Support for my research has come from a variety of sources. Principally, of course, I could not have done anything without the universities with which I have been closely connected, as student, faculty, affiliate - Cambridge (1988-1991), Paris 1 (Sorbonne) (1992), Wales Lampeter (1992-1998), Gothenburg (from 1993) and Stanford (from 1999).

Peterhouse, Cambridge and Stanford particularly have been generous with support for my personal research; at Peterhouse I held a British Academy Fellowship; at Stanford I hold the Omar and Althea Hoskins Chair in Archaeology. In Paris I held a Fellowship at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.

My personal research fund at Stanford supports my Metamedia Lab and my current work in the Roman borders of England/Scotland - [Borderlands].

Here are the bigger sources of support for the operations and projects for which I am a Principal Investigator.

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Stanford Humanities Lab - [link]. I have directed SHL with Jeffrey Schnapp and Henry Lowood since 2005. Our annual budget from within Stanford (School of Humanities and Sciences) is about $300k - devoted to incubating projects within the new humanities. Before I joined as Director, SHL suported my Traumwerk project with $25k - 2003-2005.

Presence - "Performing presence: from the live to the simulated". Nick Kaye and Gabriella Giannachi in Exeter and Mel Slater at University College London are my fellow PIs. The project has received $500k funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council in the UK (running to 2009). See below for funding for related projects.

Life squared - the future of the museum explored as we revisit with artist Lynn Hershman a hotel room in 1972, site of an installation of hers, and build an archival experience in a virtual world - [link] - part of the Presence Project and funded by the Langlois Foundation - June 2006 - July 2007 - $50k - co PIs are Lynn Hershman and Henry Lowood.

Critical Studies in New Media - a Mellon funded workshop sponsored by Stanford Humanities Center. I have run research workshops through Stanford Humanities Center since I arrived at Stanford in 1999. Annual funding runs at about $7.5k. This year, like last, I am working with Fred Turner (Professor, Communications) under the topic of the "Politics of presence", and we have received another $8k for an experiment in collaborative research and fused media to run in May 2007.

Co-creating cultural heritage - enabling communities build their own history and heritage using participatory software - funded by the Wallenberg Global Learning Network - from September 2006. My fellow PI is Kristian Kristiansen in Gothenburg. $50k seed funding with a conditional extension of another $300k for 2007/2008.

Burtynsky at Stanford and http://burtynsky.stanford.edu - an interactive web site accompanying the exhibition at Stanford in the summer of 2005 of the work of this great photographer - currently archived, though accessible. $5k from the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford.

Behind the locked door - an exploration of the storerooms of Stanford's Cantor Arts Center - 2007. Funding from the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford.

Archaeology plus engineering, the environment, the fine arts, media, law, international relations ... - a talk-show series exploring archaeology's unique perspective on matters of contemporary common concern - sponsored by Stanford's Aurora Forum - running through 2007.

DaimlerChrysler 2015 when archaeology met car design - an ethnography-oriented foresight model of material culture in the vehicle interior of 2015 - June 2005 - February 2006. $60k funding from DCX.

Conversations through archaeology - an ongoing series of discussions hosted by me and Bill Rathje in Stanford Archaeology Center, Various sources of funding, including the Office of the Deans, School of Humanities and Sciences.

Brith Gof - a theatre company. I became a Company Director in 1997, wth the aim of facilitating links with the academy. Art Directors Mike Pearson and Cliff McLucas oversaw a fabuous series of experimental site specific works in old and new media. I shared full financial liability for the company and its turnover which peaked at about $240k in 1999. Mike and I wrote Theatre/Archaeology together. Cliff and I developed and directed The Three Landscapes Project.

The Three Landscapes Project - Stanford 2000 - when Cliff McLucas Brith Gof, Dorian Llywelyn (theologian) and Michael Shanks home explored the nature of place and landscape in Wales, California and Sicily. Stanford Humanities Center provided four fellowships (!) (two senior and two junior) for this project. Stanford's Dean of Research contributed $10k for logistical support. My Metamedia Lab provided equipment and facilities.

Sicily - Monte Polizzo - excavating a hilltop site in the west of Sicily - an arrested fieldwork project 1998-2000. The Tressider and Hoskins Funds of Stanford's Department of Classics supplied about $70k support for the season's work in the field in 1999.

The early Greek city state - researching the design of the polis - 1988-1999. Support for this, my doctoral research, came from the British Academy and Peterhouse, Cambridge - about $10k. Canon UK contributed photo equipment.