Michael Fulford | |
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![]() Professor Michael Fulford lecturing in 2017 | |
Born | October 1948 (age 76) |
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Alma mater | University of Southampton |
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Discipline | Archaeologist |
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Michael Gordon Fulford, CBE , FBA , FSA (born October 1948) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the British Iron Age, Roman Britain and landscape archaeology. He has been Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading since 1993. [1]
Fulford was born in October 1948 in Hampshire, England. [2] He was educated at St Edward's School, Oxford, then an all-boys private boarding school. [3] He studied Archaeology and Latin at Southampton University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1970 and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1975. [3] [4] His doctoral thesis was titled "New Forest Roman Pottery". [5]
Between 1971 and 1974, he was employed as the personal research assistant of Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe; [4] first at the University of Southampton, then at the University of Oxford. [3] He joined the University of Reading as a lecturer in archaeology in 1974, and promoted to reader in 1985. [3] He received a personal chair in 1988 and was made Professor of Archaeology in 1993. [4] He has also been Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1998–2004). [4]
He served on both the Council and the Executive and Research Committees of the Society of Antiquaries of London. [6] He is currently the Honorary Treasurer of the British Academy. [7]
Between 1994 and 1998, he was editor for the academic journal Britannia . Fulford served as the President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from 2005 to 2008, and as of 2021 [update] is an honorary vice-president of the society. [8] For the period between 2003 and 2007, he was granted the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. [4] Fulford has served as chairman of the Roman Research Trust since 2009. [9]
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. [4] [6]
Fulford was appointed a Commissioner of English Heritage (now Historic England) in 2014. [10]
Fulford was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours. [11]
In 1977, Fulford was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). In 1994, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). [7]
In 2013, a supplement of the Journal of Roman Archaeology was published in Fulford's honour. [12] Fulford won the 2015 Archaeologist of the Year award at the Current Archaeology Awards, as voted for by the general public: the awards were announced on 27 February 2015 as part of the annual Current Archaeology Live! conference. [13]