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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
Amanda Clarke Director of Archaeology Field School +44 (0)118 378 6255 a.s.clarke@reading.ac.uk
Professor Hella Eckardt Professor in Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 6266 h.eckardt@reading.ac.uk
Dr Brandon Fathy Lecturer in later Medieval Archaeology  +44 (0)118 378 5899 b.h.fathy@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 Mueldner 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 Karen Ruebens  Lecturer   k.j.ruebens@reading.ac.uk
Professor Gabor Thomas Professor in Early Medieval Archaeology +44 (0)118 378 5449 gabor.thomas@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 Quaternary Scientific Director (QUEST) +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
Hester Crothers Geoarchaeological Technician - Quest   h.r.crothers@reading.ac.uk
Ash Dobie Laboratory and Fieldwork Technician in Geoarchaeology +44 (0)118 378 3530 a.dobie@reading.ac.uk
Jenni Eaton Research Assistant +44 (0)118 378 7804 j.e.eaton@reading.ac.uk
Dr Sam Hudson Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Environmental DNA   s.m.hudson@reading.ac.uk
Dr Owen Humphreys Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Archaeology   o.humphreys@reading.ac.uk
Juliette Kent QUEST Professional Placement Year   j.m.kent@reading.ac.uk
Natasha Kozlowski QUEST Geoarchaeologist   n.c.kozlowski@reading.ac.uk
Dr Annemieke Milks British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow  +44 (0) 118 378 5906 a.g.milks@reading.ac.uk
Kathryn Murphy Postdoctoral Researcher in Data Science  +44 (0) 118 378 5810 k.murphy@reading.ac.uk
Keith Nyakubaya Senior Technician in Analytical Chemistry
Archaeology
+44 (0)118 378 5910 k.nyakubaya@reading.ac.uk
Dr Katy O'Donnell Research Assistant   k.e.odonnell@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 Carolina Rangel De Lima Postdoctoral Research Assistant   c.rangeldelima@reading.ac.uk
Dr Amy Richardson Senior Research Fellow +44 (0)118 378 8747 a.l.richardson@reading.ac.uk
Professor 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 Geoff Smith Senior Researcher in Zooarchaeology   g.m.smith@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
Betty L Adams
b.l.adams@pgr.reading.ac.uk Cultural Continuity of ancient cosmetic residue analysis and anthropological implications of cosmetic adornment in the ancient Near East.
Farah Benbouabdellah f.benbouabdellah@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Tigers in Film: Past, Present and Future Perspectives.
Eleanor Chipps e.chipps@pgr.reading.ac.uk Children in the afterlife: the mummification and funerary treatment of non-adults in ancient Egypt.
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.

Tasha Fullbrook t.fullbrook@pgr.reading.ac.uk Radiates in context: chemical and archaeological analysis of the “Barbarous Radiates” coinage phenomenon in Roman Britain.
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.
Elizabeth Garnett e.m.garnett@pgr.reading.ac.uk Blood lines: a social, palaeopathological and biomolecular examination of the impact of thalassaemia in Romano-British Poundbury Camp, Dorset.
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.
Henrietta Hammant h.l.hammant@pgr.reading.ac.uk Anthropology of Heritage: Museum objects and the ‘heroes’ of early British Antarctic exploration.
Lorna Hunter l.k.hunter@pgr.reading.ac.uk Re-Imagining Taplow: A Community Endeavour.
Letty Ingrey
d.l.ingrey@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Behavioural and technological variability in MIS 9 from intra-site to landscape scales.

Rose Karpinski r.karpinski@pgr.reading.ac.uk Rivers of Bronze in the age of Iron: an interdisciplinary study of Iron Age copper-alloy material culture from the middle-upper Thames Valley.
Alesia Koush a.koush@pgr.reading.ac.uk Human rights implications of illicit trafficking in archaeological heritage: the case study of Iraq.
Katie Manby
k.j.b.manby@pgr.reading.ac.uk
Complex Divinities: Writing the chemical, archaeological and collecting biographies of 1st century AD Roman copper-alloy statuettes within the British Museum.
Anqi Mao a.mao@pgr.reading.ac.uk Media communication of intangible cultural heritage and human social change under the pandemic: A case study of Linxia brick carving.
Pete Moore

p.j.b.moore@pgr.reading.ac.uk

Islands in the Wildwood: A Non-Anthropocentric Study of the Prehistoric Calcareous Wetlands of North-West Europe.
Kathryn Price k.m.price@pgr.reading.ac.uk Early Humans in Britain: Cultural Adaptations from Coastal to Inland Occupation.
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.
Frankie Tait f.tait@pgr.reading.ac.uk Maximising the potential of fragmented bone to gain new insights into the coexistence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens in Central and Southeast Europe. 
Morwen Thomas m.s.thomas@pgr.reading.ac.uk All that remains: reframing the importance of human cremations in understanding life in ancient Colchester – the original Romano-British capital.
Anna Wagner a.wagner@pgr.reading.ac.uk Unravelling the subsistence and diet of late Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in Central and Southeast Europe.
Juliette Waterman j.l.t.waterman@pgr.reading.ac.uk
They are what we eat: Detection of animal domestication and feeding using isotope approaches.
 Keni Zheng k.zheng@student.reading.ac.uk
Biodiversity and sustainability of plant and fire use in hunter-gatherer and early agricultural communities in West Asia: Integrated phytolith and micromorphological 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