Helen Loney
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Helen Loney | |
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| Born | San Francisco Bay Area |
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| Thesis | The Development of Apennine Ceramic Manufacture: Xeroradiographic Analysis (1995) |
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| Discipline | Archaeology |
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Helen Loney is an archaeologist specialising in the study of prehistory. She has worked as a lecturer and tutor at the University of Glasgow (1996–2007), the University of Worcester (2007–2022), and the University of Oxford.[1] Loney has a number of roles with archaeology societies, working on the council of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and taking on editorial roles with the journal Post-Medieval Archaeology and the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.
Loney was born in the San Francisco Bay Area.[2] She studied a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating magna cum laude in 1983. She went on to complete a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, finishing in 1995 with a doctoral thesis tiled The Development of Apennine Ceramic Manufacture: Xeroradiographic Analysis.[1][3] Loney later emigrated to the UK.[2]
Career
Loney worked as a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Glasgow between 1996 and 2007, before moving to the University of Worcester for the start of the 2007/08 academic year as Principal Lecturer.[4] In 2008/09, Loney and Andrew Hoaen received funding to radiocarbon-date material recovered during fieldwork at Matterdale.[5] In 2013 wrote the book Social Change and Technology in Prehistoric Italy, based on her PhD thesis. It was published by the Accordia Research Institute, and a review by Bob Chapman for the Prehistoric Society described it as a "welcome [addition] to the literature on later Italian prehistory".[6] She is a course tutor in archaeology at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education,[7] and Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the University of Worcester.[8]
In 2022 she was appointed Chair of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society[9][10] and council member of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology.[11][12] The following year Loney took on the role of editor of Post-Medieval Archaeology, working initially with Cait Scott and then Lara Band, before working as sole editor from 2024.[13] She has also served as a member of the editorial board for the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society.[1]
