Andy Merrills

I studied Modern History as an undergraduate at The Queen’s College, Oxford, before moving to Trinity College, Cambridge to do an MPhil and a PhD in early medieval history. After a further post-doctoral year as a Rouse-Ball Student at Trinity, I became a Post-Doctoral Research Assistant on the History and Theory of Description project at King’s College, Cambridge. I then spent a year as a Solmsen Research Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, before coming to Leicester as an RCUK Research Fellow in the summer of 2005. I have been a full-time lecturer in the School since September 2010.

I have undertaken some archaeological work – both excavation (in Auvergne in Central France), and survey (in the Amblès Valley in Spain) – but increasingly my summers are spent in libraries, rather than in the field.