Editing Ian Hodder (section)

==Academic career==
He was a lecturer at the [[University of Leeds]] from 1974 to 1977.<ref name="WW 2020" /> He then returned to the [[University of Cambridge]], where he was an assistant lecturer (1977 to 1981) and then lecturer (1981 to 1990) in archaeology.<ref name="Hodder CV" /> From 1990 to 2000, he was director of the [[Cambridge Archaeological Unit]] and a [[Fellow (Oxbridge)|Fellow]] of [[Darwin College, Cambridge]].<ref name="WW 2020" /> The university appointed him [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]] in Prehistory in 1990 and Professor of Archaeology in 1996.<ref name="Hodder CV" />

In 1999, Hodder moved to [[Stanford University]] in the United States. He became Dunlevie Family Professor in 2002.<ref name="Hodder CV"/>

From 1993 - 2018, Hodder and an international team of archaeologists carried out new research and excavation of the 9,000-year-old [[Neolithic]] site of [[Çatalhöyük]] in central [[Anatolia]] (modern Turkey). He was the Director of the [[Çatalhöyük#Archaeology|Çatalhöyük Archaeological Project]] which aimed to conserve the site, put it into context, and present it to the public. He endeavoured to explore the effects of non-[[positivism|positivistic]] methods in archaeology, which included providing each excavator with the opportunity to record his or her own individual interpretation of the site. In 2012 he dismissed most of the team, replacing them with other excavators and specialists, citing a need for a "shake up."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.science.org/content/article/hodder-cleans-house-famed-atalh-y-k-dig | title=Hodder Cleans House at Famed Çatalhöyük Dig }}</ref> His permit was completed in 2018 when handed over the site to a Turkish team.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.catalhoyuk.com/project/history | title=History of the Excavations | date=30 October 2015 }}</ref>

He was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA) in 1996.<ref name="FBA">{{cite web |title=Professor Ian Hodder FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/ian-hodder-FBA/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=26 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In the [[2019 Queen's Birthday Honours]] he was appointed [[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]] (CMG) for services to archaeology and UK/Turkey relations.<ref name="LG 62666">{{London Gazette |issue= 62666 |date= 8 June 2019 |pages= B3-B4 |supp= y }}</ref>