Norman Hammond's research interests include the emergence and decline of complex societies, exchange, and the history of archaeology. Since 1968 he has worked in the Maya lowlands, with interdisciplinary projects at Lubaantun (1970-71), Nohmul (1973-86), Cuello (1975-93) and currently La Milpa (1992-), a large Classic period (AD 250-900) city in northwestern Belize. The La Milpa project has an international staff and is funded by the National Geographic Society and Boston University. Professor Hammond has also published fieldwork in North Africa, Afghanistan and Ecuador. He was on the faculty of Cambridge University (1967-75), Bradford University (1975-77) and Rutgers University (1977-88), and has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Jilin University (China), the Sorbonne and the University of Bonn; he has also held a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship and visiting fellowships at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Professor Hammond serves on the editorial boards of Ancient Mesoamerica and the Journal of Field Archaeology, and is an advisor to The Times of London (further biographical detail is available in Who's Who in America, The International Who's Who, Who's Who [UK]).