Dan Hicks
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Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a fellow of St Cross College Oxford. His research and writing ranges across what he calls the 'four As' - art, anthropology, archaeology, and architecture. His books include The Brutish Museums (Pluto 2020) and Every Monument Will Fall: a story of remembering and forgetting (Penguin 2025).
Working between Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Heritage, Material Culture and Architecture, Dan's research, curation and writing has focused especially on the enduring nature of colonialism in the recent and contemporary world, and the use of an archaeological lens to understand early modern, modern and contemporary history.