Elizabeth Graham (academic)


Elizabeth Graham is a Professor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at UCL.

Education

Graham completed a BA in History at the University of Rhode Island in 1970. She obtained a Phd in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 1983, entitled The Highlands of the Lowlands: Environment and Archaeology in the Stann Creek District, Belize, Central America.

Career

From 1978 to 1980 Graham was the Archaeological Commissioner in Belize. During this time she orchestrated the international training of colleagues in Belize.
During the 1980s she conducted coastal surveys in the Stann Creek District region of Belize. In the late 1980s she commenced work on Postclassic site at Lamanai. She has also conducted excavations at Negroman-Tipu, Belize. Graham directs excavations at Lamanai on the New River Lagoon in Belize, and at Marco Gonzalez, on Ambergris Caye. Recent work has focused on mission churches from the early Spanish colonial period.
In the late 1980s, Graham was a Canada Research Fellow at York University, Ontario as well as a research associate in New World Archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum. Graham joined UCL in 1999.
Graham has written on Mesoamerican archaeology in the Guardian, Apollo Magazine, and the Conversation.

Awards and honours

Graham was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2003.

Selected publications

Books