Archaeological scientist
Janet Montgomery FBA (born 1960) is a British archaeological scientist and academic. Having studied at the University of Bradford, she is now Professor of Bioarchaeology at Durham University. She specialises in the study of diet and migration via tooth enamel biomineralization and isotope analysis.
Biography.
Montgomery graduated from the University of Bradford in 1996 with a BSc in Archaeological Science. Janet was awarded a PhD in 2002. Her thesis was the first application of radiogenic lead and strontium isotope analysis to human remains from archaeological sites in Britain, in order to investigate diet and mobility.
From 2003 to 2007, Montgomery was a NERC postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bradford. She was then a lecturer in archaeological science from 2007 to 2010. She then joined the University of Durham.
Montgomery's work ranges across archaeological periods, and methodological development. Montgomery collaborates with Jane Evans to undertake the environmental mapping of biosphere strontium in Britain. Montgomery has received grants from NERC, AHRC, ESRF, Wellcome Trust, British Academy, Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Leverhulme Trust.
In 2010, Montgomery won the Society for Medieval Archaeology's Martyn Jope Award for "the best novel interpretation, application of analytical method or presentation of new findings" published in that year's volume of "Medieval Archaeology" along with co-authors Christopher Knüsel, Catherine M. Batt, Gordon Cook, Carol Palmer, Gundula Müldner, Alan R. Ogden, Ben Stern, John Todd, and Andrew S Wilson.
She is a member of the Academic Awards Committee of the Executive of the British Federation of Women Graduates. In July 2024, she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
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