Sarah Semple
Sarah Jane Semple, FBA (born July 1973) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in the early medieval period, landscape archaeology and material culture of northwest Europe. Having worked at St Cross College, Oxford and the University of Chester, she has taught at the University of Durham since 2006.[1][2]
Biography
[edit | edit source]Semple was born in July 1973.[3] She studied medieval archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree.[2] She then worked in commercial archaeology, before joining The Queen's College, Oxford for postgraduate study.[1] In 2003, she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in the University of Oxford's School of Archaeology with a doctoral thesis titled "Anglo-Saxon attitudes to the past: a landscape perspective: a study of the secondary uses and perceptions of prehistoric monuments in Anglo-Saxon society".[4]
Having completed her DPhil, she was a post-doctoral research fellow at St Cross College, Oxford.[1] Then, in 2004, she was appointed a lecturer at the University of Chester.[5] In 2006, she moved to Durham University.[2]
Honours
[edit | edit source]In 2024, she was awarded the Landscape Archaeology Medal by the British Academy.[6] In July 2025, she was elected Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[7]
Selected works
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- 1973 births
- Living people
- 21st-century British archaeologists
- Fellows of St Cross College, Oxford
- British women archaeologists
- Medieval archaeologists
- Archaeologists of Europe
- Academics of the University of Chester
- Academics of Durham University
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Alumni of the UCL Institute of Archaeology
- Alumni of the Queen's College, Oxford