Professor Caroline Ann Tuke Malone
Degrees
- PhD Archaeology Cambridge University
- MA Cambridge University
- BA Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University
Honours
- FSA
- FSA (Scot)
Awards & Prizes
- The Christiane and Jean Guilaine Prize 2023, (Academie Francaise) Institute des Incriptions and Belles Artes
- ERC Avanced Grant Award, 2013-18 (Fragsus)
- John Templeton Foundation Award 2006-7
- The Rome Scholarship (1981-2)
- British Council Scholarship (1980-81)
- DES Full PhD Scholarship (1981-5)
Research Interests
- Prehistoric Archaeology
- Mediterranean prehistory in Malta, Sicily and Italy
- History of Archaeology
- Ancient Art
- Origins of Agriculture, Social Theory, Ritual and Religion
Biography
Caroline Malone read Arch and Anth at New Hall (1977-80) before commencing a Cambridge PhD based on field research in Italy. She was appointed Curator of the Alexander Keiller Museum Avebury and Inspector of Ancient Monuments (English Heritage) 1985-90. She was Lecturer/Senior Lecturer at Bristol University before returning to Cambridge as Staff Tutor for Archaeology with the Board of Continuing Education (Madingley). Alongside this she was Editor of Antiquity and served at Senior Proctor for New Hall. In 2000 she was appointed Keeper at the British Museum until major restructuring brought her back to Cambridge as Senior Tutor of Hughes Hall. From 2007 she taught at Queen’s University Belfast, where she was Professor of Prehistory until she retired in 2022 The author of many papers and books on her research, she also organized with her husband Simon Stoddart a succession of important field projects in Malta, Italy and Scotland which saw major discoveries, enhanced museum displays, student participation and significant new knowledge as outputs of archaeological fieldwork. She has undertaken media work, grant assessments for Leverhulme, AHRC, the British Academy and the EU, and is currently a DCMS Trustee for the Museum of the Home.