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Helena Hamerow
Helena Francisca Hamerow, FSA, FBA (born 18 September 1961) is an American archaeologist, best known for her work on the archeology of early medieval communities in Northwestern Europe. She is Professor of Early Medieval archaeology and former head of the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
The daughter of Theodore S. Hamerow, Hamerow attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1979 to 1983, where she earned a BA in Anthropology. She continued her education at the University of Oxford, where she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in 1988. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The pottery and spatial development of the Anglo-Saxon settlement at Mucking, Essex".
Having completed her doctorate, Hamerow was a Mary Somerville research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford from 1988 to 1990. In 1991, she was appointed as a lecturer in early medieval archaeology at Durham University. In 1996, Hamerow returned to Oxford as Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology, where she continues today. She is also a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, where she was vice-master from 2005 to 2008. She was director of the Institute of Archaeology from 2002 to 2005, and head of the School of Archaeology from 2010 to 2013.
Hamerow was an elected member of the Council of the University of Oxford, serving from 2016 to 2020.
She is a commissioner of Historic England, and a former vice-president of the Royal Archaeological Institute. She served as president of the Society for Medieval Archaeology from 2014 to 2016.
Hamerow's research centres on the archaeology of rural communities during the Anglo-Saxon era, specifically the impact on farmers and the early medieval settlements by the founding of monasteries, kingdoms and towns. She has researched and written on the settlement archaeology of the North Sea regions from the period 400—900 AD. She has participated in several projects on the Upper Thames Valley during the Anglo-Saxon period, notably at Sutton Courtenay and Dorchester-on-Thames. Hamerow is currently leading a four year project funded by the European Research Council (ERC): Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution. The project's aim is to investigate the "agricultural revolution" that occurred in Europe between 800 and 1200 AD, as a result of the expansion of cereal farming.
The University of Oxford holds an archive of unpublished material from excavations by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes. Hamerow, who was a student of Hawkes, led a project to digitise the archive. It concluded in 2007 and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Römisch-Germanische Kommission.
Hamerow is co-director of the ongoing excavation at Dorchester-on-Thames, the Discovering Dorchester research project. She was instrumental in the project's design in 2007 and has continued to co-lead the project since the beginning. The project is sponsored by three co-partners: Oxford's School of Archeology, Oxford Archaeology, and the Dorchester Museum. The site is notable for the large quantity of important archeological remains dating from the prehistoric period to the medieval era.
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Helena Hamerow
Helena Francisca Hamerow, FSA, FBA (born 18 September 1961) is an American archaeologist, best known for her work on the archeology of early medieval communities in Northwestern Europe. She is Professor of Early Medieval archaeology and former head of the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.
The daughter of Theodore S. Hamerow, Hamerow attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1979 to 1983, where she earned a BA in Anthropology. She continued her education at the University of Oxford, where she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in 1988. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The pottery and spatial development of the Anglo-Saxon settlement at Mucking, Essex".
Having completed her doctorate, Hamerow was a Mary Somerville research fellow at Somerville College, Oxford from 1988 to 1990. In 1991, she was appointed as a lecturer in early medieval archaeology at Durham University. In 1996, Hamerow returned to Oxford as Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology, where she continues today. She is also a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, where she was vice-master from 2005 to 2008. She was director of the Institute of Archaeology from 2002 to 2005, and head of the School of Archaeology from 2010 to 2013.
Hamerow was an elected member of the Council of the University of Oxford, serving from 2016 to 2020.
She is a commissioner of Historic England, and a former vice-president of the Royal Archaeological Institute. She served as president of the Society for Medieval Archaeology from 2014 to 2016.
Hamerow's research centres on the archaeology of rural communities during the Anglo-Saxon era, specifically the impact on farmers and the early medieval settlements by the founding of monasteries, kingdoms and towns. She has researched and written on the settlement archaeology of the North Sea regions from the period 400—900 AD. She has participated in several projects on the Upper Thames Valley during the Anglo-Saxon period, notably at Sutton Courtenay and Dorchester-on-Thames. Hamerow is currently leading a four year project funded by the European Research Council (ERC): Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The Bioarchaeology of an Agricultural Revolution. The project's aim is to investigate the "agricultural revolution" that occurred in Europe between 800 and 1200 AD, as a result of the expansion of cereal farming.
The University of Oxford holds an archive of unpublished material from excavations by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes. Hamerow, who was a student of Hawkes, led a project to digitise the archive. It concluded in 2007 and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Römisch-Germanische Kommission.
Hamerow is co-director of the ongoing excavation at Dorchester-on-Thames, the Discovering Dorchester research project. She was instrumental in the project's design in 2007 and has continued to co-lead the project since the beginning. The project is sponsored by three co-partners: Oxford's School of Archeology, Oxford Archaeology, and the Dorchester Museum. The site is notable for the large quantity of important archeological remains dating from the prehistoric period to the medieval era.