- Michael Fulford
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Michael Gordon Fulford, CBE, FBA, (born 1948 Hampshire) is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading,[1] He studied Archaeology and Latin at Southampton University, where he was also awarded a doctorate.[2] Between 1971 and 1974, he was employed as the personal research assistant of Professor Barry Cunliffe and was afterwards appointed lecturer and later also reader at the University of Reading.[2] He received a personal professorship in 1988 and became professor of the Chair of Archaeology at the university when it was established in 1993.[2] He has also been Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1998–2004).[2]
Elected in 1977, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and has served on both the Council and the Executive and Research Committees of the Society.[3] In 1994 Michael Fulford was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.[4] He is currently the Honorary Treasurer of the Academy.[5]
Between 1994 and 1998, he was editor for the academic journal Britannia and he is currently President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.[2] For the period between 2003 and 2007, he was granted the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.[2]
Fulford has published widely on subjects relating to Romano-British and Roman archaeology, especially with regards to the dynamics of towns, landscape archaeology and the economy. He is probably best known for a series of digs conducted since 1974 at the site of the former Iron Age and Romano-British town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum), Hampshire.[2][3]
Fulford was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours.[6]
Selected writing
- (2000), with D. Allen and Jane Timby. Late Iron Age and Roman Silchester: Excavations on the Site of the Forum-Basilica, 1977, 1980-86. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
- (1989), with D. Allen. The Silchester amphitheatre: excavations of 1979-85. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Britannia monograph series 10. London.
- (1985). "Excavations on the sites of the amphitheatre and forum-basilica at Silchester, Hampshire: an interim report." The Antiquaries Journal 65. pp. 39–81.
- (1984), with Mark Corney. Silchester: excavations on the defences, 1974-80.
- (1975). New Forest Roman pottery: manufacture and distribution, with a corpus of the pottery types. Oxford.
References
- ^ Contributors list in A Companion to Roman Britain, ed. Malcolm Todd. Oxford et al., 2004.
- ^ a b c d e f g Romanitas: essays on Roman archaeology in honour of Sheppard Frere, ed. R.J.A. Wilson. Oxford: Oxbow, 2006. p. xxi.
- ^ a b Visions of antiquity: the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1707-2007, ed. Susan Pearce. London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 2007. p. 436. ISBN 9780854312870.
- ^ British Academy Fellows Archive, British Academy. Accessed January 18, 2010.
- ^ Officers of the Academy, British Academy. Accessed January 18, 2010
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59647. p. 7. 31 December 2010.
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Categories:- 1948 births
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- Living people
- Academics of the University of Reading
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- Fellows of the British Academy
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- Roman archaeology
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