Martin Millett

Martin John Millett BA, DPhil, FBA, FSA (born 30 September 1955) is currently the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Professor Millett is an archaeologist who currently excavates a Roman-period site in Yorkshire (with Peter Halkon), directs the Roman Towns Project (with Simon Keay and the British School at Rome), and directs the Greek Colonization and Archaeology of European Development project. Professor Millett has profoundly changed Romano-British archaeology by implementing and calling for new approaches to the excavated materials.

Professor Millett is also a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, a fellow of the British Academy, and a director on the council of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He previously was at the University of Durham (1981–1998) and the University of Southampton (1999–2001), having been awarded his doctorate from the University of Oxford.

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Academic offices
Preceded by
Anthony Snodgrass
Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology Cambridge University
2001 -
Succeeded by
Incumbent