Harriet Crawford

Harriet Elizabeth Walston Crawford, Lady Swinnerton-Dyer (born 1937^[1]) is a British archaeologist. She is Reader Emerita at the UCL Institute of Archaeology and a senior fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Harriet Crawford Browne was born in 1937,^[1] the elder daughter of the judge Sir Patrick Browne^[2] and Evelyn Sophie Alexandra Walston.^{[citation needed]}

In 1983 she married the mathematician Peter Swinnerton-Dyer.^[3][4]

Ruth Whitehouse, the Institute of Archaeology's first woman professor, has commented that Crawford "definitely should have been" made professor there.^[5] After Crawford's retirement, the UCL Institute of Archaeology gave her the title of Reader Emerita,^[6] and more recently she has also been an Honorary Visiting Professor at the Institute.^[7]

• The architecture of Iraq in the third millennium B.C.. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1977
• (ed. 1979) Subterranean Britain: aspects of underground archaeology. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979.
• Sumer and the Sumerians. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• (ed. with Robert Killick and Jane Moon) The Dilmun Temple at Saar : Bahrain and its archaeological inheritance. London; New York: Kegan Paul International, 1997.
• Dilmun and its Gulf neighbours. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
• Regime change in the ancient Near East and Egypt : from Sargon of Agade to Saddam Hussein. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2007. Proceedings of the British Academy, 136.
• (ed. with Augusta McMahon) Preludes to urbanism : the late Chalcolithic of Mesopotamia. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2014. In honour of Joan Oates.
• The Sumerian World. London; New York: Routledge, 2013.
• Ur: city of the moon god. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.