News in brief

Balloting News

As Fellows may recall, trial balloting procedures were introduced at the Society in the Autumn. The main difference is that there are no longer dedicated ballot meetings and, instead, a small number of candidates are balloted at the beginning of most meetings. Between October and December, 47 new Fellows were elected under the new system. They have brought their expertise in a wide range of subjects to the Fellowship; their names and areas of interest are detailed below.


Elected 15 October 2009

  • John M Paddock, BA, PhD. Director of the Corinium Museum (has published widely on Roman antiquities and the archaeology of Cirencester).
  • Desmond Robert Fitzpatrick, BA. Independent scholar (has written and lectured extensively on London history, especially the City’s architectural history; Chairman of the City Heritage Society and advisor on planning and conservation to various City Corporation bodies).
  • Michael Clifford Turner, BA. Senior Curator, Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney (has written extensively on iconography of classical art and has co-edited Australian volume of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum).
  • Sally Elizabeth Ellen Crawford, BA, MA, DPhil. Honorary archivist and librarian, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford (specialist in Anglo-Saxon archaeology, especially childhood and age-banding).
  • Bernhard Emil Woytek, MagPhil, DrPhil. Lecturer at University of Vienna (member of the Numismatic Commission, Austrian Academy of Sciences; extensive publications on Roman Republican and early Imperial coinage).
  • Christina Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, MA, PhD. Lecturer, School of Classics, University College Dublin (major research contributions on Mycenaean and early Iron Age Greece and collections of classical antiquities in Ireland).
  • Damian Robinson, BSc, MPhil, PhD. Director, Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology (well-known researcher on Roman archaeology; has participated in Anglo-American expedition to Pompeii).
  • May Cassar, BA, BSc, MSc. Professor of Sustainable Heritage, University College London (national and international experience in cultural heritage and environmental management projects; papers in UK and international journals). 

Elected 22 October 2009

  • Peter Edward Pickering, PhD. Retired civil servant (as Secretary of the Standing Conference on London Archaeology promoted co-operation between archaeologists & raised the profile of archaeology in Greater London).
  • Philip Newman, BA, MIFA. Archaeological Investigator, English Heritage (specialist on the archaeology of mining, especially the copper and tin industries of Devon, on which he has published and lectured widely).
  • Patrick Vinton Kirch, BA, MPhil, PhD. Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Biology, University of California (foremost archaeologist of the Polynesia; has also contributed to general archaeological theory).
  • Gilbert Eric Burroughes. Retired farmer and independent archaeologist (extensive research in archaeology of East Anglia and experimental work on pottery kilns, glass furnaces and production of samian ware).
  • Stephen Porter, BA, MLitt, PhD. Researcher, editor and author (has edited and written extensively on English agrarian history, the Civil War and the history of London).
  • Paul Thomas Collins, BA, MA, PhD. Curator, Dept of the Middle East, British Museum (responsible for the Museum’s Assyrian and Babylonian collections; participated in the survey of sites in S Iraq in 2008).
  • Claude Doumet-Serhal, MA, PhD. Independent archaeologist (Director, since 1998, of excavations at Sidon on behalf of the British Museum; founder of the journal National Museum News; author of major works on the Levant).
  • Nigel Charles Tallis, BA, MA. Curator, Dept of the Middle East, British Museum (specialist in ancient warfare and in the Assyrian and Achaemenid Persian periods; has also written on the history of pharmacy).


Elected 12 November 2009

  • John Charles Hurd, BSc. Archaeological and architectural conservator (International Conservation Director of the Global Heritage Fund, with a special interest in the Silk Road cities of Central Asia).
  • Lorraine Nicola Mepham, BA. Senior post-excavation manager, Wessex Archaeology (specialist in ceramic research of later prehistoric and post-Roman periods; her large corpus of publication includes work on ceramics of the Isle of Wight and sites in Wiltshire).
  • Karen Elaine Walker, BA, MPhil. Principal, Wessex Archaeology (where she is responsible for all post-excavation management; important role in the research and publication of all the 20th-century excavations at Stonehenge).
  • Antony Julian Firth, BA, MSc, PhD. Head of Coastal and Marine Projects, Wessex Archaeology (leading authority on the archaeology of the coastal and marine environment; consultant to many national organisations).
  • Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, Bt, MA. Journalist, photographer, publisher (author and exhibition organiser, Machu Picchu and the Camera; museum philanthropist; has served on Advisory Council on Public Records, etc.).
  • Hugh Martyn Wayne Borrill, MA. Independent archaeologist (undertaken extensive excavation and fieldwork in E Hertfordshire and N London; has published on Roman casket burials and currently specialises in ceramics).
  • Fiona Gale, BA, MA. County Archaeologist for Denbighshire (extensive knowledge of and work in the archaeology of N Wales and in conservation of Clwydian hillforts; publications include pottery reports of sites in Dorset and Herefordshire).
  • Rt Hon Sir Timothy Sainsbury. Retired politician (Trustee of the V&A; collector of and expert in British ceramics and 20th century paintings; major patron of the arts for over 50 years).

