A hybrid half-day workshop celebrating Professor Jim Crow FSA organised by the Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (CLAIBS) in collaboration with the Departments of Archaeology and Classics
Professor Jim Crow retired after a distinguished career at the end of April, 2023. Jim taught Classical and Byzantine Archaeology in Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology from 2007 to 2023 and was affiliated with both the Departments of Archaeology and Classics.
Jim studied at Birmingham, Newcastle and Sofia Universities, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, and taught at the University of Warwick and Newcastle University before joining Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology. From 1982 to 1989 he directed excavations for the National Trust on Hadrian’s Wall and was a member of the Management Committee for Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site. At Newcastle he directed training excavations at High Rochester fort in Northumberland. In Turkey he has undertook survey projects on the Black Sea and from 1994 in the west hinterland of Istanbul, surveying and documenting the Anastasian Wall and the Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople.
There will be the opportunity to join the event online. Please indicate if you plan to do so and joining instructions will be sent nearer the event.
The event will be followed by a reception.
