Disney_Professor_of_Archaeology

Disney Professor of Archaeology

Disney Professor of Archaeology

Endowed chair in archaeology

The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed by English barrister and antiquarian John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000. He arranged for a further £3,500 bequest upon his death in 1857.[1][2]

As of 2022 Disney Professors have also served as the Directors of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, which was founded in 1990.[3]

List of Disney Professors of Archaeology

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Gill, David. "Disney, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7686. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. [2]
    Clark, John Willis (1904). Endowments of the University of Cambridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 222–223 – via Internet Archive.
  3. [3]
    "New Disney Professor Announced". McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. University of Cambridge. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 2018-02-04.

Further reading

  • Tilley, C.Y., 1989, "Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture." In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.
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