University of Kent

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Luke was educated at Durham, Oxford and Nottingham Universities. He joined the University of Kent as a Lecturer in Archaeology in 2007. He came to Kent fresh from the Katholieke University Leuven (Belgium),where he had worked as a Post- Doctoral Fellow on the Sagalassos Project (in modern Turkey). Before that he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Humboldt Foundation, University of Cologne, the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara, and the Collège de France in Paris. Luke is particularly interested in the everyday use of space in the Late Antique and Early Medieval city (AD 300-700), drawing on archaeological, textual and epigraphic evidence from across the Roman Empire. Luke is currently responsible for field archaeology instruction.

 

Luke is the editor of Late Antique Archaeology