Staff profile

I have been a Research Associate at Durham University for several years, publishing legacy sites, delivering teaching and undertaking research on a range of archaeological periods. Most recently (2019-2022) I was Deputy and Reviews Editor for the Journal Antiquity.

I am an experienced field archaeologist having worked for commercial units and undertaken research fieldwork. My research experience has been diverse spanning a broad range of periods from the Mesolithic to post-Medieval, and covering a vast geographical area from Atlantic Scotland to the Near East. I have published research on the archaeology and material culture of the Byzantine & Late Antique worlds, identity and phenomenology in Roman Britain, Landscape archaeology of Bronze Age and Iron Age Scotland and the archaeology of Post-Medieval architecture in the UK.

• Archaeology of Landscape
• Byzantine Archaeology
• Classical Archaeology
• Identity in Roman Britain
• Historiography and the Perception of Monumentality
• Late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age Scotland
• Manipulation of Light in Ecclesiastical Architecture
• Mesolithic in the North Atlantic
• Phenomenology and Experience of Architecture and Landscape
• The Geography of Ownership and Development of Archaeological Knowledge on Hadrian's Wall

• 2012: FSA Scot: Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
• 2000: SPBS: Executive Committee for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (2008-2011)

Chapter in book

• Multiculturalism on Hadrian’s Wall
  
  Nesbitt, C. (2014). Multiculturalism on Hadrian’s Wall. In The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697731.013.013
• Experiencing the light: Byzantine church window glass and aesthetics of worship.
  
  Nesbitt, C. (2013). Experiencing the light: Byzantine church window glass and aesthetics of worship. In New Light on Old Glass: Recent Research on Byzantine Mosaics and Glass.. British Museum Research Publication.
• Glass: Byzantine
  
  Nesbitt, C. (2013). Glass: Byzantine. In R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, & S. Huebner (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Ancient History. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah03101

Edited book

• Experiencing Byzantium: Papers from the Forty Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle University, April 2011.
  
  Nesbitt, C., & Jackson, M. (Eds.). (2013). Experiencing Byzantium: Papers from the Forty Fourth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Newcastle University, April 2011. Ashgate Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315581507

Journal Article

• The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands
  
  Church, M. J., Arge, S. V., Edwards, K. J., Ascough, P. L., Bond, J. M., Cook, G. T., Dockrill, S. J., Dugmore, A. J., McGovern, T. H., Nesbitt, C., & Simpson, I. A. (2013). The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 77, 228-232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.011
• Small-scale evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland
  
  Nesbitt, C., Church, M., Gilmour, S., & Burgess, C. (2013). Small-scale evaluation of a Post-Medieval Blackhouse at Bereiro, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland. Journal of the North Atlantic, 22, 1-19.
• A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles
  
  Church, M. J., Nesbitt, C., & Gilmour, S. M. D. (2013). A special place in the saltings? Survey and excavation of an Iron Age estuarine islet at An Dunan, Lewis, Western Isles. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 143, 157-226.
• Shaping the Sacred: Light and the Experience of Worship in Middle Byzantine Churches
  
  Nesbitt, C. (2012). Shaping the Sacred: Light and the Experience of Worship in Middle Byzantine Churches. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 36(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.1179/0307013112z.0000000009
• Life of an Ancient Monument: Hadrian's Wall in History
  
  Hingley, R., Witcher, R., & Nesbitt, C. (2012). Life of an Ancient Monument: Hadrian’s Wall in History. Antiquity, 86(333), 760-771. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00047906
• Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig
  
  Church, M., Bishop, R., Blake, E., Nesbitt, C., Perri, A., Piper, S., Rowley-Conwy, P., Snape-Kennedy, L., & Walker, J. (2012). Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland., 13.
• Temple Bay, Harris
  
  Church, M., Bishop, R., Blake, E., Nesbitt, C., Perri, A., Piper, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2012). Temple Bay, Harris. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland., 13.
• Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig
  
  Church, M., Bishop, R., Blake, E., Nesbitt, C., Perri, A., Piper, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2011). Tràigh na Beirigh, Uig. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland., 12, 194-195.
• Domestic, industrial, (en)closed? Survey and excavation of a Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age promontory enclosure at Gob Eirer, Lewis, Western Isles.
  
  Nesbitt, C., Church, M., & Gilmour, S. M. D. (2011). Domestic, industrial, (en)closed? Survey and excavation of a Late Bronze Age / Early Iron Age promontory enclosure at Gob Eirer, Lewis, Western Isles. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 141, 31-74.
• Temple Bay, Harris
  
  Church, M., Bishop, R., Blake, E., Nesbitt, C., Perri, A., Piper, S., & Rowley-Conwy, P. (2011). Temple Bay, Harris. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland., 12.
• Hadrian’s Wall: Embodied Archaeologies of the Linear Monument.
  
  Nesbitt, C., & Tolia-Kelly, D. (2009). Hadrian’s Wall: Embodied Archaeologies of the Linear Monument. Journal of Social Archaeology, 9(3), 368-390.
• A Wall for all times
  
  Hingley, R., & Nesbitt, C. (2008). A Wall for all times. British Archaeology, September/October 2008, 44-49.

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• An Archaeology of Race (Exhibition Catalogue)
  
  Tolia-Kelly, D., & Nesbitt, C. (2009, July 19). An Archaeology of Race (Exhibition Catalogue).
• An Archaeology of Race. Exploring the Northern Frontier in Roman Britain
  
  Tolia-Kelly, D. P., & Nesbitt, C. (2009). An Archaeology of Race. Exploring the Northern Frontier in Roman Britain.

Report

• Archaeological investigations at Northton, Harris, Western Isles, 2011. Data Structure Report
  
  Bishop, R., Church, M., & Nesbitt, C. (2012). Archaeological investigations at Northton, Harris, Western Isles, 2011. Data Structure Report. National Science Foundation (US), Hunter Trust, Historic Scotland, Durham University.
• Data Structure Report of Small-scale sampling at Mealasta, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland
  
  Nesbitt, C., Church, M., & Gilmour, S. (2011). Data Structure Report of Small-scale sampling at Mealasta, Lewis, Western Isles of Scotland.
• Data Structure Report of Small-Scale Sampling of the Mesolithic Site at Bàgh an Teampaill, Toe Head Peninsula, Northton, Harris, 2011
  
  Blake, E., Church, M., & Nesbitt, C. (2011). Data Structure Report of Small-Scale Sampling of the Mesolithic Site at Bàgh an Teampaill, Toe Head Peninsula, Northton, Harris, 2011.
• Data Structure Report of Small-Scale Sampling of a Mesolithic Shell Midden at Tràigh na Beirigh, Cnip, Lewis, 2011
  
  Blake, E., Church, M., & Nesbitt, C. (2011). Data Structure Report of Small-Scale Sampling of a Mesolithic Shell Midden at Tràigh na Beirigh, Cnip, Lewis, 2011.