Katie Campbell

Katie is an archaeologist who works on the cities of medieval Central Asia and the Caucasus. She completed degrees in history and archaeology at the Universities of Exeter and York, and then worked on a variety of research and commercial archaeology projects across Central Asia and the Middle East, employed by organisations including the British Museum and the Universities of Oxford, London, Stanford and Copenhagen. 

Her doctorate, completed as a Nizami Ganjavi scholar at Oxford, examined archaeological evidence for the Mongol Conquest of the early 13th century and its impact on cities in Central Asia. 

While at King’s she will focus on cities over a longer period, from the 11th to the 15th century, charting changes in their fortunes against the backdrop of dramatic political, linguistic and cultural changes as Turkic and Mongol groups moved into the area.