Harriet Crawford
Harriet Crawford | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1937 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | archaeology |
| Institutions | UCL Institute of Archaeology |
Harriet Elizabeth Walston Crawford, Lady Swinnerton-Dyer (born 1937[1]) is a British archaeologist. She is Reader Emerita at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and a senior fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.
Life
Harriet Crawford Browne was born in 1937,[1] the elder daughter of the judge Sir Patrick Browne[2] and Evelyn Sophie Alexandra Walston.[citation needed]
In 1983 she married the mathematician Peter Swinnerton-Dyer.[3][4]
Ruth Whitehouse, the Institute of Archaeology's first woman professor, has commented that Crawford "definitely should have been" made professor there.[5] After Crawford's retirement, the UCL Institute of Archaeology gave her the title of Reader Emerita,[6] and more recently she has also been an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute.[7]
Works
- The architecture of Iraq in the third millennium B.C.. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1977
- (ed. 1979) Subterranean Britain: aspects of underground archaeology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.
- Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
- (ed. with Robert Killick and Jane Moon) The Dilmun Temple at Saar : Bahrain and its archaeological inheritance. London; New York: Kegan Paul International, 1997.
- Dilmun and its Gulf neighbours. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Regime change in the ancient Near East and Egypt : from Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007. Proceedings of the British Academy, 136.
- (ed. with Augusta McMahon) Preludes to urbanism : the late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2014. In honour of Joan Oates.
- The Sumerian World. London; New York: Routledge, 2013.
- Ur: city of the moon god. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
References
- ^ a b "Crawford, Harriet E. W." LC Name Authority File. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ Morris, Susan, ed. (20 April 2020). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019. p. 438. ISBN 9781999767051.
- ^ "Marriages". The Times. 26 May 1983. p. 20.
- ^ Reid, Miles (9 January 2019). "Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ "Ruth Whitehouse". Trowelblazers. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ "Emeritus". 22 January 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
- ^ "Harriet Crawford". Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved 9 August 2022.