Neil Christie | |
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Born | Neil Christie |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Newcastle University |
Thesis | Settlement and defence of Byzantine and Longobard northern and central Italy (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | R. M. Harrison |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Archaeology |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | Newcastle University University of Leicester |
Neil Christie is a British archaeologist and historian. He is professor of archaeology at the University of Leicester.
Christie studied archaeology at Newcastle University. After obtaining his doctorate, he held a Rome Scholarship at the British School at Rome, and was later employed there to prepare the excavation report on Santa Cornelia. He was also a Sir James Knott Fellow at Newcastle and a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology in Oxford. He joined Leicester in 1992 and was subsequently appointed professor.
Christie is the reviews editor for Medieval Archaeology . He was a founding member of the Medieval Settlement Research Group in 1987, and serves as its secretary and reviews editor of its journal. He also holds a faculty position at the British School at Rome. [1]