'Of walls and aqueducts': Celebrating Professor Jim Crow

Professor Jim Crow retired after a distinguished career at the end of April, 2023. Jim taught Classical and Byzantine Archaeology in Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology from 2007 to 2023 and was affiliated with both Archaeology and Classics.

Jim studied at Birmingham, Newcastle and Sofia Universities, was a postdoctoral research fellow at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, and taught at the University of Warwick and Newcastle University before joining Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics and Archaeology. From 1982 to 1989 he directed excavations for the National Trust on Hadrian’s Wall and was a member of the Management Committee for Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site. At Newcastle he directed training excavations at High Rochester fort in Northumberland. In Turkey he has undertook survey projects on the Black Sea and from 1994 in the west hinterland of Istanbul, surveying and documenting the Anastasian Wall and the Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople.

In 2012 Jim organised an exhibition with colleagues from Istanbul Technical University on the water supply at ANAMED (Research Centre for Anatolian Civilizations) in Istanbul. Up to March 2023 he was the co-investigator of a British Academy/British Institute at Ankara project on ‘Water in Istanbul, rising to the challenge’, contrasting water management between the Byzantine/early Ottoman and contemporary city. Recent fieldwork includes the Apalirou Environs Project on Naxos and he is still hoping to excavate at the nearby settlement at Kato Choria with colleagues from Newcastle University.

His key publications include 'The Water Supply of Byzantine Constantinople' (2008) and 'Housesteads: A Fort and Garrison on Hadrian’s Wall' (2004).

From 2007 to 2011 and again from 2012 to 2015 Jim served as Head of Archaeology at Edinburgh. He is currently the Chair of the British Institute at Ankara.

Programme

3.15pm Welcome

3.30pm Ine Jacobs (Oxford), ‘All Walls, Great and Small’

4.15pm Scott Redford (SOAS), ‘Like Water from a Stone’

5.00pm Margaret Mullett (Edinburgh), ‘Corvine Advice’

5.45pm Conclusion

6.00pm Reception