Ballot Archive

19 Nov 2015

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Donald John Logan Bennet

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA, Ph.D. (Cantab.)

Profession or occupation

Professor of Aegean Archaeology

Grounds for election

John Bennet will become Director of the British School at Athens on 1 Oct. 2015, and is currently director of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology. After reading Classics at Cambridge, he wrote his Ph.D. on Late Minoan Crete using both archaeology and the Linear B documents. He has conducted fieldwork in Crete (Knossos; Phaistos region; Chania region), mainland Greece (Pylos region), and the islands (Keos; Kythera). His publications often explicitly integrate material and textual evidence. Recent works include a co-edited volume in honour of Susan Sherratt; another on 'The Disappearance of Writing Systems: Perspectives on Literacy and Communication'; and the co-authored 'A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the Early 18th Century'. Before his appointment at Sheffield in 2004, he taught at Madison (Wisconsin) and Oxford.

Signatories

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