{{Infobox academic | honorific_prefix = | name = Helen Wickstead | honorific_suffix = FSA | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | other_names = | occupation = Senior Lecturer and Course Director at Kingston School of Art | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = | nationality = | discipline = Archaeology | education = }} '''Helen Wickstead''' {{post-nominals|country=GB|FSA|MCIfA|FHEA}} is a British archaeologist, museologist, and is Senior Lecturer at Kingston University.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kingston.ac.uk/about/staff/dr-helen-wickstead-mcifa-fsa |title=Dr Helen Wickstead MCIfA FSA |publisher=Kingston University |accessdate=16 December 2025}}</ref>
==Biography== Wickstead has a PhD from University College London in 2007 with a thesis titled "Land division and identity in later prehistoric Dartmoor, south-west Britain: Translocating tenure".<ref>{{cite thesis |url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1445203/ |title=Land division and identity in later prehistoric Dartmoor, south-west Britain: Translocating tenure. |author1=Wickstead, H. |date=2007 |publisher=University College London}}</ref>
Her research includes history of archaeology, including biographical work on individuals including: Doris Emerson Chapman, on her work at Avebury; O. G. S. Crawford on his role as Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey;<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Skeates |first=Robin |date=2025 |title=Editorial |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0003598X25101452/type/journal_article |journal=Antiquity |language=en |volume=99 |issue=406 |pages=901–914 |doi=10.15184/aqy.2025.10145 |issn=0003-598X|url-access=subscription |doi-access=free }}</ref> and George Witt's 'Collection Illustrative of Phallic Worship', held at the British Museum's 'Secretum'.
In 2013, Helen Wickstead and Martyn Barber excavated long barrows at Damerham in Hampshire.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-06-11 |title=Site yields 6,000-year-old tombs |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8095537.stm |access-date=2025-12-16 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
On 18 November 2021 she was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/fellows/dr-helen-wickstead/ |title=Dr Helen Wickstead FSA |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London |accessdate=16 December 2025}}</ref>
==Select publications== *Wickstead, H. (2009). "The Uber Archaeologist: Art, GIS and the male gaze revisited: Art, GIS and the male gaze revisited". ''Journal of Social Archaeology'', 9(2), 249-271. {{doi|10.1177/1469605309104138}} *Wickstead, H. (2013) "Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology", in Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison, and Angela Piccini (eds), ''The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World''. {{DOI|10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199602001.013.012}} *Wickstead, H. (2020). "The phallus in the closet: collecting and classifying ancient sculpture", in Joseph-Lester, Jaspar, (ed.), ''Everything is sculpture''. Royal College of Art
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==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wYQwxtjH3M Helen Wickham: "The Phallus in the Closet: Boundary Objects and the Movements of Classification", TAG Presentation]
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