Mark Jackson

Mark Jackson is Professor of Byzantine Archaeology at Newcastle University, UK. He teaches and researches Late Roman and Byzantine Archaeology with a particular focus on rural settlement and ceramics. He has been involved in many field projects over the past 30 years particularly in Türkiye and Greece. In 2021 he won a grant from the British Museum and Arcadia’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme with Richard Carlton for the project Documenting the Material Knowledge Systems of the Last Surviving Potters in Bosnia. He is also Co-director of the Kato Choria Excavation project, is responsible for the publication of the finds from the Apalirou Environs Project and was Co-Director for the Byzantine for the Kilise Tepe Archaeological Project. He is Principal Investigator for the UKRI-AHRC RICHeS-funded project Transforming Access to Mediterranean Cultural Heritage Science Collections. At Newcastle University, Mark is also Co-Curator of the Gertrude Bell Archive, a UNESCO International Memory of the World. He is also Honorary Secretary of the British Institute at Ankara.