Dr Dominic Pollard completed his BA in Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Oxford, before moving to University College London to undertake an MA in Mediterranean Archaeology. Dominic stayed at UCL for his doctoral studies, receiving his PhD in 2022. From 2022-2024, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. In 2024, he returned to the UK to join the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge, as a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow.

Dominic’s research to date has focussed on the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean, particularly the island of Crete. In his work, he makes particular use of digitised quantitative and spatial datasets to investigate aspects of settlement patterning, demography, agricultural economy, interregional connections, and burial practices. Dominic is particularly interested in the landscape context of economic and societal trajectories in the Mediterranean region. In his role as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the McDonald Institute, he is investigating the development of urban communities in the Iron Age Mediterranean, specifically the southern Aegean, Etruria and Sicily.