Disney Professor of Archaeology
The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed by John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000, followed by a further £2,500 bequeath upon his death in 1857.[1]
The last three Disney Professors have also served as the Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.[2]
List of Disney Professors of Archaeology
- 1851–1865 John Howard Marsden
- 1865–1879 Churchill Babington
- 1879–1887 Percy Gardner
- 1887–1892 George Forrest Browne
- 1892–1926 William Ridgeway
- 1926–1938 Ellis Minns
- 1939–1952 Dorothy Garrod
- 1952–1974 Grahame Clark
- 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel
- 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew
- 2004–2014 Graeme Barker
- 2014– Cyprian Broodbank
See also
References
- ^ Clark, John Willis (1904). Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 222–223 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ "New Disney Professor Announced". McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. University of Cambridge. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
Further reading
- Tilley, C.Y., 1989, Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture. In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.