Head of Division
School of Arts and Humanities
Professor David Gill is Head of the Division of Humanities and Professor of Archaeological Heritage at University Campus Suffolk. He is a former Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome, and was a Sir James Knott Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He was previously a member of the Department of Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, and Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at Swansea University (where he also chaired the university's e-learning sub-committee). He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is the holder of the 2012 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Outstanding Public Service Award, and the 2012 SAFE Beacon Award.
Recent publications include:
Sifting the Soil of Greece: The Early Years of the British School at Athens (1886- 1919) (Bulletin of the Institute of Classics Studies, Supplement 111; London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2011), xiv + 474 pp.
(with Caroline Gill) ‘H.M.S. Belvidera and the Temple of Minerva’, Notes and Queries 57, 2 (2010), 199-210.
(with Christopher Chippindale) ‘South Italian pottery in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston acquired since 1983’, Journal of Field Archaeology 33, 4 (2008), 462-72.
‘Inscribed silver plate from Tomb II at Vergina: chronological implications’, Hesperia 77, 2 (2008), 335-58.