthews@reading.ac.uk
Professor Steven Mithen Professor in Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 7363 s.j.mithen@reading.ac.uk
Dr Gundula Muldner Associate Professor in Bioarchaeology +44 (0)118 378 7389 g.h.mueldner@reading.ac.uk
Professor Aleks Pluskowski Professor in Medieval Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 5267 a.g.pluskowski@reading.ac.uk
Dr Gabor Thomas Associate Professor in Early Medieval Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 5449 gabor.thomas@reading.ac.uk
Dr Philippa Walton Lecturer  +44 (0)118 378 4977 p.j.walton@reading.ac.uk

Research and enterprise staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Dr Rowena Banerjea Postdoctoral Research Assistant +44 (0)118 378 7877 r.y.banerjea@reading.ac.uk
Dr Rob Batchelor QUEST Director +44 (0) 118 378 8941 c.r.batchelor@reading.ac.uk
Dr Peter Bray Research Fellow in Material Science +44 (0) 118 378 3290 p.j.bray@reading.ac.uk
Dr Hannah Caroe Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Archaeobotany
Archaeology
   h.f.caroe@reading.ac.uk
Dr Blessing Chidimuro Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Isotope Ecology/Archaeology
b.chidimuro@reading.ac.uk
Hester Crothers Geoarchaeological Technician - Quest   h.r.crothers@reading.ac.uk
Jenni Eaton Research Assistant +44 (0)118 3787804 j.e.eaton@reading.ac.uk
Dr Claire Hodson British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship +44 (0)118 3783728 c.m.hodson@reading.ac.uk
Natasha Kozlowski QUEST Geoarchaeologist   n.c.kozlowski@reading.ac.uk
Dr Annemieke Milks British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow   a.g.milks@reading.ac.uk
Keith Nyakubaya Senior Technician in Analytical Chemistry
Archaeology
k.nyakubaya@reading.ac.uk
Dr Eljas Oksanen Postdoctoral Research Fellow   e.i.oksanen@reading.ac.uk
Nick Pankhurst Research Assistant +44 (0)118 378 7316 n.a.pankhurst@reading.ac.uk
Dr Amy Richardson Senior Research Fellow +44 (0)118 378 8747 a.l.richardson@reading.ac.uk
Dr Katie Sampeck Global Professor in Historical Archaeology   k.e.sampeck@reading.ac.uk
 Dr Mike Simmonds

Senior Project Manager - Quest

+44 (0) 118 378 8853 m.j.simmonds@reading.ac.uk
 Dr Robert Webley Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Archaeology  +44 (0)118 378 6568 r.b.webley@reading.ac.uk

Postgraduate Research Students

Name Email Project
Abdulmajeed Alhuraish a.a.s.alhuraish@pgr.reading.ac.uk Nature and sustainability of transformations in human-environment inter-relations and sedentism in the Neolithic of Jubbah, NW Saudi Arabia. 
Florencia Botta f.n.botta@pgr.reading.ac.uk Was childhood health declining in the period leading to the Black Death?
Lydia Bowler l.a.bowler@pgr.reading.ac.uk A critical evaluation of the influence of environmental and geological factors on the Late Bronze Age collapse in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Miles Clifford  m.clifford@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Three Thousand Years of Rubbish and Ritual in the Thames: A Long Durée Investigation of Riverine Deposition Powered by Collaborative Partnerships.

Jack Eggington j.eggington@pgr.reading.ac.uk  Health, diet, and social inequality in industrial Britain: a mother-infant perspective.
Paige Falco p.falco@pgr.reading.ac.uk Investigating the presences of air pollution in Romano British populations and its impacts on health utilizing palaeopathology and trace element analysis.
Ellen Green ellen.green@pgr.reading.ac.uk Dead in a ditch: a taphonomic examination of human and animal remains deposited in non-formal funerary contexts in S E England during the late Iron-Age and early Roman periods.
Christopher Griffiths c.j.griffiths@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Middle and Late Bronze Age hoards, hoarding practices and depositional contexts in south-east and west Wales.

Henrietta Hammant h.l.hammant@pgr.reading.ac.uk Anthropology of Heritage: Museum objects and the ‘heroes’ of early British Antarctic exploration.
Richard Henry richard.henry@pgr.reading.ac.uk Fractured Britannia: Britain and Rome under Count Theodosius and the House of Valentinian
Alesia Koush a.koush@pgr.reading.ac.uk Human rights implications of illicit trafficking in archaeological heritage: the case study of Iraq.
Thomas Mills t.k.mills@pgr.reading.ac.uk 'Be Thou Dead to the World, but Alive Unto God': Defining the Diagnosis and Evolution of Leprosy Using the Evidence of Child and Adult Skeletal Remains.
Carina Garland c.a.s.garland@pgr.reading.ac.uk Other Deposits: the nature and significance of all depositional practices at round barrows during the Bronze Age.
 Pete Moore p.j.moore@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Islands in the Wildwood: A Non-Anthropocentric Study of the Prehistoric Calcareous Wetlands of North-West Europe.
Murat Ozturan m.ozturan@pgr.reading.ac.uk Differences in Flaking Technologies and Volume Management in Large Cutting Tools and Core & Flake Assemblages in Britain and North-West Europe in MIS 11 and 9.
Rebecca Pitt r.a.pitt@pgr.reading.ac.uk Investigating the impact the Roman conquest had on Iron Age people’s health through examining Perinatal, Infant and Maternal health.
Kathryn Price k.m.price@pgr.reading.ac.uk Early Humans in Britain: Cultural Adaptations from Coastal to Inland Occupation.
 Giuly Ragazzon g.ragazzon@pgr.reading.ac.uk 

Transitional lifeways and identity construction in the Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent. An interdisciplinary study of human diet, activity and health.

Lawrence Rees lawrence.rees@pgr.reading.ac.uk Reading Abbey: Connecting Archaeology, Heritage Management and Placemaking.
Andrew Reynolds a.c.reynolds@pgr.reading.ac.uk Late Bronze Age and Iron Age hoardsin Wales and Marches: An investigation into patterns of selective and reflective deposition.
Arica Roberts arica.roberts@pgr.reading.ac.uk Gender & Religion in Early Medieval Wales: The Archaeology of Religious Transformation in Wales c. 400-1200 CE.
Rebecca Scott rebecca.scott@pgr.reading.ac.uk Fire in the Lower Palaeolithic: Absence of evidence or evidence of absence?
Dave Smith d.b.smith@pgr.reading.ac.uk Spatial organisation of early Neolithic communities in the Southern Levant: A spatial analysis of the WF16 Wadi Faynan settlement with regional comparisons.
Juliette Waterman  j.l.t.caverly@pgr.reading.ac.uk They are what we eat: Detection of animal domestication and feeding using isotope approaches.

Emeritus, Honorary and Visiting Staff

Name Position Email
Professor Grenville Astill Emeritus Professor g.g.astill@reading.ac.uk
Professor Richard Bradley Emeritus Professor r.j.bradley@reading.ac.uk
Professor Bob Chapman Emeritus Professor r.w.chapman@reading.ac.uk
Professor Clive McCann Emeritus Professor
Dr Catherine Barnett Senior Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Alex Smith Senior Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Alex Brown Visiting Research Fellow alex.brown@reading.ac.uk
Dr Matt Canti Visiting Research Fellow m.g.canti@reading.ac.uk
Dr Petra Dark Visiting Research Fellow s.p.dark@reading.ac.uk
Dr Jennifer Foster Visiting Research Fellow j.a.a.foster@reading.ac.uk
Dr Chris Green Visiting Research Fellow/QUEST
Dr Heinrich Härke Visiting Research Fellow h.g.h.harke@reading.ac.uk
Dr Kevin Hayward Visiting Research Fellow K.Hayward@reading.ac.uk
Mr Neil Holbrook Visiting Research Fellow
Professor Michael Lewis Visiting Professor mlewis@britishmuseum.org
Dr Sara Machin Visiting Research Fellow s.l.machin@reading.ac.uk
Dr David Mudd Visiting Research Fellow david.mudd@reading.ac.uk
Dr Tom Walker Visiting Research Fellow
Athena SWAN Silver Award