Dan Hicks FSA, MCIfA (born 1972) is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. Dan works on the material and visual culture of the human past, up to and including the modern, colonial, contemporary and digital world, and on the history of Archaeology, Anthropology Art, and Architecture. His curatorial work has ranged widely, and most recently included the co-curated exhibition and book Lande: the Calais “Jungle” and Beyond in 2019.
Dan has published eight authored and edited books, and has written articles, essays and op-eds for a variety of journals, magazines and newspapers, for a wide range of audiences: from the Times Literary Supplement to Apollo Magazine, Art Review, Artnet, The Guardian, The Telegraph, and The Independent. Dan has regularly appeared on Radio and TV, including Radio 4’s In Our Time, Today Programme, Making History, and many radio and TV documentaries and news broadcasts. He lives in Oxford.
Prof Hicks collaborates with Prof Savoy in The Restitution of Knowledge. Artefacts as archives in the (post)colonial museum
Prof Hicks collaborates with Prof Rassool in Action for Restitution to Africa