Biography
Dr Jan Lewis is a Visiting Fellow attached to the Department of Humanities and Law, Faculty of Media and Communication, Bournemouth University. Her research examines the role of professional archaeologists as expert contributors to BBC radio, focusing on the period between the BBC's inception in 1922, up to the mid-1960s. She is interested particularly in the central role of radio in the public communication of archaeology, and the mutually-advantageous relationship between the developing professions of archaeology and radio production. The research also demonstrates the potential of radio history to illuminate the role of female archaeologists as public intellectuals, and to foreground their role in the social history of radio, as well as in archaeological historiography.
As an early career researcher, Jan is currently working on the publication of a paper and a monograph out of her PhD, and is also an active member of BU's History Research Group.
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