Dan Hicks (archaeologist)

Dan Hicks FSA, MCIfA (born 1972 in Durham, England) is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford. He is also Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, a Fellow of St Cross College and a Trustee of Museum of London Archaeology. His research is focused on contemporary archaeology, material culture studies, historical archaeology, and the history of archaeology, anthropology, and museum collections. In 2017-18 he was Visiting Professor at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac.[1][2]

Life and career

Hicks was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Birmingham, where he was taught by R. F. Langley.[3] He read Archaeology and Anthropology at St John's College, Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree, and received his Ph.D. in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Bristol.[4] He has conducted fieldwork in the UK, the eastern Caribbean, and the eastern United States, and has published on archaeological and ethnographic collections from around the world.[5]

Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum [6] He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) and a full Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA). He was previously Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at St John's College, Oxford, Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol, and Research Fellow in Archaeology and Anthropology at Boston University. He has appeared regularly on television and radio, including BBC Radio 4's In Our Time[7] and Making History.[8] In 2017-18 he was the Junior Proctor and an elected member of the Council of the University of Oxford.

Honours and awards

In 2017, Hicks was awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute[9].

Books

  • Hicks, Dan (2013). World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Archaeopress. ISBN 978-1-90-573958-5. (edited with Alice Stevenson).
  • Hicks, Dan (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921871-4. (edited with Mary C. Beaudry).
  • Hicks, Dan (2007). The Garden of the World: An Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean. Archaeopress (Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 3, British Archaeological Reports International Series 163). ISBN 978-1-4073-0046-7.
  • Hicks, Dan (2007). Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press (One World Archaeology 52). ISBN 978-1-59874-281-7. (edited with Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough).
  • Hicks, Dan (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-85375-0. (edited with Mary C. Beaudry).

References

  1. ↑ "Dan Hicks, St Cross College, University of Oxford". St Cross College, Oxford.
  2. ↑ "Dan Hicks, University of Oxford". School of Archaeology, Oxford University.
  3. ↑ Langley, R.F. (2006). Journals. Shearsman Press.
  4. ↑ "web page for Dan Hicks, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford". University of Oxford.
  5. ↑ Hicks, Dan (2013). World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.
  6. ↑ "Dan Hicks, Academia.edu profile". Academia.edu.
  7. ↑ "In Our Time, 28 February 2013". BBC Radio 4.
  8. ↑ "Making History, 28 July 2015". BBC Radio 4.
  9. ↑ "Professor Dan Hicks is awarded the Rivers Medal". St John's College, Oxford.
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