Partner 5: Department of Archaeology University of Cambridge, UK

Senior Lecturer Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, PhD. (mlss@cus.cam.ac.uk)

 

Key relevant qualifications

  1. Leading authority within the research field ‘Materiality and the construction of identity’ and substantial research experience of relevance to the project overall and specifically appropriate to the teamwork.

  2. Substantial contributions to Bronze Age studies with particular focus upon the links between identity and material culture in the formation of regional and group identities during the Bronze Age.

  3. Participation in numerous field projects in central and northern Europe.

  4. Participation in several highly successful research collaborations.

Department profile

The Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, is an extremely successful research institution. In the assessments conducted through the REA, the department has consistently been given the highest ranking. The university provides an excellent intellectual and scientific environment, with unsurpassed resources for research. It is a particular strength that the department has several research active scholars within the field of Later Prehistory, and has built a lively research group composed of graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, academic visitors and staff. This has given rise to important work on new approaches to the nature of material culture and its relationship to social organisation including variables such as gender, age, social differentiation and regionalism. There will also be a natural synergy with other ongoing projects, such as the Leverhulme funded project on ‘Changing beliefs’ and its focus on the body. There is thus a strong local intellectual environment for the proposed research.

 

Selected publications

Sørensen, M.L.S. 1997. Reading Dress: the construction of social categories and identities in Bronze Age Europe. Journal of European Archaeology 5.1. pp. 93-114.

Sørensen, M.L.S. 2000. Gender Archaeology. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Sørensen, M.L.S. Forthcoming with K. Rebay, Interpreting the body: burial practices at the Middle Bronze Age cemetery at Pitten, Archaeologia Austriaca.




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