Dr Lambros Malafouris

Lambros Malafouris PhD (Cambridge, Darwin College) is Johnson Research and Teaching Fellow in Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture at Keble College, and the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford. He was Balzan Research Associate in Cognitive Archaeology at the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge between 2005-2008. His research interests lie broadly in the archaeology of mind and the philosophy of material culture. His recent publications include How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement (MIT Press, 2013), The Cognitive Life of Things: Recasting the boundaries of the mind (with Colin Renfrew, 2010), Material Agency: Towards a non- anthropocentric approach (with Carl Knappett, 2008) and The Sapient Mind: Archaeology meets neuroscience (with Colin Renfrew and Chris Frith, 2008).