Harriet Crawford

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Harriet Crawford
Born1937
Scientific career
Fieldsarchaeology
InstitutionsUCL 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

  1. ^ a b "Crawford, Harriet E. W." LC Name Authority File. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
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  3. ^ "Marriages". The Times. 26 May 1983. p. 20.
  4. ^ Reid, Miles (9 January 2019). "Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Ruth Whitehouse". Trowelblazers. 28 July 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Emeritus". 22 January 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Harriet Crawford". Bloomsbury Academic. Retrieved 9 August 2022.