A. G. Leventis Fellow in African Archaeology, University of Cambridge
In 2018, the University of Cambridge appointed Professor Paul Lane as the inaugural Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa. With the support of the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the university established a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship to bring another Africanist archaeologist to the institution, to work alongside Professor Lane, strengthening research in sub-Saharan Africa archaeology of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene periods. Dr Federica Sulas, A. G. Leventis Fellow in African Archaeology, has strong research interests in the archaeology of early urbanism in Africa and the historical ecology of ancient African towns, and plans to develop new archaeological and historical ecology research on urbanising landscapes and water security in sub-Saharan Africa, with particular reference to the sites of Aksum and Great Zimbabwe. This fellowship will further the goal of building long-term research collaborations across the African continent, promoting cross-disciplinary thinking and giving graduate and post-graduate researchers new avenues of research.
Grants given:
2018, 2019, 2020
