British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor David Mattingly

Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Leicester

Year Elected: 2003

He has made significant contributions to the study of Roman imperialism, through writing at the interface between archaeology and ancient history on a number of aspects of the Roman economy, and executing major programmes of fieldwork in Italy, Tunisia, Libya and Jordan. He is Britain's leading expert on Roman North Africa.