The Disney Professorship of Archaeology is an endowed chair in archaeology at the University of Cambridge. It was endowed by English barrister and antiquarian John Disney in 1851 with a donation of £1,000. He arranged for a further £3,500 bequest upon his death in 1857.^[1][2]

As of 2022^[update] Disney Professors have also served as the Directors of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, which was founded in 1990.^[3]

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
• 1939–1952 Dorothy Garrod
• 1952–1974 Grahame Clark
• 1974–1981 Glyn Daniel
• 1981–2004 Colin Renfrew
• 2004–2014 Graeme Barker
• 2014–0000 Cyprian Broodbank

See also

• List of professorships at the University of Cambridge

References

Further reading

• 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