The Revs Program at Stanford, launched in 2011. Funded by a substantial multimillion dollar gift to Stanford, this is a major new interdisciplinary initiative exploring the archaeology and history of the automobile as a window on human-centered design and engineering.
The excavations of Binchester Roman Town, beginning 2009 for an initial five seasons. Support from Stanford University, Durham University, Durham County Council, and English Heritage - about $800k.
The France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies awarded $15k in 2008 for setting up a research network focused on French antiquarian thought.
Stanford Humanites Center lent support to me and Giovanna Ceserani in our project Anglo-American-Antiquarians with $10k seed funding as part of its Research Networks program.
Brown University's Internationalization Initiative awarded $10k seed funding for Anglo-American-Antiquarians. Collaborators at Brown were Harriette Hemassi (University Librarian), Sue Alcock (Director, Joukowsky Institute), Chris Witmore (Joukowsky Institute).
The Stanford Presidential Fund for Innovation in the Humanities awarded $50k to a project with Ian Hodder, Gail Mahood and Jody Maxmin - Ceramics - the materiality of a medium. Stanford Archaeology Center added to the award to create a Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Stanford Humanities Lab - [link]. I directed SHL with Jeffrey Schnapp and Henry Lowood from 2005. Up to 2007 our annual budget was about $300k - devoted to projects within the new humanities. Before I joined as CoDirector, SHL suported my Traumwerk project with $25k - 2003-2005.
Presence - "Performing presence: from the live to the simulated". 2005-2009, with final publication in 2012. With Nick Kaye and Gabriella Giannachi in Exeter and Mel Slater at University College London. The project received $500k funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK.
Life-Squared - an archival experience in Second Life, a virtual world - the future of the museum explored as we revisited with artist Lynn Hershman a hotel room in 1972, site of an installation of hers - [link] - part of the Presence Project and funded by the Langlois Foundation - June 2006 - July 2007 - $50k.
Critical Studies in New Media - a Mellon funded workshop sponsored by Stanford Humanities Center. I ran research workshops through Stanford Humanities Center from 1999 - 2007. Annual funding was $7.5k. I ran this workshop with Fred Turner (Professor, Communications) under the topic of the "Politics of presence", and we received another $8k for an experiment in collaborative research and fused media in May 2007.
Co-creating cultural heritage - enabling communities build their own history and heritage using participatory software - funded by the Wallenberg Global Learning Network. With Kristian Kristiansen, Hakan Karlsson, and Anders Gustafsson in Gothenburg. $50k funding for 2006/2007.
Burtynsky at Stanford and http://burtynsky.stanford.edu - an interactive web site accompanying the exhibition at Stanford in the summer of 2005 of the work of this great photographer - currently archived (but see http://archaeographer.com for images). $5k from the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford.
Behind the locked door - an exploration of the storerooms of Stanford's Cantor Arts Center - 2007. Funding and support from the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford.
Mobile Media 2015 when archaeology met car design - an ethnography-oriented foresight model of material culture in the vehicle interior of 2015. June 2005 - February 2006. $60k funding from DaimlerChrysler.
Conversations through archaeology - an ongoing series of discussions hosted with Bill Rathje in Stanford Archaeology Center, Various sources of funding, including the Office of the Deans, School of Humanities and Sciences.
Brith Gof - a theatre company. Experimental site specific works in old and new media. Mike and I wrote Theatre/Archaeology together. Cliff and I developed and directed The Three Landscapes Project. Various sources of funding, including Arts Council for Wales.
The Three Landscapes Project - Stanford 2000 - when Cliff McLucas Brith Gof, Dorian Llywelyn (theologian) and I explored the nature of place and landscape in Wales, California and Sicily. Stanford Humanities Center provided four fellowships (two senior and two junior) for this project. Stanford's Dean of Research contributed $10k for logistical support. My Metamedia Lab provided equipment and facilities.
Sicily - Monte Polizzo - excavating a hilltop site in the west of Sicily - 1998-2000. The Tressider and Hoskins Funds of Stanford's Department of Classics supplied about $70k support for season 1999.
1991-1992 A Fellowship from the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme facilitated more research into the early Greek state; I was affiliated with the Centre d'Archéologie Classique, Paris 1 (Sorbonne).
The early Greek city state - researching the design of the polis - 1988-1999. Support for this, my doctoral research, came from a British Academy Fellowship and from my college Peterhouse, Cambridge. Canon UK contributed photo equipment.