Dan Hicks

Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator of World Archaeology at Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He has published widely on material and visual culture from the recent past and the near present, and across archaeology, anthropology, architecture and art. He has written for a range of publications, including Frieze Magazine, Architectural Review, The Art Newspaper, Art Review, The Guardian, Apollo Magazine, and British Art Studies. Dan's most recent books are The Brutish Museums (Pluto 2020), Lande: the Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond (with Sarah Mallet, Bristol University Press 2019), Archaeology and Photography (edited with Lesley McFadyen, Bloomsbury 2019) and Isle of Rust (with Alex Boyd and Jonathan Meades, Luath Press 2019). His next book, Every Monument Will Fall, will be published in 2025.

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