Disney Professor of Archaeology

The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed by John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000, followed by a further £2,500 bequeath upon his death in 1857.[1]

The last three Disney Professors have also served as the Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.[2]

List of Disney Professors of Archaeology

• 1851–1865 John Howard Marsden
• 1865–1879 Churchill Babington
• 1879–1887 Percy Gardner
• 1887–1892 George Forrest Browne
• 1892–1926 William Ridgeway
• 1926–1938 Ellis Minns
• 1939–1952 Dorothy Garrod
• 1952–1974 Grahame Clark
• 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel
• 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew
• 2004–2014 Graeme Barker
• 2014–0000 Cyprian Broodbank

See also

• List of professorships at the University of Cambridge

References

1. Clark, John Willis (1904). Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 222–223 – via Internet Archive.
2. "New Disney Professor Announced". McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. University of Cambridge. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 2018-02-04.

Further reading

• Tilley, C.Y., 1989, Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture. In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.

External links

• Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge