Dr. John Creighton

Biography

"Dr. John Creighton, Currently, working as Head of Department, School of Archaeology, Geography & Environmental Science, University of Reading, United Kingdom. Qualifications: BA PhD (Durham) FSA Dr. John Creighton's research centres upon Later Iron Age and Early Roman NW Europe. His books include: 'Silchester: changing visions of a Roman Town' (2016); 'Britannia: the creation of a Roman Province' (2005); 'Coins & Power in Late Iron Age Britain' (2000), Celti: the archaeology of a Hispano-Roman Town in Baetica (with Simon Keay and Jose Remesal, 2001), and he has co-edited the volume Roman Germany: Studies in Cultural Interaction (1999). His fieldwork has included work in Britain, France, Germany and Spain. Recently he has completed projects with Colin Haselgrove and Tom Moore, examining the landscape in the vicinity of the Iron Age oppidum of Mont Beuvray (Bibract) and the Roman town of Autun in Burgundy; and also a large fieldsurvey and digitisation project of the Roman town and hinterland of Silchester (Hampshire). John was seconded from 2005-10 to direct the University's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, in a project enhancing linkage between teaching and research, both at Reading and across the HE sector. He initiated the University's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme. He is a National Teaching Fellow. He was Director the Society of Antiquaries of London (2010-16) and has been a trustee of the Royal Archaeological Institute and the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, and has sat on the grant awarding committees of all those organisations. "

Research Interest

"• Imagery and the negotiation of power • Coinage and commodification • Urban landscapes and social memory • Ancient viticulture and the wine trade • Postgraduate supervision "