Professor Kenneth Dark

Professor Ken Dark works on Europe and the Mediterranean in the 1st millennium AD (especially religion, urbanism, connectivity, Late Antiquity, and the Byzantine world), archaeological method and theory in its interdisciplinary context, and on large-scale political transformations. After teaching at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, he moved to the University of Reading, where he became Professor of Archaeology and History, and Director of the Research Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies. Leaving Reading in 2021, he was Visiting Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra for a year, before moving to King's College London. He is currently at the Von Hügel Institute (VHI) in St. Edmund's College, Cambridge.

Ken is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the Royal Historical Society and Royal Anthropological Institute, and an elected Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. He has written over 100 academic publications, including 15 books, and directed many archaeological excavations and surveys in Europe and the Middle East, including in Istanbul, Nazareth, and around the shores of the Sea of Galilee. He also has extensive media experience.