Dan Hicks (archaeologist)

Dr Dan Hicks FSA, MIfA (born 1972 in Durham, England) is a British archaeologist and anthropologist based at the University of Oxford. Hicks was educated at Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Birmingham, where he was taught by R. F. Langley. He read Archaeology and Anthropology at St John's College, Oxford, gaining a first class honours degree, and received his Ph.D. in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Bristol. His research is focused on the material culture of the modern period, especially in relation to material culture studies, historical archaeology, and the anthropology of modern heritage, He has conducted fieldwork in the Caribbean, the eastern United States, and in Europe.

Hicks is University Lecturer and Curator in the Archaeology of the Modern Period, in the School of Archaeology and Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, a Research Fellow in Archaeology at Boston University and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). In the academic year 2010-2011, he is Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at St John's College, Oxford. He was previously (2002–2007) Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Bristol.

Books

• Hicks, Dan (2010). The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199218714.  (edited with Mary C. Beaudry).
• Hicks, Dan (2007). The Garden of the World: An Historical Archaeology of Sugar Landscapes in the Eastern Caribbean. Archaeopress (Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 3, British Archaeological Reports International Series 163). ISBN 9781407300467. 
• Hicks, Dan (2007). Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press (One World Archaeology 52). ISBN 9781598742817.  (edited with Laura McAtackney and Graham Fairclough).
• Hicks, Dan (2006). The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521853750.  (edited with Mary C. Beaudry).

External links

• [1] Home page at School of Archaeology, Oxford University
• [2] Home page at St Cross College, Oxford
• [3] Home page at St John's College, Oxford
• [4] Hicks' blog, with details of published works