Libya Matters - The Speakers
All the speakers are active members of the Society for Libyan Studies, which has
supported most of the projects described here:
Graeme Barker is Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge
(www.arch.cam.ac.uk). His long involvement in the archaeology of Libya includes
co-directing a UNESCO-funded study of Roman-period farming in the
Tripolitanian pre-desert in 1979-1989, and coordinating the excavations in the
Haua Fteah cave since 2006.
Tertia Barnett is an Honorary Fellow in the Department of Archaeology, University
of Edinburgh. She has surveyed and recorded rock carvings in the Wadi al-Hayat
(Fazzan) during the Fazzan Archaeological Project, the Desert Migrations Project,
and as director of the Wadi al-Hayat Rock Art Project. See
http://www.libyarockart.com/
Paul Bennett is Director of the Canterbury Archaeological Trust; he is also Head of
Mission for the Society for Libyan Studies. He has carried out fieldwork in Libya
annually since 1996, and is joint director of the Society's Euesperides project.
Robert Foley and Marta Mirazon Lahr (Leverhulme Centre for Human
Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge) have carried out extensive surveys in Fazzan to
map the prehistoric occupation of the Central Sahara.
Saul Kelly is a Reader at the Defence Studies Department, King's College London,
with a particular interest in the desert campaigns of the 20th century.
Philip Kenrick is a freelance archaeologist and Treasurer of the Society for Libyan
Studies. He has worked widely in Libya since 1971 and has been responsible for
publications on Sabratha, Lepcis Magna, Benghazi and Cyrene. He is the author of
Libya Archaeological Guides: Tripolitania (Society for Libyan Studies 2009) and is
currently working on a companion volume on Cyrenaica..
David Mattingly is Professor of Roman Archaeology at the University of Leicester,
with more than 30 years experience in Libyan archaeology, having worked on the
Libyan Valleys Survey and more recently on a series of projects related to the
ancient people called the Garamantes in the Libyan Sahara and the historic oasis
centre of Ghadames. He is author or co-author of numerous books including
Tripolitania, Farming the Desert vols 1-2, The Archaeology of Fazzan vols 1-3. See
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/people/mattingly
Hafed Walda is an archaeologist based at King's College London; he has excavated
at Lepcis Magna, and worked with the Leverhulme-funded Inscriptions of Roman
Cyrenaica project. He is currently advising international organisations on the
condition of Libyan heritage and its future management.
Susan Walker is Keeper of the Department of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford. She has published studies of imperial sculpture, the use of marble and the
urban development of Cyrene and its relations with Greece. She is a former
Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies.
Kevin White is Senior Lecturer in Environmental Remote Sensing at the University
of Reading. He specialises in the use of optical and radar images from satellites to
study Earth surface processes in deserts. He has been working in Libya for fifteen
years, with colleagues from Al-Fatah University, Garyounis University and Tarhuna
University.
Andrew Wilson is Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, University of
Oxford, and former Chairman of the Society for Libyan Studies. He has co-directed
the SLS excavations at Euesperides (Benghazi), and worked on ancient irrigation
and settlement in the Fazzan. See http://users.ox.ac.uk/~corp0057/