Joanna Bruck
Joanna Bruck is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bristol, who is a specialist on Bronze Age Britain.
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Thesis | The early-middle bronze age transition in Wessex, Sussex and the Thames Valley |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Bristol |
Education
She studied for a BA and PhD at the University of Cambridge.[1] Her thesis, awarded in 1997, was titled "The early-middle bronze age transition in Wessex, Sussex and the Thames Valley",[2] supervised by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen.[3]
Career
Bruck was a research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge,[1] after which she was appointed as a Lecturer at University College Dublin.[1]
Her research themes have included the body and personhood, landscape, domestic architecture, material culture and deposition.[4] More recent work has included nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland, including the 1916 Rising and the archaeology of internment.[5]
She has edited several volumes, including Making Places in the Prehistoric World: Themes in Settlement Archaeology (1999) and Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation (2002).
She has received research funding form the British Academy.[1] In 1999 she co-established the Bronze Age Forum with Stuart Needham.[6] She was previously editor of PAST, the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society.[1] Bruck is on the editorial board of Archaeological Dialogues[7] and vice president of the Prehistoric Society.[8]
Selected publications
Books
Bruck, J. 2019. Personifying Prehistory. Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Oxford: OUP.
Edited volumes
Bruck, J. (ed.) 2002. Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation. Oxford: Oxbow.
Articles
Brück, J. 1995. A place for the dead: the role of human remains in Late Bronze Age Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 61
Brück, J. 1999. Ritual and rationality: some problems of interpretation in European archaeology. European Journal of Archaeology 2.3: 313-344.
Brück, J. 2001. Monuments, power and personhood in the British Neolithic. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7.4: 649-667.
Brück, J. 2004. Material metaphors: the relational construction of identity in Early Bronze Age burials in Ireland and Britain. Journal of Social Archaeology 4.3: 307-333.
Brück, J. 2005. Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory. Archaeological Dialogues 12(1), 45-72.
References
- Brück, Joanna (2006). "Death, exchange and reproduction in the British Bronze Age". European Journal of Archaeology. 9 (1): 73–101. doi:10.1177/1461957107077707. ISSN 1461-9571.
- Bruck, Joanna Mary (1998). The early-middle bronze age transition in Wessex, Sussex and the Thames Valley. Unpublished Phd thesis. University of Cambridge. Department of Archaeology.
- ih207@cam.ac.uk. "Prof Marie Louise Stig Sørensen — Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- Bristol, University of. "Professor Joanna Bruck - School of Arts". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- Brück, Joanna (2015). "'A good Irishman should blush every time he sees a penny': Gender, nationalism and memory in Irish internment camp craftwork, 1916–1923". Journal of Material Culture. 20 (2): 149–172. doi:10.1177/1359183515577010. ISSN 1359-1835. S2CID 220072159.
- Bruck, Joanna. (2001). Bronze Age Landscapes : Tradition and Transformation. Havertown: Oxbow Books. ISBN 9781785705366. OCLC 973190721.
- "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
- "The Council | The Prehistoric Society". www.prehistoricsociety.org. Retrieved 2019-06-16.