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Awards Granted in 2002

The members of the Consultative Committee appointed to advise The Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation for the year 2002 were:

  • Mr. David Ridgway B.A., F.S.A.
    Reader in Classics, University of Edinburgh
    (Co-Trustee of the Foundation and Chairman of the Consultative Committee)
     
  • Ms. Amanda Claridge B.A., F.S.A.
    Reader in Classical Archaeology
    Royal Holloway, University of London
     
  • Professor John F. Haldon M.A., Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S.
    Head of School of Historical Studies and Professor of Byzantine History
    University of Birmingham
  • Dr. Alan W. Johnston M.A., DPhil., F.S.A.
    Reader in Classical Archaeology
    Institute of Archaeology, University College London
     
  • Dr. Gillian B. Shepherd B.A., Ph.D.
    Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology
    University of Birmingham
     
  • Dr. Ruth D. Whitehouse M.A., Ph.D., F.S.A., M.I.F.A.
    Reader in Prehistoric Archaeology
    Institute of Archaeology, University College London

Awards Granted For 2002

The Trustees have pleasure in announcing the following awards for 2002-2003:-

Fellowship Awards

  • Dr. CHRIS P GLEED-OWEN, The Herpetological Conservation Trust, towards research on Mediterranean herpetofaunas and climate history. (£2,000)
     
  • Mr. ANTOON CORNELIS MIENTJES, Lampeter, towards research on The archaeology of modern historical landscapes in the Central Mediterranean. (£7,000)
     
  • Dr. CATHERINE R. PRICE, University of Wales College, Newport, towards research on the Upper Pleistocene small mammals from the Gibraltar Caves - an environmental and taphonomic. (£4,500)
  • Dr. MARGARETE LAURA STEINER, Leiden, towards research on The Iron Age Pottery of Kirbet Al-Mudayna. (£1,600)
  • Dr. NANCY A. WINTER, American Academy in Rome, towards research on Terracotta roof decoration in Central Italy, 7th - 1st centuries B.C. (£8,000)

 

Publication Grants

  • PROFESSOR ALEXANDRA ANN CARPINO, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff (AZ), towards the publication of Discs of Splendor: The Relief Mirrors of the Etruscans. Published: University of Wisconsin Press - 2003 (£1,000)
     
  • Dr. ANTONY EASTMOND, University of Warwick, towards the publication of Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium. Hagia Sophia and the Empire of Trebizond. Published: Ashgate (Aldershot), 2004 (£1,000)
     
  • Dr. RUTH E. LEADER-NEWBY, University of Warwick, towards the publication of Silver and Society in Late Antiquity: Functions and Meanings of Silver Plate in the Fourth to Seventh Centuries AD. Published: Ashgate (Aldershot) 2004 (£900)
     
  • Dr. ANNA MUGGIA, Pavia, towards the publication of Impronte nella sabbia. Tombe infantili e subadulte nella necropoli di Valle Trebba a Spina. Published: Quaderni di Archeologia dell'Emilia Romagna g (2004) (£2,000)
     
  • Dr. KENNETH A. WARDLE, University of Birmingham, towards the publication of Lighten Our Darkness: cultural transformations at the beginning of the first millennium BC. (conference proceedings) (£1,500)  

 

David Ridgway

Marion J. Piercey
Managing Director
Albany Trustee Company Limited

All publications belonging to the Cotton Foundation are on loan to one of the three following Libraries of the Institutes of the University of London:-

  • Institute of Archaeology
  • Institute of Classical Studies
  • Warburg Institute

The three Libraries above have kindly agreed that all current holders of Cotton Fellowships, Publication grants or other awards may have free access to those Libraries.

May 2002

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