Eleanor Scott (born 8 July 1960) is a British archaeologist and politician. She founded the

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference The Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (TRAC) is an academic organisation and conference which was designed to be an arena for open discussion of archaeological theory in Roman archaeology. History TRAC, organised initially by Eleanor Sc ...

(TRAC) in 1991.

Career

Scott is from the Isle of Man. She graduated from

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...

in 1982, subsequently completing her PhD on Romano-British villas funded by the Isle of Man. Scott has published several monographs and contributed many articles to journals in addition to contributing to public outreach programmes such as the Day of Archaeology. Scott founded the

in 1991. TRAC was founded as a response of criticism in the late 1980s of a lack of theoretical basis in Roman archaeology and the conference has since become an annual series. The progression of scholars participating in these conferences into academia and museums has consequently positioned theory at the core of Roman Archaeology and changed the direction of the discipline.

Political career

Scott was a Liberal Democrat member of

Portsmouth City Council Portsmouth City Council is the local authority of the city of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. It provides a full range of local government s ...

from 2002 to 2015, and she resigned in January 2014.

conferred the title of honorary alderman on her in 2016.

Selected works

* Scott, E. (ed) 1993. ''Theoretical Roman Archaeology: First Conference Proceedings'' (TRAC 1). Aldershot. * Scott, E. 1993. ''A Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain''.University of Leicester School of Archaeological Studies. * Scott, E. and Moore, J. (eds) 1996. ''Invisible People and Places. Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology''. Routledge. * Scott, E. 1999. ''The archaeology of infancy and infant death''. Archaeopress. .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Eleanor 1960 births Women classical scholars Living people British women archaeologists Manx people Liberal Democrats (UK) councillors Alumni of Newcastle University Councillors in Hampshire Women councillors in England