Professor Joanna Brück FBA, MRIA, FSA, MIAI

Summary

Joanna Brück read Archaeology and Anthropology at University of Cambridge. She is Professor of Archaeology at University College Dublin and was previously Professor of Archaeology at University of Bristol. She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy,  editor of Archaeological Dialogues (an international journal published by Cambridge University Press) and has held roles as Vice President of the Prehistoric Society and board member of the Discovery Programme, an all-island centre for archaeological research in Ireland. Research grants as Principal Investigator include "Animals and Society in Bronze Age Europe" (European Research Council), “Archaeology of the Irish Revolution” (Irish Research Council) and "The social context of technology: non-ferrous metalworking in later prehistoric Britain and Ireland" (Leverhulme Trust).  Her main area of research is Bronze Age Britain and Ireland, particularly gender, kinship and personhood; the social role of material culture; and settlement and landscape. She has additional interests in historical archaeology, particularly how communities engage with the material residues of difficult histories, and how these might offer the potential for social repair in the present.