Cyprian broodbank biography

Authors

• Cyprian Broodbank University College London
• Graeme Barker University of Cambridge
• Lin Foxhall University of Leicester
• Sturt Manning Cornell University

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Author Biographies

• Cyprian Broodbank, University College London
  Cyprian Broodbank is Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London (UK) and author of The Making of the Middle Sea (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013). He will take up the position of Disney Professor of Archaeol

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  Cyprian Broodbank (UCL) - Stanford Archaeology Center Distinguised Lecture

  The deep history of globalisation is mapped by growing webs of connections across the sea as much as the land, with 1492 a late date in a far longer process that stretches back millennia. In this respect, early maritime activity across a handful of the world's inner seas created many of the conditions for the world we inhabit today. Of these cockpits of change, the Mediterranean is one of the largest, most dynamic and archaeologically most richly evidenced, from the first seagoing hunter-gatherers to the formation around its shore of the world's largest ancient empire, centered on Rome. This lecture explores the early Mediterranean as a unique human theatre, with a particular emphasis on its first emergence as a cultural and social arena centered on the sea.
  Cyprian Broodbank grew up in London, and read History at Oxford. After a Masters at Bristol, he took his PhD at Cambridge, and from 1994 until 2014 was based at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, where he rose to the title of Professor of Mediterranea

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  Cyprian Broodbank

  British archaeologist and academic

  Cyprian Broodbank, FSA, FBA (born 26 December 1964) is a British archaeologist and academic. Since October 2014, he has been Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. From 2010 to 2014, he was Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology at University College London.^[1][2]

  Early life and education

  Broodbank was born on 26 December 1964.^[3] He studied modern history at the University of Oxford, graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.^[4] He then went on to study for a Master of Arts (MA) degree in Aegean and Anatolian prehistory at the University of Bristol, graduating in 1987.^[4] He undertook postgraduate study at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, and completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1996.^[2] His supervisor was John F. Cherry,^[5] and his doctoral thesis was titled This small world the great: an island arch