Ian Ralston#
| Membership Number: | 4220 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://ianralston.co.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013, August - 2016, July Head of School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
- 2012, August Election to the Abercromby Professorship of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
- 2006 August - 2007 March Brown Fellow and Visiting Professor of Anthropology, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, USA
- 1998, August - 2012, July Personal Chair in Later European Prehistory, University of Edinburgh
- 1990, August - 1998, July Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
- 1990, August - 2000, July Director, Centre for Field Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
- 1985 August - 1990, July Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
- 1977 September - 1985 July Lecturer in Geography / Archaeology, University of Aberdeen
- 1974 September - 1977 August Research Fellow in Archaeology, University of Aberdeen
Fields of Scholarship
- Temperate European later prehistory
- British prehistory (particularly Scotland) from the Mesolithic to the post-Roman period
- Iron Age archaeology of western Europe
- Applied archaeology
- History of archaeology
- Early Historic Archaeology of Scotland
Honours and Awards
- 2012 D Litt, University of Edinburgh
- 2011 Dalrymple Lecturer, University of Glasgow
- 2009 Officer of the British Empire (OBE) for services to archaeology in Scotland, Queen’s Birthday Honours
- 2006 Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1988 Fellow, Society of Antiquaries of London
- 1987 Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, now the Chartered Institute of Field Archaeologists
- 1984 Correspondant étranger, AOROC, UMR-8546-6, CNRS, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, France