Elected 19 November 2009

  • Sarah Elizabeth Staniforth, BA. Historic Properties Director, National Trust (Head Conservator at the NT, 2002-5; member and trustee of various national heritage bodies; has written and lectured extensively on preventative conservation).
  • John Patrick William (Pat) Rogers, BA, MA, PhD, LittD, DLitt, FBA. De Bartolo Professor in the Liberal Arts, University of South Florida (historian, principally of 18th-century British literature, politics, society, arts and culture with extensive publications in the field).
  • Victoria Coltman, MA, PhD. Senior Lecturer, History of Art Dept, University of Edinburgh (specialist in visual and material culture in Britain in its European context in the 18th century; Paul Mellon Fellow, British School at Rome).
  • Susan Powell, BA, PhD. Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Salford (leading authority on Medieval English literature and culture and the transmission of manuscript to print; notable publications on John Mirk and on Syon Abbey).
  • Brian Kerr, BA, FSAScot. Head of Archaeological Projects, English Heritage (major contributions to urban archaeology, castle studies and garden archaeology; oversaw excavation and recording of fire-damaged buildings at Windsor Castle).
  • James Leary, BA. Prehistoric archaeologist, English Heritage Archaeological Projects (directed fieldwork for the Silbury Conservation Project; has published on Silbury and the archaeology of London).
  • Thomas P Campbell, BA, MA, PhD. Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art (lectured and published extensively on European textiles; his book on Henry VIII and the tapestries at the Tudor Court is the definitive work in the field).
  • Jane Annette Roberts, PhD. Professor Emerita, King’s College London (Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London; major publications on Old English and Anglo-Saxon and on English palaeography).

Elected 26 November 2009

  • Geoffrey Douglas Gaunt, BSc, PhD. Geological and geoarchaeological consultant (extensive work and publication in lithology and the geological background to archaeological surveys and also on archery history).
  • Timothy Peter Young, MA, PhD. Geoarchaeological consultant (authority on the early history of metallurgy, especially the iron industry in Britain; has undertaken major geophysical surveys at Llantrisant and Caerleon).
  • David C Parker, MTheol, DipTheol, ThD. Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham (Executive Editor, International Greek New Testament Project; has published widely on New Testament manuscripts, including the new online edition of the Codex Sinaiticus).
  • Stephen Massil, BA, DipLib. Retired Head of Collections and Rare Books, University of London Library (extensive experience in library automation and in cataloguing rare books, especially European languages and Hebraica; has published widely on Huguenot history).
  • Thorsten Opper, BA, MSt, DPhil. Curator, Greek and Roman Dept, British Museum (interests include Greek and Roman sculpture and the history of collections; curated the recent BM exhibition ‘Hadrian: Empire and Conflict’).
  • John Ashley Null, BA, MDiv, PhD. Lecturer, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (major contributions to the study of the English and European Reformations, especially through his publications on Thomas Cranmer).
  • William Moss, BA, MA. Principal Archaeologist of the City of Quebec (responsible for the city’s innovative programmes of fieldwork, research and heritage management; past president of the Society for Historical Archaeology; visiting teaching posts at the Université Laval and the University of Virginia).

 

Elected 3 December 2009

  • Emily V Cole, BA, MA. Architectural historian (in charge of the London Blue Plaques team; has written and lectured widely on architectural subjects, especially the Elizabethan and Jacobean country house).
  • Robert Gibbs, BA. Professor of Pre-Humanist Art History and Codicology, University of Glasgow (internationally acknowledged authority on medieval Italian art, especially Bolognese painting of the 13th-15th centuries).
  • James Wilkinson, BSc. Writer and editor (author of numerous publications and articles, many of them on Westminster Abbey; editor of the The Westminster Abbey Chorister).
  • Diana Beattie. Director of the Heritage of London Trust (has played a major and influential role in fundraising for conservation projects in London, including St Pancras Waterpoint, and Poplar Library).
  • Julian Mitchell, MA. Author and playwright (in addition to his considerable film and TV work, novels and biographies, has published academic work on 17th-century Welsh politics, early antiquarian travellers and the Wye Tour).
  • Antti Samuli Matikkala, PhD. Research Fellow at the Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki (past president of the Finnish Heraldry Society; has published extensively on heraldry and orders of knighthood).
  • Robert James Fitzgerald Cowie, BA, MPhil. Project Manager, Museum of London Archaeology (archaeologist with particular interest in and wide-ranging publications on Saxon London; sessional lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London).
  • Ruurd Binnert Halbertsma, BA, MA, DPhil. Curator of Classical Antiquities, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (has excavated at Satricum and Pompeii; wide interests in many aspects of classical archaeology).