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Christine Finn
Visiting Fellow in 2015-2016. Information correct as of their fellowship year. Updates may have been made since but information could be outdated.

Christine Finn (b 1959, Jersey, Channel Islands) began her reporting career at 16, and worked as a print and TV journalist, the first Kent Journalist of the Year, before a Reuters Fellowship in 1990, researching the changing role of the media in revolutionary Eastern Europe. She returned to Oxford in 1992 as a mature undergraduate in Archaeology and Anthropology, and continued to a Doctorate on the link between archaeology and poetry (Past Poetic, Duckworth, 2004). She returned to journalism after reporting on the dotcom boom and bust (Artifacts: an archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley, 2001), and continues to write about retro technology. She is a contributor to the Sunday Times, Guardian, Wired, edge.org and BBC radio, including "From Our On Correspondent" and presents documentaries on R3, R4 and World Service. She has also developed a news and archaeology-driven art practice, exhibiting in America, Italy, Jersey and the UK, funded by Arts Council England. In 2003 she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Her biography of the archaeologist and writer, Jacquetta Hawkes, is forthcoming in summer, 2016.