Professor Shadreck Chirikure

shadreck chirikure
British Academy Global Professor
+44 (0)1865 278137
Shadreck.chirikure@arch.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Archaeological science; ancient materials and technologies; history of science and technology; comparative state formation in the tropics; food, technology and political economy; material culture; community archaeology; heritage management; archaeology of colonialism and post-colonialism

Geographical Areas:

Africa; Europe; Central America; Indian Ocean Rim

Research Profile

Selected Research Activities

  • Archaeometry and social formation in southern Africa (British Academy, PI)
  • Hinterland and coastal southern Africa (National Research Foundation of South Africa, PI)
  • Decolonial Archaeologies (University of Cape Town; PI)

Selected Editorial Project(s):

Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of African Archaeology (Editor in Chief)

Selected Research Awards:

Award for Best Paper Published in Antiquity, 2008 & 2019

Association of Commonwealth /universities Fellowship, 2017

British Academy Global Professorship, 2018

 

Publications
Teaching

Undergraduate

Undergraduate course lecturer for:

  • FHS Core Paper 4 - Urbanisation and Change in Complex Societies

Post-graduate Teaching

Archaeology of colonialism

Lecturer for MSc in Archaeological Science