Michael Fulford

Michael Gordon Fulford, CBE, FBA, (born 1948 Hampshire) is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, He studied Archaeology and Latin at Southampton University, where he was also awarded a doctorate. Between 1971 and 1974, he was employed as the personal research assistant of Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and was afterwards appointed lecturer and later also reader at the University of Reading. He received a personal professorship in 1988 and became professor of the Chair of Archaeology at the university when it was established in 1993. He has also been Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (1998–2004).

Elected in 1977, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and has served on both the Council and the Executive and Research Committees of the Society. In 1994 Michael Fulford was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He is currently the Honorary Treasurer of the Academy.

Between 1994 and 1998, he was editor for the academic journal Britannia. Fulford served as the President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from 2005-2008, and is currently a vice president. For the period between 2003 and 2007, he was granted the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Fulford has served as chairman of the Roman Research Trust since 2009.

Fulford has published widely on subjects relating to Romano-British and Roman archaeology, especially with regards to the dynamics of towns, landscape archaeology and the economy. He is probably best known for a series of digs conducted since 1974 at the site of the former Iron Age and Romano-British town of Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum), Hampshire.

Fulford was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours. In 2013, a supplement of the Journal of Roman Archaeology was published in Fulford's honour. Fulford was appointed a Commissioner of English Heritage (now Historic England) in 2014. Fulford won the 2015 Archaeologist of the Year award at the Current Archaeology Awards, as voted for by the general public. The awards were announced on 27 February 2015 as part of the annual Current Archaeology Live! conference.

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