David John Mattingly,
FBA (born 18 May 1958) is an
archaeologist and
historian
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of the
Roman world
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. He is currently Professor of Roman Archaeology at the
University of Leicester
, mottoeng = So that they may have life
, established =
, type = public research university
, endowment = £20.0 million
, budget = £326 million
, chancellor = David Willetts
, vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah
, head_lab ...
.
Biography
Mattingly's grandfather,
Harold Mattingly
Harold Mattingly (24 December 1884 – 26 January 1964) was a British classical scholar, specialising in art history and numismatics. His interests included the history of Ancient Rome, Etruscan coins, Etruscan and Roman currency, and the Roman ...
, was Keeper of the Department of Coins and Medals at the British Museum, and his father,
Harold B. Mattingly, was Professor of Ancient History at Leeds University. He received a
BA in History at the
University of Manchester
, mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity
, established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...
, and later a
PhD from the same university, under the supervision of
Barri Jones. He was then a
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spa ...
Post-doctoral fellow at the
Institute of Archaeology, in Oxford until 1989. He was then Assistant Professor at the
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
in the United States. At Leicester University he was first Lecturer, then Reader (1995), and most recently Professor (since 1998).
In 2003, he was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Scholarship
Mattingly's main area of research is
Roman North Africa
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, especially
Libya
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and
Tunisia
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, map_caption = Location of Tunisia in northern Africa
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, capital = Tunis
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, ...
, though he has also conducted research on
Britain
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* The United Kingdom, a sovereign state in Europe comprising the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands
* Great Britain, the largest island in the United King ...
,
Italy
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and
Jordan
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. His emphasis has largely been social and economic, and centres on the study of rural settlement, farming technology and the economy; post-colonial approaches to Roman imperialism; Roman military frontiers and the study of native society beyond those frontiers.
His most recent book i
Imperialism, Power and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire.
He is an active field archaeologist, and is currently directing several expeditions examining the archaeology of the
Fazzan and the
Ghadames
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The ...
oasis in
Libya
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.
Published works
* ''Imperialism, Power and Identity: Experiencing the Roman Empire.'' (2010).
* ''The Archaeology of Fazzan: Volume 3, Excavations carried out by C M Daniels.'' (2010) (ed. D. Mattingly).
* ''Archaeology and Desertification: the Wadi Faynan Landscape Survey, southern Jordan'' (2007), (with G Barker, D Gilbertson et al.)
* ''The Archaeology of Fazzan. Volume 2, Site Gazetteer, Pottery and Other Survey Finds'' (2007), (edited by D Mattingly).
* ''The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization'' (2006). (edited with G Shipley, J Vanderspoel and L Foxhall).
* ''The Libyan Desert: Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage'' (2006).(edited with S McLaren, E Savage, Y al-Fasatwi and K Gadgood).
* ''The Archaeology of Fazzan: Volume 1'' (2003) edited by D. Mattingly
* ''Leptiminus (Lamta): Report no. 2'' (2001), (with L Stirling and N Ben Lazreg)
* ''Leptiminus (Lamta): a Roman port city in Tunisia, Report no. 1.''(1992) (with N Ben Lazreg and contributions from others)
* ''Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World'' (2001) (edited with J Salmon)
* ''Life, Death and Entertainment in Ancient Rome.'' (1999), (edited with D Potter)
* ''Dialogues in Roman Imperialism. Power, Discourse and Discrepant Experience in the Roman Empire'' (1997), (editor David Mattingly)
* ''Farming the Desert. The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Archaeological Survey. Volume 2, Gazetteer and Pottery'' (1996), (edited. DJ Mattingly)
* ''Tripolitania''. Batsford, London (1995)
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References
''Debrett's People of Today''
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1958 births
English archaeologists
University of Michigan faculty
Academics of the University of Leicester
Living people
Fellows of the British Academy
Historians of the Roman Empire