Jim Crow M.Litt, BA. F.S.A., F.S.A. (Scot.)
Professor of Classical Archaeology
Room 2M.18, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Telephone: 0131 650 2455Office hours: Research leave 2011-12
Affiliated research centres
Centre for Medieval & Renaissance StudiesBiography
I studied Ancient and Medieval History at Birmingham University, with Anthony Bryer and Philip Rahtz, and went on to study Byzantine archaeology at Newcastle University with Martin Harrison, writing a thesis on the late Roman fortifications on the lower Danube, having spent 9 months in Sofia in 1975. I was later a research fellow at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, and was subsequently director of excavations for the National Trust on Hadrian’s Wall from 1982-1989. After a year as lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology at Warwick University, I was appointed to a lectureship in Archaeology at Newcastle University in 1990. I taught at Newcastle until 2007 and during this time I ran field projects in Northumberland at High Rochester and Harbottle, and in Turkey east of Trabzon and from 1994 in Thrace where we investigated the Anastasian Wall and the Water Supply System of Constantinople. My family and I moved to Edinburgh to take up my current post in the summer of 2007.
External appointments
I was Hon. Secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies from 1996-2006; I have a long association with the British Institute at Ankara and I’m currently a member of the research committee. For many years I was on the Hadrian’s wall management plan committee and currently I’m a member of the Antonine Wall research framework panel.