Roberta Lynn Gilchrist, FSA, FBA (born 28 June 1965) is a Canadian-born archaeologist and academic specialising in the medieval period, whose career has been spent in the United Kingdom.
[1] Her doctoral thesis was titled "The archaeology of female piety: gender, ideology and material culture in later medieval England (c.
[3] Gilchrist began her academic career in 1990, when she became a lecturer at University of East Anglia.
[9] Also in 2008, she 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.
[10][11] In February 2016, Gilchrist won the "Archaeologist of the Year" award in the Current Archaeology Awards,[12] which are voted for by the public, and recognise people who have made outstanding contributions to archaeology.