Ethiopia and Mali: Connections between the Roman/Byzantine world and sub-Saharan Africa, lecture by David Phillipson (University of Cambridge), Institute of Archaeology, University College London, June 9, 2016, 5:00 pm

In 2014, David W. Phillipson (1961) was elected a Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences in recognition of his research and publications on the archaeology of that country. As Curator of the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, latterly and concurrently Professor of African Archaeology, he was a Fellow of Caius from 1988 until 2006 when he took early retirement and was elected Emeritus Fellow. The Ethiopian Academy's citation drew attention to his "impressive publication record, ... outstanding contribution to (his) profession, ... international stature as a scholar and ... exceptional contribution to the advancement of Ethiopian scholarship". He first conducted excavations in Ethiopia in 1974, and most of his field research since 1991 has been carried out there. Professor Phillipson's recent books Ancient Churches of Ethiopia (Yale University Press, 2009) and Foundations of an African Civilisation (Boydell & Brewer, 2012) have both been reissued in Ethiopia by Addis Ababa University Press.