Michael Gordon Fulford, CBE, FBA, is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading, He studied Archaeology and Latin at Southampton University, where he was also awarded a doctorate. Between 1971 and 1974, he was employed as the personal research assistant of Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and was afterwards appointed lecturer and later also reader at the University of Reading. He received a personal professorship in 1988 and became professor of the Chair of Archaeology at the university when it was established in 1993. He has also been Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor. Elected in 1977, he is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and has served on both the Council and the Executive and Research Committees of the Society. In 1994 Michael Fulford was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. He is currently the Honorary Treasurer of the Academy. Between 1994 and 1998, he was editor for the academic journalBritannia. Fulford served as the President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from 2005 to 2008, and is currently a vice-president. For the period between 2003 and 2007, he was granted the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Fulford has served as chairman of the Roman Research Trust since 2009. Fulford has published widely on subjects relating to Romano-British and Roman archaeology, especially with regards to the dynamics of towns, landscape archaeology and the economy. He is probably best known for a series of digs conducted since 1974 at the site of the former Iron Age and Romano-British town of Silchester, Hampshire. Fulford was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours. In 2013, a supplement of the Journal of Roman Archaeology was published in Fulford's honour. Fulford was appointed a Commissioner of English Heritage in 2014. Fulford won the 2015 Archaeologist of the Year award at the Current Archaeology Awards, as voted for by the general public. The awards were announced on 27 February 2015 as part of the annual Current Archaeology Live! conference.
Selected writing
, with N. Holbrook. The Towns of Roman Britain. The Contribution of Commercial Archaeology since 1990. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Britannia monograph series 27. London.
, with A. Clarke. Silchester: City in Transition. The Mid-Roman Occupation of Insula IX c. A.D. 125-250/300. A report on excavations undertaken since 1997. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Britannia monograph series 25. London.
, with A. Clarke and H. Eckardt. Life and Labour in Late Roman Silchester: Excavations in Insula IX from 1997. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Britannia monograph series 22. London.
, with A.B. Powell, R. Entwhistle, F. Raymond. Iron Age and Romano-British Settlements and Landscapes of Salisbury Plain.Wessex Archaeology Monograph 20. Wessex Archaeology. Salisbury.
, with Jane Timby. Late Iron Age and Roman Silchester: Excavations on the Site of the Forum-Basilica, 1977, 1980–86. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
The Silchester Amphitheatre: Excavations of 1979–85. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Britannia monograph series 10. London.
, with Mark Corney. Silchester: excavations on the defences, 1974–80. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies. Britannia monograph series. London.
. New Forest Roman pottery: manufacture and distribution, with a corpus of the pottery types. Oxford.
