Helena Hamerow is Professor of Early Medieval archaeology and former head of the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
17 Facts About Helena Hamerow
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Helena Hamerow continued her education at the University of Oxford, where she completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 1988.
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Helena Hamerow was a Mary Somerville research fellow at Somerville College until 1990.
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In 1996, Hamerow returned to Oxford as Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology, where she continues today.
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Helena Hamerow is a Fellow of St Cross College, where she was Vice-Master from 2005 to 2008.
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Helena Hamerow was head of the School of Archaeology from 2010 to 2013.
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Helena Hamerow is an elected member of the Council of the University of Oxford.
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Helena Hamerow has participated in several projects on the Upper Thames Valley during the Anglo-Saxon period, notably at Sutton Courtenay and Dorchester-on-Thames.
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Helena Hamerow is currently leading a four year project funded by the European Research Council : Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution.
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Helena Hamerow, who was a student of Hawkes, led a project to digitise the archive.
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Helena Hamerow is co-director of the ongoing excavation at Dorchester-on-Thames, the Discovering Dorchester research project.
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Helena Hamerow was instrumental in the project's design in 2007 and has continued to co-lead the project since the beginning.
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Helena Hamerow is principal investigator of the multi-disciplinary project, Origins of Wessex, which has been investigating the development of the kingdom of Wessex in the Upper Thames Valley.
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Helena Hamerow has appeared on BBC Four's Digging for Britain in 2010 and King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons in 2013.
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In 2011, Helena Hamerow was one of forty leading archaeologists who published an open letter to the Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke in the Guardian, asking for more time to study ancient human remains found in archaeological excavations.
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Helena Hamerow was elected as a Fellow to the Society of Antiquaries of London in May, 1996.
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Helena Hamerow is a commissioner of Historic England, a former president of the Society for Medieval Archaeology and vice-president of the Royal Archaeological Institute.