Co-investigator for Zimbabwe
Innocent is Professor in Archaeology and Deputy Dean for Research and Postgraduate Education in the Faculty of Humanities, at the University of Pretoria. His research centres on the development of complex societies in Southern Africa since 1000 AD. He is currently conducting geoarchaeological investigations at Great Zimbabwe to document the ancient city’s water resources, and to assess the role of water in socio-political formation. In 2017, he was appointed ambassador for the journal Antiquity: A Review of World Archaeology, to assist with the mentoring of young scholars in Africa. He is also the co-editor of the volume Water and Society from Ancient Times to the Present: Resilience, Decline, and Revival. He is a member of the World Archaeological Congress (WAC), the Integrated History and future of People on Earth (IHOPE), the Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) and serves on the advisory board of Anthropocene Review. In 2020, he was admitted into the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and the Royal Society of South Africa (RSSAf). During the Easter Term of 2023-2024, he was the Dunbarney Visiting Fellow at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.