Timothy Insoll#
| Membership Number: | 6929 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/staff/insoll/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3072-3088 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016 Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology, University of Exeter
- 2005 - 2016 Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology, University of Manchester
- 2004 - 2005 Senior Lecturer and Reader in Archaeology, University of Manchester
- 1999 - 2004 Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Manchester
- 1995 - 1998 Research Fellow in Archaeology, St John's College Cambridge
- 2015 - 2019 Visiting Professor, Department of Archaeology, Jinka University, Ethiopia
- 2011 - 2013 Honorary Curator, Ghana Museums and Monuments Board
- Since 2001 Honorary Archaeological Advisor to the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain
Fields of Scholarship
- African archaeology
- Islamic archaeology
- Archaeology of religion
Honours and Awards
- 2025 OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the UK New Year 2025 Honours List for services to Archaeology in Bahrain and UK/Bahrain relations
- 2023 Fellow of the British Academy
- 2016 - 2022 PI ERC Advanced Grant 'Becoming Muslim. Conversion to Islam and Islamisation in Eastern Ethiopia'
- 2002 Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
- 2001 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
