Nationality British Occupation Archaeologist | Name Timothy Insoll | |
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Edited works The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion Books The Archaeology of Islam, Archaeology - ritual - religion, The Archaeology of Islam i, Archaeology: The Conceptu, Temporalising Anthropology: Archaeol | ||
Objects and Power: Timothy Insoll
Timothy Insoll (born 1967) is a British archaeologist and academic. He specialises in the archaeology of religions and rituals and, in particular, the archaeology of Islam in Africa, and African indigenous religions. He is a lecturer at the University of Manchester, and has published widely.
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Early life
Insoll undertook his undergraduate studies in archaeology at the University of Sheffield from 1989 to 1992, before going on to work on his PhD at St John's College, Cambridge from 1992 to 1995.
Academic career
Having completed his doctorate, Insoll became a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge (1995-1998). Appointed as a lecturer at Manchester in 1999, he was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer, and then Reader in 2004, being awarded a personal chair in 2005, where he is Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology. He is an Honorary Curator of the Ghana Museums Board and Honorary Academic Curator of African Archaeology at Manchester Museum.
Insoll is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is currently on the Editorial Boards of Antiquity, Ghana Social Science Journal, Journal of African Archaeology, Journal of Islamic Archaeology, Journal of Skyscape Archaeology, and Material Religion. Previously he was on the Editorial Board of the African Archaeological Review.
Insoll is an active field archaeologist having directed archaeological fieldwork in Gao and Timbuktu in Mali, Dahlak Kebir in Eritrea, Gujarat in western India, the Tong Hills of northern Ghana, Bilad al-Qadim in Bahrain, and currently in the Harar region of eastern Ethiopia. He has also participated in field projects in Rakai district in Uganda, on Pemba Island, in Koma Land in northern Ghana, and in the Mursi area of south-west Ethiopia.
Personal life
Insoll is a Roman Catholic.