Norman Hammond - Biography#

Norman Hammond is a Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge University, Associate in Maya Archaeology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, and Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at Boston University. He was educated at Cambridge University (Dip. Class. Arch. 1967, MA 1970, PhD 1972, ScD 1987) and taught at Cambridge, Bradford (D.Sc. honoris causa, 1999), Berkeley and Rutgers (latterly as Distinguished Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology) before joining Boston University in 1988. He was Irvine Chair of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences (1984-85) and has been a Visiting Professor at Jilin University (China), the Sorbonne, the University of Bonn, and the University of Otago (New Zealand), as well as a Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford; Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Peterhouse, University of Cambridge; Worcester College, University of Oxford.