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academic positions held
2007 - 2008 Violet Andrews Whittier Faculty Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center
2004 - Director Stanford Humanities Lab - with great colleagues Jeffrey Schnapp and Henry Lowood - see our class "Human and Machine"
1998 - 2005 Professor by Courtesy, affiliated with the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University. The appointment was terminated by the department in 2005. The reason given was "bureaucratic hygiene" (really!), though I didn't cost them anything. I suspect it was more to do with my interdisciplinary interest in cyborg culture.
2000 - The Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classical Archaeology, Stanford University - though I never received an actual chair to sit on (and yes, they normally arrive with such an appointment).
1998 - 2000 Professor of Classics, Stanford University. Where I became founding faculty for Stanford Archaeology Center New interdisciplinary moves into (digital) media with my Metamedia Lab. Department of Classics - [link]
1997 - Docent, Institute of Archaeology, Gothenburg. A cherished connection with the most open of intellectual communities, headed by Kristian Kristiansen. In 2006 we received funding from the Wallenberg Foundation to build links through a project exploring the collaborative cocreation of cultural heritage - [link].
1996 - 1998 Reader in Archaeology, Head of Department, University of Wales Lampeter. Where I realized that people and community matter most. Molly May was born in Carmarthen.
1993 - 1998 Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Wales Lampeter. A lot of teaching and building new programs and initiatives, in a glorious rural setting.
1992 - 1993 Teaching Fellow, University of Wales Lampeter. The break into a profession in the academy. A university the size of a high school and a main street in the town where I got to know every storekeeper. Great vision and hope. Where we got to love labrador retrievers (Abbey came with us to Stanford).
Corinth - subject of my doctoral dissertation - here at the beginning of the twentieth century, before the American excavations
1991 - 1992 Fellow, Centre d'Archéologie Classique, Paris 1 (Sorbonne), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. Another intellectual rollercoaster with Classicists, philosophers, anthropologists, technologists, helped along this time by the glories of Belgian beer and a view over the Seine. Great discoveries with Alain Schnapp, Laurent Olivier, Kristian Kristiansen, Jean-Paul Demoule, Bruno Latour, Pierre Lemonnier, Sander van der Leeuw, Anique Coudart, Nathan Schlanger. Alain and I are now running a major joint project to research French and Anglo-American-antiquarians.
1983 - 1988 Teacher (Latin, Greek, Ancient History), Whitley Bay High School, UK - maybe the fabulous energy of the eighth graders helped me write round the clock on archaeological theory. My longest conversation, with Alan Campbell [link] (now MP, Junior Minister and the Right Honorable!), began here.
education and qualifications
Docentur (Higher Doctorate and license to teach) Institute of Archaeology, Göteborg 1997. A lovely Swedish city, home of some dear friends.
PhD Peterhouse Cambridge 1992. Better second time round - and the college gave all the support I so needed.
MA Peterhouse Cambridge 1983
Peterhouse, from Little St Mary's 1977
PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate of Education) Durham University 1982 - when the River Wear froze over and I taught seven year olds in a Durham colliery village devastated by the decline of mining in the run up to the Miners' Strike of 1984.
BA Peterhouse Cambridge 1980. Have I ever got over it? I skipped most lectures. The angry young man in me told one faculty member that he was useless and had nothing to say - this didn't help much.
Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1970 - 1976 - I still remember the school song about the great and the good of England's north east. The most traditional of schooling you could imagine - academic gowns, rugby football (I was pretty good as scrum-half, but hated the team spirit), Combined Cadet Force (Naval Section), Latin and Greek. Sounds like Hogwarts - all the violence, but none of the magic.
some other valued connections and achievements
2008 - Member of Rotterdam's International Advisory Board, offering perspectives on cultural heritage as an essential component of economic development - [link]
1992 - 2004 Brith Gof, outstanding performance company, led by artistic directors Mike Pearson and Clifford McLucas - the most creative of relationships. I became a company director in 1997 to strengthen links with the academy and to help develop theatre/archaeology, deep mapping - what I now call chorography.
