Professor Dan Hicks

Undergraduate teaching

Lecturer for core papers:

• Honour Moderations -  The Nature of Archaeological and Anthropological Enquiry

Convenor for FHS option course:

• Understanding Museums and Collections

Postgraduate teaching

Postgraduate taught course options in: 

• Archaeology of Colonialism
• Archaeological Method and Theory
• Archaeology and Material Culture

Dan welcomes interest from doctoral students in the fields of historical archaeology, material culture and museum studies, and the archaeology of the contemporary world.

Books

• World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013 (edited with Alice Stevenson).
• The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press,  2010 (edited with Mary C. Beaudry).
• Envisioning Landscape Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press (One World Archaeology 52) (edited with G. Fairclough and L. McAtackney, 2007)
• "The Garden of the World": a historical archaeology of eastern Caribbean sugar plantations, AD 1600-2001. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports (Studies in Historical and Contemporary Archaeology) (2007)
• The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (edited with Mary C. Beaudry, 2006)

Papers and Book Chapters (Selected)

• 2016. The Temporality of the Landscape Revisited. Norwegian Archaeological Review 49(1). 
• 2016. Meshwork Fatigue (reply to comments from Tim Ingold, Matt Edgeworth and Laurent Olivier). Norwegian Archaeological Review 49(1).
• 2016. The Return of Ethnographic Theory: HAU and When. Anthropology Today 32(3): 22.
• 2013. Four Field Anthropology: charter myths and time warps from St Louis to Oxford. Current Anthropology 54(6). 
• 2013. Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum. In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. Later Prehistoric and Roman Europe (with Joshua Pollard). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. Post-Roman Europe. (with Eleanor Standley and Alice Forward). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• 2013. Oxfordshire. (with Matthew Nicholas). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. The Aegean and Cyprus (with Yannis Galanakis). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. South America (with Bill Sillar). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. Central America (with Elizabeth Graham and Alice Stevenson). In D. Hicks and A.  Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. The Caribbean (with Jago Cooper). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. North America (with Michael Petraglia). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. Asia and the Middle East. In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. India and Sri Lanka (with Michael Petraglia and Nicole Boivin). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• 2013. Australia and Oceania. In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.

• 2013. Easter Island and Pitcairn Island (with Sue Hamilton, Mike Seager Thomas and Ruth Whitehouse). In D. Hicks and A. Stevenson (eds) World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• 2010. Material culture studies: a reactionary view (with Mary C. Beaudry). In D. Hicks and M.C. Beaudry (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-21.
• 2010. The material-cultural turn: event and effect. In D. Hicks and M.C. Beaudry (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 25-98.
• 2009. Rematerialising metropolitan histories? People, places and things in modern London. In Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer (eds) Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks? Future directions in the archaeological study of post-1550 Britain and Ireland. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, pp. 323-350 (with Nigel  Jeffries, Alastair Owens, Rupert Featherby and Karen Wehner)
• 2007. From Material Culture to Material Life. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 9/10: 245-255 (2007)
• 2007. Historical Archaeology in Britain. In D.M. Pearsall (ed.) Encyclopedia of Archaeology. San Diego: Academic Press.
• 2007. Landscapes as Standpoints. In D. Hicks et al (eds) Envisioning Landscape Archaeology. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press (One World Archaeology) (with Laura McAtackney)
• 2007. Colonialism and Landscape: Power, Materiality and Scales of Analysis in Caribbean Historical Archaeology. In D. Hicks et al (eds) Envisioning Landscape Archaeology. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press (One World Archaeology) (with Mark Hauser, 2007)
• 2006. Introduction:The Place of Historical Archaeology. In D. Hicks and M.C. Beaudry (eds)The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-9. (with Mary C. Beaudry)
• 2006. Historical Archaeology and Buildings. In D. Hicks and M.C. Beaudry (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 273-292 (with Audrey Horning)
• 2005. 'Places for Thinking' from Annapolis to Bristol: Situations and Symmetries in "World Historical Archaeologies"'. World Archaeology 37(3): 373-391.
• 2004. Historical Archaeology and the British. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 14 (1): 101-106.
• 2003. Archaeology Unfolding: Diversity and the Loss of Isolation. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 22 (3): 315-329.
• 2000. Ethnicity, Race and the archaeology of the Atlantic slave trade. Assemblage 5.

Book Reviews and Review Articles

• 2016. Review of Shannon Dawdy Patina: a profane archaeology. Sculpture Journal 25(3): 448-449.  
• 2010. Review of Owen Hatherley ‘Militant Modernism’. Planning Perspectives 25(2).
• 2009. The Smallest Rooms. Times Literary Supplement 5568/5569: 35. (2009)
• 2009. Review of B. Bender et al. ‘Stone Worlds: narrative and reflexivity in landscape archaeology’.American Antiquity 74(3): 590-591. (2009)
• Review of Trevor Rowley ‘The English Landscape in the Twentieth Century’ Landscapes 8 (2008)Review of S. Kane (ed.) 2003. ‘The Politics of Archaeology and Identity’.Journal of Historical Geography32 (3): 665-667 (2006)
• 'From 'Questions that Count' to Stories that 'Matter' in Historical Archaeology'.Antiquity 78: 934–939 (2004)

Selected Other Publications

• 2018. The Universal Museum is a 21st-Century Myth. Art Newspaper
• 2017. The A303 is Part of the Stonehenge setting: don't bury it. The Independent. 
• 2017. Why are England's heritage bodies supporting the Stonehenge Bypass? Apollo Magazine. 
• 2016. Here’s why you should care about the scrapping of A-level anthropology. The Conversation 
• 2016. Pitt Rivers 2065. Museums ID 19: 31-37.  
• 2009. Excavating the Archives: archive archaeology and the higher education sector. London: HEFCE (Guidelines for Teaching and Learning 7).
• 2004. Change and Creation: historic landscape character, 1950-2000. London: English Heritage (with Andrea Bradley, Victor Buchli, Graham Fairclough, Janet Miller and John Schofield).
• 2004. Biographies of London Life: the archaeology of Londoners and their things, AD 1600-2000. London: Museum of London 'Research Matters' Occasional Publication 3. (with Nigel Jeffries)