Key Staff
- Executive Director
Christopher Evans, BA MA MIFA FSA
Co-founding the Unit in 1990, Evans has worked in British Archaeology at a senior level for more than twenty-five years. He has published widely, including the Haddenham Project volumes (with Ian Hodder) and Power and Island Communities: Excavations at the Wardy Hill Ringwork, Coveney, Ely. He has, in addition, directed a number of overseas fieldwork projects (Nepal, China & Cape Verde), and is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.
- Senior Archaeological Manager
Alison Dickens, BA MIFA
Alison joined the CAU in 1991 after working for several other units in England. A senior member of staff since 1995, she is responsible for the Unit's urban, Saxon, Medieval and Post-Medieval projects. She has a special interest in standing buildings and the development of urban centres.
- Senior Archaeological Manager
David Gibson, BA
David joined the Unit in 1993 after work on several national and international projects. Specialising in the Neolithic and Bronze Age, he is responsible for many of the Unit's large quarry projects and has a special interest in prehistoric wetland archaeology.
- Archaeological Manager
Robin Standring, BA
Robin joined the Unit in 1995 and has developed research interests in the application of historic aerial photography, cartography and remote sensing to archaeology. Since 2002 he has also been a Director of CAR Ltd, working on Conservation Plans and the application of aerial photography to risk management.
- Finds Officer
Dr Gwladys Monteil, MA Mphil PhD
A specialist in Early Roman ceramics of international standing, Gwladys has been in charge of the Unit's Finds Department since 2005.
- Post-Excavation and Publications Officer
Dr Sam Lucy, BA PhD FSA
Previously a Lecturer in the University of Durham, Sam joined the CAU in 2002, and is an internationally acknowledged expert in Anglo-Saxon archaeology. Widely published, aside from a series of major Unit-excavation monographs, she is the author of The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death, and co-edited Burial in Early Medieval England and Wales and The Archaeology of Identity.
- Senior Project Officer
Craig Cessford, BA M.Litt
Craig has been a professional archaeologist for over 15 years, working mainly in Britain and Turkey, and he has been a major contributor to the Catalhoyuk monograph series. Widely published, he is particularly interested in Medieval and later urban archaeology. He has directed a number of major excavations in Cambridgeshire, including Broad Street, Ely and, most recently, the Grand Arcade site in Cambridge.
- Senior Project Officer
Mark Knight, BA
Having worked in archaeology for more than a decade in the southwest of the Country beforehand, Mark joined the CAU in 1995. He has since directed a number of the Unit's major landscape projects, and is widely acclaimed as one of Britain's leading prehistoric and wetland field archaeologists.
- Senior Researcher
Dr Simon Timberlake, BSc MSc PhD
Simon joined the Unit in 2006 after having worked on a number of research projects investigating prehistoric mining, and has published widely on this theme. His interests lie in the Bronze Age, archaeo-metallurgy and experimental archaeology.
