Disney Professor of Archaeology

The Disney Professorship of Archaeology, also known as the Disney Chair, is a professorship in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed with a donation of £1,000 by John Disney in 1851, followed by a further £3,500 in a bequest at his death.

There is no association with the Walt Disney Company.

List of Disney Professors of Archaeology

• 1851–1865 John Howard Marsden
• 1865–1879 Churchill Babington
• 1879–1887 Percy Gardner
• 1887–1892 George Forrest Browne
• 1892–1926 William Ridgeway
• 1926–1938 Ellis Minns
• 1938–1952 Dorothy Garrod
• 1952–1974 Grahame Clark
• 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel
• 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew
• 2004–2014 Graeme Barker
• 2014–0000 Cyprian Broodbank

References

• Tilley, C.Y., 1989, Discourse and power: The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture. In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. (Eds), Domination and Resistance. London: Routledge.

External links

• Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge