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Schlanger, Nathan
schlanger1@gmail.com
Nathan Schlanger (PhD. Cambridge, 1995). My research and teaching activities have developed along three overlapping directions: (1) Technology and material culture studies in archaeology and anthropology, (2) History of archaeology, (3) Archaeological heritage management, politics and policies.
Regarding the History of archaeology, I have been interested in the material, social and ideological contexts of the production and use of knowledge about the prehistoric past. One focus is on the emergence and development of Stone Age studies in 19th century Europe. Some recent work has concerned the influence of antiquarian and specifically numismatic practices on stone artefact studies, and questions of progress, development and seriality in material culture before and after Darwin. I have also begun to draw together some preliminary leads regarding the political economy of archaeological practice, including the relations between manual and intellectual labour in the history of the discipline. Another research strand has concerned the century long history of archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa as a distinctive illustration of national mobilisation in colonial and post-colonial contexts. These research have notably included the ‘rediscovery’ of an archaeological tradition in Afrikaans, as well as terminological debates between colonies and metropole.
Much of this research has been conducted in the framework of the EC funded AREA network – Archives of European Archaeology (1999- 2008), where scholars have been drawing on archival as well as published sources to gain new understanding on the making of archaeology. Activities of the AREA network resulted among others in the special section of Antiquity in 2002, the volumes Archives, Ancestors, Practices (ed. with J. Nordbladh, 2008), The Making of European Archaeology (travelling exhibition, 2008) and Sites of Memory, Between Scientific Research and Collective Representations (ed. with J. Marikova-Kubkova, S. Lévin 2008).
Sebire, Heather
Heather dot sebire at english-heritage dot org dot uk
English Heritage
Heather is the Historic Property Curator with English Heritage in the west of England A Classics graduate from London University she worked in archaeology in London and Wessex before moving to Guernsey. During her career at Guernsey Museum she became aware of the importance of the large archive of the Lukis family that was in the care of the museum. She undertook doctoral research on the Lukis family through the archive the which was completed in 2004. This was followed by research to place Lukis in an international context which included collaborative research with European colleagues on the History of Archaeology in the nineteenth century. She has published a number of books and articles about the Lukis Family.
Seymour, Michael
m.seymour@ucl.ac.uk
Research interests in the history and politics of archaeology in the Middle East, particularly Iraq. My work has focused on Babylon, examining both the history of exploration and excavation at the site itself and the city’s very rich history of representation in art and literature. I was co-curator of the recent British Museum exhibition ‘Babylon: Myth and Reality,’ and am currently preparing a monograph based on my doctoral thesis ‘The Idea of Babylon: Archaeology and Representation in Mesopotamia.’
Sheppard, Kathleen L.
Department of History and Social Science
Missouri University of Science and Technology
sheppardka at mst dot edu
Having successfully completed my dissertation at the University of Oklahoma in May 2010, I am now working on revising the project into a book. It will be a biography of Margaret Murray, who worked in the Egyptology department at UCL over the course of almost 70 years. She was a student, researcher, teacher and administrator. Her scientific biography deals with issues of women in science, the professionalization of the social sciences in the early 20th century, and interactions between the public and the professional in this period. My interests are in the history of British Egyptology in the early 20th century, especially the women archaeologists and their underrepresented lives, careers, and roles in the masculine environment of early 20th century science.
Sijnesael, Wendy
haxws at bristol dot ac dot uk
University of Bristol
I am in the third year of my PhD in History of Art (co-supervised Classics and Ancient History). The reception of antiquity has always been my main research interest and the Dutch-born Victorian painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) constitutes a versatile case-study. The working title for my thesis is: ‘Between Materiality and Imagination: Alma-Tadema’s Use of Antiquities’ and the aim of this project is to show the impact of the source material available to the artist on the way artefacts – both ancient and modern – materialise in his paintings, literally bringing out his resourcefulness.
Smith, Pamela Jane
Pjs1011 at cam dot ac dot uk
University of Cambridge
Pamela founded the immensely popular “Personal Histories Project” (http://www.personal-histories.co.uk) in 2006 and HARN in 2008 (http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/smith2/index.html). Previous to that, since the early 1990s, she has specialised in gendered interpretations and cultural history of twentieth-century British archaeology as well as oral history of British and North American archaeology. She is especially interested in geography-of-knowledge approaches, the processes of institutionalisation of academic knowledge, interconnections between religious beliefs, archaeology and empire and tea-rooms. You can read some of her Garrod work on http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~pjs1011/Pams.html. If you are interested in Pamela’s oral-history panels, please check the University of Cambridge’s SMS sites http://sms.cam.ac.uk/75446 or facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Personal-Histories-Project/200039440031381?ref=ts&sk=wall. Personal Histories films are also loaded on iTunesU.
Snead, James
james.snead@csun.edu
I have been working on the history of archaeology since the early 1990s. My book Ruins and Rivals: The Making of Southwest Archaeology explores the complex social, political, and institutional dynamics of the study of antiquity in the American Southwest between 1890 and 1920. Ongoing research emphasizes the construction of communities of interest and the distinctive conditions under which the archaeological study of the “radical other” in North America was used in the construction of local and regional identities. This will be examined in detail in a work in progress, entitled Encountering Antiquity: The Public and the Past in 19th century America.
Stevenson, Alice
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University
alice.stevenson@prm.ox.ac.uk
Alice Stevenson is a Researcher in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. After studying archaeology and anthropology as an undergraduate, and Museum Studies for a masters, I specialised in the archaeology of Predynastic Egypt, working primarily with unpublished excavation reports and museum collections for my doctorate and subsequent publications. Most recently this has included studying the unpublished field notes of Britain’s contribution to the UNESCO rescue campaigns in Nubia during the early 1960s. I have been working at the Pitt Rivers Museum since 2009 and it is here that I became interested in the construction of prehistory in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the history of museum collections. The Pitt Rivers Museum has been a departure point for a number of my recent research papers, including those on South African and Japanese prehistory, histories of experimental archaeology and the disciplinary relationships of archaeology, anthropology and Egyptology. Recently I have been researching the relationship and influence of A.H.L.F. Pitt-Rivers and Flinders Petrie, and I am currently archiving the George Rolleston manuscript collection housed at the Ashmolean Museum. Future projects this year (2012) are to include a short study of the collecting practices of the anthropologist Winfred Blackman in Egypt in the late 1920s and 1930s and a review of the distribution of artefacts to museums following their excavation in Egypt between 1880 and 1922.
Sutton, Catherine
cathies at yorku dot ca
York University
I am writing an historical ethnography of the culture of archaeological interests in Simcoe County, Ontario Canada between 1820 and 1900. Formerly the Wendat/Huron homelands, the discovery of large ossuaries in the area by colonial settlers roused the curiosity of British military men posted in the region, surveyors, Jesuit antiquarians, local collectors and emerging professional archaeologists. I am bringing together the unpublished maps, artifact drawings, prints, photographs and lantern slides produced by these diverse archaeological surveys, and considering the ways their visualizations contributed to early Canadian nation building efforts to represent the past.
Sveshnikova, Olga
svesholik at gmail dot com
Omsk F.M. Dostoevsky State University
presently – Research Center for East European Studies, University of Bremen
Specialist in the history of Soviet and post-Soviet archaeology; studies the relationship between archaeology and society. PhD Thesis A Historical Interpretation of the Archaeological Record in the Soviet Archaeology (late 1920’s – 1950’s) (2006). Currently studies the everyday life of archaeological expeditions and the phenomenon of unskilled participants in archaeological expeditions (amateurs and hired workers). Actively uses the methods of oral history and visual anthropology.
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Tantaleán, Henry
henrytantalean@yahoo.es
Universidad San Marcos en Lima
and Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos
Henry is currently researching the History of Peruvianarchaeology and editing a book based on a Symposia co-ordinated by himself over the last year. He received his Ph.D four years ago at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Tattersall, Richard
tattersalls at btconnect dot com
Richard’s MA dissertation, at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, focused on the interwar work of famed ‘barrow hunter’ L.V. Grinsell, with particular reference to the popularisation of British field archaeology and its connections with the ‘outdoors movement’. Richard is now researching a number of topics relating to British field archaeology from the late Victorian era to the mid-20th century, with an emphasis on its connections with the wider social world, the importance of place and the material culture in which it was grounded. He is well acquainted with the art and literature of the era and therefore adds broader cultural perspectives to the historical interpretation of archaeological practice.
Thornton, Amara
tcrnaat at ucl dot ac dot uk
University College London, Institute of Archaeology
My doctoral thesis, entitled British archaeologists, social networks and the emergence of a profession: the social history of British archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East 1870-1939 explored themes in the history of archaeology through the lives and social networks of five British archaeologists: George Horsfield, Agnes Conway Horsfield, John Crowfoot, Grace Mary “Molly” Crowfoot, and John Garstang. The themes include education and training, encompassing a history of archaeology at university level and the foundation of the British Schools at Athens and Rome and the British Schools of Archaeology in Egypt and Jerusalem; the role of architects in archaeology and antiquities services in Egypt, Sudan, Palestine and Transjordan; the development of museum and university collections and annual archaeological exhibitions in the UK; and funding, sponsorship and partronage in archaeology through the history of funds, learned societies and excavation committees or sponsors. Through all these themes, I examined how networks underpin archaeological practice highlighting the “archaeological community” in its widest sense: the excavators, workers, architects, artists, photographers, government officials, military officers, funders, politicians, publicisers – men and women who helped to promote and sustain archaeology throughout this period.
Trigg, Jonathan
Jrtrigg at liverpool dot ac dot uk
Liverpool University
My history of archaeology interests are in antiquarian activity in the British Isles and the history of archaeology in British universities. I am also currently involved in research into the Fetternear Estate, the owners of which had antiquarian interests and who, in the nineteenth century, carried out an archaeological excavation in the grounds. They used the results of this excavation to ‘re-build’ the medieval structures in the lawns in front of the mansion as garden features. I am also currently researching the 16th C antiquarian/physician Dr Robert Toope and am working on a history of the study of prehistory at the University of Liverpool with a particular focus on the work of W.J. Varley.
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Van Looveren, Jonas
jonas.vanlooveren@artesis.be
I’m a PhD student in Conservation of Monuments and Sites at the University of Antwerp and the Artesis University College (Belgium). My research focuses on the history of archaeological heritage management in Belgium and more specifically the genesis of the archaeology legislation (Belgium was the last country in Europe that installed laws that regulate archaeological research and protect archaeological heritage). In my research I use interviews and archival material of people involved in the legislative process and archaeology policy.
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Wallace, Colin
C.R.Wallace at Liverpool dot ac dot uk
University of Liverpool, School of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology
Colin Wallace is interested in writing and using the History of Archaeology, working on a PhD (at the University of Liverpool) in the history of Romano-British archaeology and also reading & writing about North British archaeological collecting lateC18/earlyC19, about the ‘Wheeler Circus’ and about British archaeologists in Spain before the Civil War.
Walz, Jonathan R.
jwalz at rollins dot edu
Rollins University
I study African historical experience emphasizing East Africa/Tanzania and the western Indian Ocean. Topics: historical anthropology, political economy, social theories of time, oral traditions, material substitution, and miniatures. Relevant publication: “An Interview with Merrick Posnansky,” The African Archaeological Review 27(3):177-210. Professor Posnansky made profound contributions to historical and public archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. He continues to influence museums and heritage studies in Africa and elsewhere.
Werner, William Joseph
wjwerner@maxwell.syr.edu
Syracuse University (USA)
I am a PhD candidate in anthropology at Syracuse University (USA), where my general research interests revolve around the historical archaeology of Mexico and the southeastern United States. I am particularly interested in how plantation and estate landscapes fostered the nineteenth-century nascence of professional archaeology in the German and U.S. traditions. My dissertation incorporates archival research, archaeological field and lab analyses, and the study of museum collections to examine the relationships between ethnological perception and scientific collecting at a rural market hosted weekly by a German-operated sugar cane and coffee estate in nineteenth-century Veracruz, Mexico.
Westwood, Benjamin
b.e.westwood@durham.ac.uk
Durham University
My research is focused around the critical study of the contrasting histories of cultural heritage management, archaeological investigation and the institutionalisation of the past in Libya between 1943 to 1951. Within the nine year period under examination this area of North African was a major theatre of conflict, passing from Italian, to British and French colonial oversight, and later to independence with the creation of the nation state of Libya through the intervention of the United Nations. Whilst Northern Libya was, at least temporarily, a quasi colony of the British Empire (characterised as the ‘British Military Administration of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica’), archaeological practitioners were focused upon the co-option and development of previous colonially driven research frameworks to produce new forms of hybridised Eurocentricism in Libyan archaeological practices.
This was a period which saw real changes in the ways cultural heritage was conceptualised and treated,(issues that would eventually find expression in the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, 1954), contextualised by the conflict of World War II and the ensuing post-war settlements and involving some of archaeology’s contemporary celebrities: Leonard Woolley, Mortimer Wheeler to name but a few.
Whitley, James
whitleya@cardiff.ac.uk
University of Cardiff
James Whitley has a long-standing, well-informed interest in the history of archaeological thought; he is focusing his research on “the relationship between the development of ideas and institutions, and traditions of investigation outside of Anglophone prehistory and American ‘anthropological’ archaeology.” James has co-taught the History of Archaeological Thought since he arrived in Cardiff in 1990 and has several relevant recent publications including:
Forthcoming. ‘The research culture of the British School at Athens, 1900-1920: The case for ethnological antiquarianism’ In D. Shankland and G. Salmeri (eds), The Foreign Schools. (The British Academy) Originally presented at TAG in 2008
2006. ‘The Minoans: A Welsh Invention? A View from East Crete’, in Y. Hamilakis and N. Momigliano (eds), Archaeology and European Modernity: Producing and Consuming the ‘Minoans’, 55-67. (Creta Antica 7). Padua: Bottega D’Erasmo.
2004. ‘Classical archaeology and British identity: the role of the British School at Athens,’ Pharos: Journal of the Netherlands Institute in Athens XI [2003]: 95-111.
Wickstead, Helen
H dot Wickstead at Kingston dot ac dot uk
Kingston University
Dr Helen Wickstead MIfA lectures in Faculty of Science at Kingston University, London. She is Director of ‘art+archaeology’ a research initiative creating visual art residencies and exhibitions that investigate visual practices in archaeology. She is co-author (with Martyn Barber) of a series of journal articles and conference papers exploring the history of aerial vision and mapping from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries. She is currently writing an international history of Archaeological Geophysics which traces its affinities beyond the conventional boundaries of archaeology, placing its activities within the wider context of Cold War science.
Wilkes, Elizabeth </strong
elizabethjane.wilkes@gmail.com
My PhD is a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the British Museum and the University of Southampton entitled: Polished Axes: Object Biographies and the Writing of World Prehistories. I am primarily studying the historiography of the British Museum’s collection of polished axes. I am studying both archaeological and ethnographic polished axes from around the world, though the primary areas of study are currently focused upon Europe, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, China and Japan. I am focused upon the studying the networks created by the collection of polished axes and my research will be centred around object biographies of individual artefacts that illustrate these networks.
Wintjes, Justine
justine dot wintjes at gmail dot com
University of the Witwatersrand
With degrees in art and archaeology, I have long been interested in creating a project that is at the interface of these two disciplines. So I became interested in the history of archaeology, in particular the role of visuality and illustration in the formation of the discipline. I am currently working on my doctoral thesis about the history of rock artrecording in the Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains of southern Africa, an area rich in both hunter-gatherer rock paintings and research on hunter-gatherer rock paintings. Over the last century and a half, documents, images and actual paintings have been carried away from the sites and placed into museum collections and archives, organising the art into an archive. I seek to return the items of the archive to their original location in the landscape, to determine the position of the various records and to reconfigure the ‘lost’ originals – to reorganise the archive according to the original art.
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Young, Charlotte
cay201@exeter.ac.uk
University of Exeter
I am a PhD student in Classics at the University of Exeter. My project is on the reception of the ancient world in archaeological photography in the twentieth century, using theories of viewing, photographic theory, art theory and contextual hermeneutics.
