Dr John Schofield
BA (Soton), Ph.D. (Soton), MIFA
Visiting Fellow in ArchaeologyDepartment of Archaeology and Anthropology |
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Background and Research Interests
John is a historical archaeologist with interests and expertise in contemporary archaeology,
landscape, heritage management and characterisation, conflict archaeology, contemporary art as
representations and interpretations of the world around us, and material culture and memory.
John has worked for English Heritage since 1989 following a PhD at Southampton University.
He spent fourteen years with the Monuments Protection Programme (MPP), mostly as an Inspector but
in 2000 as Head of the MPP. Since then he has worked in the
Characterisation Team,
and also – since 2001 – as Head of Military Programmes, co-ordinating English Heritage’s increasing involvement
with
World World II and Cold War heritage, reflected most recently in two publications:
Modern Military Matters, a research framework
for recent military archaeology published by the CBA, and Combat Archaeology:
material culture and modern conflict, for Duckworth. He also teaches in the Department of Archaeology at Southampton University.
Current research projects include studying the Cold War peace camps at Greenham Common and the Nevada Desert, recording the former Stasi prison compound at Hohenshoenhausen, in eastern Berlin, and working amongst the former bars, music halls and brothels of Strait Street, Valletta in Malta. John is also researching war art (painting and graffiti on abandoned military sites), and is working with contemporary artists exploring their contribution to the recording and interpretation of contemporary material culture. Finally, John is involved with others in English Heritage’s Change and Creation research programme
Teaching
John teaches on the MA Landscape
Archaeology, on the
MA Historical Archaeology of
the Modern World, MA Archaeology for Screen Media, and also contributes to a postgraduate unit on archaeology and heritage.
Selected Publications (since 2001)
Books and Monographs
2002. Matériel Culture: the archaeology of 20th century conflict. Routledge, One World Archaeology. (Edited with William Gray Johnson and Colleen Beck).
2004. Modern Military Matters: studying and managing the twentieth-century defence heritage in Britain. York: Council for British Archaeology.
2005. Combat Archaeology: material culture and modern conflict. London: Duckworth (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology)
2006. War Art: murals and graffiti – military life, power and subversion. York: Council for British Archaeology. Council for British Archaeology (with Wayne Cocroft, Danielle Devlin and Roger J.C. Thomas)
2006. Re-mapping the field: new approaches in conflict archaeology. Berlin: Werlag (Edited with Axel Klausmeier and Louise Purbrick)
in press. A Fearsome heritage: the diverse legacies of the Cold War (Left Coast Press, in One World Archaeology series). (Edited with Wayne Cocroft).
E-Books
2006. Constructing place: when artists and archaeologists meet. www.diffusion.org.uk
Online Conference Papers
2004. The Archaeology of Anti-Nuclear Protests. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 2004 (with Colleen M. Beck and Harold Drollinger, Desert Research Institute) [pdf]
Professional Publications
2004. Military wall art: conservation and management guidelines. English Heritage. (with Wayne Cocroft, Danielle Devlin, Robert Gowing and Roger JC Thomas)
2004. Change and Creation: historic landscape character 1950-2000. London: English Heritage. (with A. Bradley, V. Buchli, G. Fairclough, D. Hicks, and J. Miller)
2004. HERs on-line: a critique. Historic Environment Record News 4: 9-11. [pdf]
2004. New directions: taking characterisation into new fields. Conservation Bulletin 47, 28-33.
2005. Opinion: Why write off graffiti? British Archaeology 81 (March/April 2005): 39.
2005. An up-to-date record: HERs and the later twentieth century. Historic Environment Record News 5, 2-5 [pdf]
2006. Art of War. British Archaeology 86, 44-47 (with Wayne Cocroft, Danielle Devlin and Roger JC Thomas) [link]
2006. Retthinking heritage management. British Archaeology 89, 11.
Journal Articles
2000. The queer archaeology of Green Gate: interpreting contested space at Greenham Common Airbase. World Archaeology 32 (2), 236-51.(with Mike Anderton)
2001. D-Day sites in England: an assessment. Antiquity 75 (287), 77-83.
2001. Second World War remains on Black Down: a reinterpretation. Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeology and Natural History Society 142, 271-86.
2003. Images of the Cold War: combat art. Conservation Bulletin 44: 43-4 (with Wayne Cocroft).
2003. The archaeology of opposition: Greenham Common and Peace Camp, Nevada, Conservation Bulletin 44: 47-9 (with Colleen Beck and Harold Drollinger)
2003. Conserving legacies of the Cold War: an excavation in five parts. Transactions of the Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings 26: 37-45.
2004. Painful pasts; painful places: confronting ambivalence at the Islands of Vanishment conference, Port Arthur Historic Site, 7-10 June 2002. Public Archaeology 3(3): 184-88.
2005. Discordant landscapes: managing modern heritage at Twyford Down, Hampshire (England). International Journal of Heritage Studies 11:2.
Book Chapters
2001. The role of aerial photographs in national strategic programmes: assessing recent military sites in England. In B. Bewley and W Raczowski (eds), The Use of Aerial Photographs in Europe, 269-82. Amsterdam, IOS Press.
2002. Introduction: matériel culture in the modern world. In J. Schofield, W. Gray Johnson and Colleen Beck Matériel Culture: the archaeology of 20th century conflict. Routledge, One World Archaeology, pp. 1-8. (with William Gray Johnson and Colleen Beck)
2002. Monuments and the memories of war: motivations for preserving military sites in England. In J. Schofield, W. Gray Johnson and Colleen Beck Matériel Culture: the archaeology of 20th century conflict. Routledge, One World Archaeology, pp. 143-58.
2002. War Stories: the role of archival sources in assessing England's defence heritage. In R Harrison, M Gillespie and M. Peuramaki-Brown (eds), Eureka: The Archaeology of Innovation & Science: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference.
2002. The archaeology of 20th century warfare: global, national and local perspectives. In D. Jones (ed), 20th Century Heritage: our recent cultural legacy, 67-76. School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, University of Adelaide and Australia ICOMOS Secretariat.
2004. Aftermath: materiality on the home front, 1914-2001. In N. Saunders (ed), Matters of Conflict: material culture, memory and the First World War, 192-206. Routledge.
2005. Views of the Wall – allied perspectives. In Schmidt, L. and von Preuschen, H. (eds), On both sides of the Wall: preserving monuments and sites of the Cold War era, 36-43. (with Gp Capt Arthur Schofield) [Printed in English and German]
2006. Jessie’s Cats and other stories: presenting and interpreting recent troubles. In A.Hems and M. Blockley (eds), Heritage Interpretation, 141-62. English Heritage/Routledge.
2006. Managing the recent and contemporary past. In Hicks, D. and Beaudry, M. (eds), Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology. Cambridge University Press.(with William Gray Johnson)
2006. Alternative archaeologies of the Cold War: the preliminary results of fieldwork at the Greenham and Nevada peace camps. In Lozny, L. (ed.), Landscapes under pressure: recent approaches to cultural heritage research and preservation, 149-62. New York, Springer (with Colleen Beck and Harold Drollinger)
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