Stephen Shennan#
| Membership Number: | 3565 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/people/stephen-shennan-professor-theoretical-archaeology |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - 2014 Director, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
- 2003 - 5 Deputy Director, Institute of Archaeology, University College London
- 2001 - 5 Director of the AHRB Centre for the Evolutionary Analysis of Cultural Behaviour, University College London
- 1996 - present Professor of Theoretical Archaeology, University College London
- 1995 - 6 Professor, University of Southampton
- 1990 - 5 Reader, University of Southampton
- 1987 - 90 Senior Lecturer, University of Southampton
- 1978 - 87 Lecturer, University of Southampton
- 1976 - 78 Archaeological Survey Officer, Hampshire Archaeological Committee, University of Southampton
- 1975 - 76 Research Fellow, University of Southampton
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantitative methods
- Cultural evolution
- European prehistory
- Anthropological archaeology
Honours and Awards
- 2016 - 2020 Member, International Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
- 2015 Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) Research Award
- 2010 The Rivers Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- 2010 ERC Advanced Grant: Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe
- 2006-7 Li Ching Visiting Professor, University of Shandong
- 2006 Elected Fellow of the British Academy
- 1989 Awarded the Kulturpreis of the town of St Johann im Pongau, Austria, for services to the archaeology of the region
- 1980 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
