Professor John Robb

John Robb is Professor of European Prehistory in the Department of Archaeology; he is also Director of Studies in Archaeology at Peterhouse. John received his first training in mediaeval English literature (BA, University of Chicago, 1983), and then went on to study anthropological archaeology at the University of Michigan (MA, 1989; PhD, 1995). His PhD thesis dealt with inequality and gender in Italian prehistory, combining evidence of human skeletons, archaeology and prehistoric art. After a brief post-doc at Southern Illinois University (1995-6), he taught at the University of Southampton for five years (1996-2001). He has been teaching in Cambridge since 2001 and run major projects on e.g. on southern Italian archaeology and the theoretical history of the human body. Besides these topics, he is interested in material culture theory, burial taphonomy and ritual, and prehistoric art. John’s full staff profile can be found on the Department of Archaeology website here.