Personal

I gained my AA from American River College (Sacramento California), BA from University California, Santa Babara, and PhD from University of Cambridge, St. John’s College. 

Research

Enculturating environments (Landscape archaeology, rock-art, archaeology of natural places, material culture).
Archaeology of the modern world (Historical archaeology, Archaeology of Colonialism, Contemporary archaeology,
Historiography of Archaeology).
Spatial and temporal approaches to archaeology (Geographic Information Systems, the Archaeology of Time).
Regional archaeological research (California, Britain, India, Spain).

Module Contributions

In addition to contributing to a range of our modules, I am module coordinator for:
FZ1201The Archaeology of Britain
FZ 2205 Roman and Post-Roman Britain
FZ 3204 Life and Death in Medieval Britain.
FZ 3205 Archaeology of the Modern World

Featured Publications

Robinson, DW.  2007. Taking the Bight Out of Complexity: Elaborating South-Central California Interior Landscapes.  In S. Kohrning and S. Wynne-Jones (eds), Socialising Complexity: Structure, Integration, and Power, 183-204.  Oxbow: Oxford.

Pollard, J. & Robinson, DW. 2007. A return to Woodhenge: the results and implications of the 2006 excavations. In M. Larsson & M. Parker Pearson (eds), From Stonehenge to the Baltic: living with cultural diversity in the third millennium BC. Oxford: BAR.

Boivin, NL, A Brumm, H. Lewis & DW Robinson. 2007. The archaeology of sound in south India.  Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (PDFdocument).

Robinson, DW.  2004.  The Mirror of the Sun: Surface, Mineral Applications, and Interface in California Rock Art, pp 91-106.  In N. Boivin and M-A. Owoc (eds), Soils, Stones and Symbols: archaeological and anthropological perspectives on the mineral world.  University College London Press: London (PDF document).

Robinson, DW. 2004.  Tierra Incognita: rock art, landscape biography, and archaeological blind-spots – a case study from South-Central California. American Indian Rock Art 30, 43-56. (PDF document)

Robinson, DW.  2004.  A feast of reason and a flow of soul: the archaeological antiquarianism of Sir Richard Colt Hoare.  Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 96,111-28.

Orengo, H. A. and Robinson, DW.  In press.  Contemporary engagements within corridors of the past: temporality and the urban space of St. Rock Street, Barcelona.  Journal of Material Culture.