St Cross College, Oxford

MA (Oxon), PhD (Bristol), MIFA, FSA

Email: dan.hicks@arch.ox.ac.uk

External Weblinks: School of Archaeology & Pitt Rivers Museum

Dan Hicks is University Lecturer and Curator in the Modern Period, based in the School of Archaeology and the Pitt Rivers Museum. He is a Research Fellow in Archaeology & Anthropology at Boston University, as well as a Fellow of St Cross College.

Dan's research is focused on theoretical and applied approaches to the material culture of the modern period, especially in relation to material culture studies, historical archaeology, the anthropology of modern heritage. Dan's teaching and supervision ranges from Archaeology and Anthropology to History of Art and Fine Art. He is a Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists (MIfA), is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and sits on the Grants Committee of the World Archaeological Congress.

His books include The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology (CUP 2006, edited with Mary C. Beaudry), The Garden of the World: An Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean (British Archaeological Reports 2007), and Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage (One World Archaeology 52, 2007, edited with Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough).

His latest book is The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies (OUP 2010, edited with Mary C. Beaudry).

Dan welcomes enquiries from prospective doctoral students in the fields of historical archaeology, the history of archaeology, material culture studies, and the anthropology of modern heritage.