Professor Simon Keay of the University has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
A specialist in Roman Archaeology and Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the University’s Faculty of Humanities, he has been awarded the honour in recognition of his outstanding contribution to research.
The British Academy has elected a total of 66 Fellows this year, including 42 distinguished UK academics, spanning the breadth of the humanities and social sciences.
Commenting on becoming a Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Keay said:
“It is a great honour, and I hope that it will give me the opportunity to help further raise the high profile of Archaeology and Humanities at Southampton within the broader academic community in the UK and beyond.”
Professor Keay, who is also Research Professor and Director of Archaeology at the British School at Rome, has been the Principal Investigator on numerous international archaeological research projects. Perhaps most notably, Professor Keay is the Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded ‘Portus Project’. He has been working at Portus, the ancient port of Rome, since 1998.
Recently, Professor Keay was awarded €2.49 million of European Research Council funding to study a large network of Roman ports in the Mediterranean – stretching from Turkey in the east, to Spain in the west.
Professor Keay was formally elected as a Fellow of the British Academy on the 14 July, and will be formally admitted in late September 2016.
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