Ballot Archive

16 Mar 2017

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Mark Anderson

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA (Reading) MSt, MSc (Oxon) PhD (Cape Town)

Profession or occupation

Senior Lecturer, Digital Education

Grounds for election

Dr Mark S Anderson is an expert in African archaeology and in digital education. A graduate in Archaeology at Reading (1998), he went on to study for two masters courses at Oxford, in Professional Archaeology (2000) and Education (2012). Between these he completed a PhD at the University of Cape Town, SA, on pre-colonial urbanism focusing on the Tswani town of Marothodi. He also ran a successful field school, and developed an archaeological/ educational company, Attikam, on his return to the UK. His monograph: Marothodi, the Historical Archaeology of an African Capital was published in 2013. He has also published a series of articles, reports and book chapters on the themes of African archaeology and digital education. Dr Anderson is currently a Senior Lecturer in Learning and Teaching at the University of Greenwich, and is also a tutor at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. He is a field director for the Wadla Research Project, Ethiopia, based at SOAS.

Signatories

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