James H. Barrett
Education
- 1996: PhD in Archaeology, University of Glasgow (Commonwealth Scholar)
- 1992: MA in Archaeology, University of Toronto
- 1989: BA Specialist in Anthropology, Minor in History, University of Toronto (High Distinction)
Previous appointments held
- 2005–2007: Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of York
- 1999–2005: Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of York
- 1996–1999: Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Other activities
- Member of Council, Society for Medieval Archaeology
- Associate editor, Medieval Archaeology
- Member, steering committee of History of Marine Animal Populations, the historical branch of the Census of Marine Life
- Peer-reviewer for the AHRC (research leave scheme), the NERC, the European Science Foundation, the Belgian Federal Science Policy Research Programme, the Danish Commission for Scientific Research in Greenland, Antiquity, American Antiquity, the European Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Britannia, the Journal of Archaeological Science, the Journal of the North Atlantic, the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Northern Studies, Internet Archaeology, Fisheries Research, Brill and a variety of other funding bodies and publishers.
Conferences
- Director of the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar series Crisis, what Crisis? Collapses and Dark Ages in Comparative Perspective involving workshops on the 5th, 9th and 14th centuries - followed by an international comparative conference on September 24th–26th, 2010
- Workshop organiser for Cod and Herring: The Archaeology and Early History of Intensive Fishing, Westray, Orkney, June 4th–8th, 2008
- Programme coordinator for Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World, Kirkwall, Orkney, May 31st–June 4th, 2008
- Member of the Scientific Committee for the 14th Meeting of the International Council for Archaeozoology Fish Remains Working Group, Antibes, France, October 18th–20th, 2007
- Workshop co-organiser for The Global Origins and Development of Seafaring, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, September 19th–21st 2007.