Helen Wickstead
FSA
OccupationsSenior Lecturer and Course Director at Kingston School of Art
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeology

Helen Wickstead FSA MCIfA FHEA is a British archaeologist, museologist, and is Senior Lecturer at Kingston University.[1]

Biography

[edit]

Wickstead has a PhD from University College London in 2007 with a thesis titled "Land division and identity in later prehistoric Dartmoor, south-west Britain: Translocating tenure".[2]

Her research includes history of archaeology, including biographical work on individuals including: Doris Emerson Chapman, on her work at Avebury; O. G. S. Crawford on his role as Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey;[3] and George Witt's 'Collection Illustrative of Phallic Worship', held at the British Museum's 'Secretum'.

In 2013, Helen Wickstead and Martyn Barber excavated long barrows at Damerham in Hampshire.[4]

On 18 November 2021 she was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[5]

Select publications

[edit]
  • Wickstead, H. (2009). "The Uber Archaeologist: Art, GIS and the male gaze revisited: Art, GIS and the male gaze revisited". Journal of Social Archaeology, 9(2), 249-271. doi:10.1177/1469605309104138
  • Wickstead, H. (2013) "Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology", in Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison, and Angela Piccini (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199602001.013.012
  • Wickstead, H. (2020). "The phallus in the closet: collecting and classifying ancient sculpture", in Joseph-Lester, Jaspar, (ed.), Everything is sculpture. Royal College of Art

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Dr Helen Wickstead MCIfA FSA". Kingston University. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
  2. ^ Wickstead, H. (2007). Land division and identity in later prehistoric Dartmoor, south-west Britain: Translocating tenure (Thesis). University College London.
  3. ^ Skeates, Robin (2025). "Editorial". Antiquity. 99 (406): 901–914. doi:10.15184/aqy.2025.10145. ISSN 0003-598X.
  4. ^ "Site yields 6,000-year-old tombs". 2009-06-11. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
  5. ^ "Dr Helen Wickstead FSA". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 16 December 2025.
[edit]