David John Mattingly#
| Membership Number: | 3580 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/mattingly |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009, 10-2012, 07 Research Director, College of Arts, Humanities and Law, University of Leicester
- 1998 - 1999, 2002, 2013 - 2014 Acting Head of School of Archaeology and Ancient History
- 1998, 10 Professor of Roman Archaeology, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
- 1995, 10 Reader, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
- 1991, 12 Lecturer, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester
- 1989, 08 Assistant Professor, Dept of Classical Studies, University of Michigan
- 1986, 09 Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford (3 year British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship)
Fields of Scholarship
- Saharan archaeology
- Ancient urbanism
- Postcolonial approaches to the Roman Imperialism
- Ancient economy
- Ancient olive cultivation, oil production and trade
- Roman Africa
- Landscape archaeology
- Roman archaeology
- Roman Britain
- Roman mining
Honours and Awards
- 2013 William Ritchie visiting Fellow, University of Sydney
- 2013 Jerome Lecture series at the American Academy in Rome and University of Michigan
- 2012 Ure lecture, Dept of Classics, University of Reading
- 2011 - 2016 ERC Advanced grant award, the Trans-Sahara Project
- 2008 Joan Pye Lecture, House of Lords, London
- 2007 Langford Visiting Scholar, Florida State University
- 2006 M. Balmuth Lecture series, Tufts University
- 2005 R. Syme Lecture, University of Oxford
- 2004: J.W. Altman Scholar in Residence, University of Miami in Oxford (Ohio)
- 2004: J. Berry lecture, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
- 2003 Elected Fellow of the British Academy at the young age of 45 (FBA)
- 2001 James Wiseman Book prize of the Archaeological Institute of America
- 1999 - 2001 British Academy Research Reader (2-year research fellowship)
- 1999 Mitford lecture, University of St Andrews
- 1994 Leverhulme Trust Fellowship
- 1993 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London (FSA)
- 1991 Horace Rackham Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan
- 1987 - 1989 Non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford.
- 1986 - 1989 Honorary Research Fellow, Faculty of Literae Humaniores, University of Oxford
- 1986 - 1989 British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford
