Role Models
The perceived lack of role models for women was a deep concern reflected in the national survey of 2008. In order to address this, BWA feel that the establishment of a National Role Model Academy will provide support and encouragement especially for women working and studying within British Archaeology. It is anticipated this will provide some evidence of the wider support for women in the profession and reduce any feelings of isolation.
National Role Models are men and women who have been nominated by members as being influential in supporting or encouraging them in their career. More to follow!
Donna Kurtz
Biography: Born in Cincinnati, Ohio. BA University of Cincinnati. MA Yale University, Woodrow Wilson Scholar, DPhil Oxford University, Marshall Scholar at Somerville College. Beazley Archivist since 1970 and Fellow of Wolfson College since 1979.
The Archive belongs to Faculty of Classics but was housed in the Ashmolean Museum until the faculty’s Ioannou School opened in spring 2007 when it changed the principal name from Beazley Archive (www.beazley.ox.ac.uk) to the university’s Classical Art Research Centre. In addition to directing the Archive Professor Kurtz teaches undergraduates for Classics and History of Art and graduates for the School of Archaeology; thesis subjects range from ‘traditional’ object study to Reception and Collection of classical art since antiquity. She has supervised about 40 doctoral theses, written books and articles on classical art, Reception, and ICT application in the Humanities. http://www.cvaonline.org/archive/kurtz.htm
Diana Murray
Secretary (Chief Executive): Mrs Diana Murray MA FSA FSAScot MIFA
Mrs Murray has an MA in Archaeology and Anthropology from Cambridge University and has been employed by RCAHMS since 1976. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1977 and of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1986. She was elected chair of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, the professional body for archaeological practice in Britain from 1995-6 and set up the Register of Archaeological Organisations which helps to set and maintain standards for the profession. She has lectured and published extensively on information systems for archives and the importance of public access to such data.
Charlotte Roberts, 52
Career Profile: Charlotte started her career as a nurse, moved into archaeology and gaining a PhD in 1988, and has been a University based human bioarchaeologist for the last 25 years, gaining promotion to a Professorship in 2004.
Why do you support the BWA? Having high maintenance dogs, but no children, and being active in the great outdoors, like women who have children I have found balancing work and the rest of my life very difficult. This is especially so with the pressure placed on university academics in general to perform at a high level in everything they do. I support the BWA because I feel that the other things women do in their lives, whatever they might be, should be better recognised so that we are treated as equally as the opposite sex.
http://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/?username=drk0car
