Caroline Jane Goodson is an archaeologist and historian at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, previously at

Birkbeck College Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a public university, public research university, located in Bloomsbury, London, England, and a constituent college, member institution of the federal Universit ...

, University of London. In 2003 she won the Rome Prize for medieval studies of the

American Academy in Rome The American Academy in Rome is a research and arts institution located on the Gianicolo (Janiculum Hill) in Rome. The academy is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. History In 1893, a group of American architects, ...

. In archaeological work, Goodson is most closely associated with the

Villa Magna Villa Magna is a large imperial ancient Roman villa near the modern town of Anagni, in Lazio, central Italy. The site lies in the Valle del Sacco some 65 km south of Rome, at the foot of the Monti Lepini, directly under the peak known as Mo ...

site in Italy where she has been field director since 2006.

Early life

Caroline Jane Goodson was brought up in Corpus Christi, Texas. She began her advanced education at

Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase the ...

from where she graduated with a

Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases. Background The Bachelor ...

degree in 1997 with a specialism in

printmaking Printmaking is the process of creating artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand processed techniq ...

and

art history Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

. She received her

master's degree A master's degree (from Latin ) is an academic degree awarded by universities or colleges upon completion of a course of study demonstrating mastery or a high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1998 where she studied at the Department of Art History and Archaeology. She then studied in Italy at the Scuola Interdisciplinare di Metodologie Archeologiche of the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri in

Bordighera Bordighera (; lij, A Bordighea, locally ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Imperia, Liguria (Italy). Geography Bordighera is located from the land border between Italy and France, and it is possible to see the French coast with a nak ...

after which she returned to Columbia University from where she received her doctorate in 2004.

Career

Goodson was first appointed as a teaching fellow at Columbia University on 2003/04. In 2004/05 she was a research associate at the Medieval Institute and a visiting professor at the

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin founded the school in 1842. The main campu ...

. From 2005 to 2018, Goodson was a lecturer at

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, first in

medieval history In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire a ...

and later in

medieval archaeology ''Medieval Archaeology'' is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal covering the archaeology of the medieval period, especially in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established in 1957 by the Society for Medieval Archaeology and is publishe ...

and history. She is a fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...

, the American Academy in Rome from where she received the Rome Prize in 2003, and the Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani.Dr Caroline Goodson.
Birkbeck College. Retrieved 4 December 2015. Goodson has worked on a number of archaeological sites, mostly in Italy, of which the most significant has been the

site where she has been field director since 2006. In 2007, she was awarded the Blackwells Prize for her article "Material memory: Rebuilding the basilica of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome" which appeared that year in the journal ''Early Medieval Europe''. In 2016, she was awarded a

Leverhulme Trust The Leverhulme Trust () is a large national grant-making organisation in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1925 under the will of the 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), with the instruction that its resources should be used to suppo ...

Research Fellowship for a project, "Urban gardening in Early Medieval Italy: cultivating the city." Goodson's research interests lie in early medieval Mediterranean society and culture, the archaeology of daily life and the

material culture Material culture is the aspect of social reality grounded in the objects and architecture that surround people. It includes the usage, consumption, creation, and trade of objects as well as the behaviors, norms, and rituals that the objects creat ...

of the everyday, urban gardening, and the diversification of city spaces in the Middle Ages.

Selected publications

Books

*''Walls and memory: The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio), from late Roman monastery to Renaissance villa and beyond''.

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, Turnhout, 2005. (Edited with

Elizabeth Fentress Elizabeth Barringer Fentress is a Roman archaeologist who specialises in Italy and North Africa. She has collaborated on the excavation of numerous sites in the Western Mediterranean and published their results. She is also the originator an ...

, P. Laird and S. Leone) ( Disciplina Monastica 2) *''Cities, texts and social networks, 400-1500: Experiences and perceptions of medieval urban space''.

Ashgate Ashgate Publishing was an academic book and journal publisher based in Farnham (Surrey, United Kingdom). It was established in 1967 and specialised in the social sciences, arts, humanities and professional practice. It had an American office in ...

, Aldershot, 2010. (With Anne Elisabeth Lester and

Carol Symes Carol Symes (born 1966) is an American medieval historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Symes founded the Education Justice Project's Theatre Initiative and directed a full-length production of William Shakespeare's ''The Temp ...

) ''Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500''.
Ashgate. Retrieved 4 December 2015. *''The Rome of Pope Paschal I (817-824): Papal power, urban renovation, church rebuilding and relic translation''.

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ...

, Cambridge, 2010. ( Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 77)

Articles and chapters

*"Material memory: Rebuilding the basilica of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome" in ''

Early Medieval Europe The Early Middle Ages (or early medieval period), sometimes controversially referred to as the Dark Ages, is typically regarded by historians as lasting from the late 5th or early 6th century to the 10th century. They marked the start of the Mi ...

'', 15.1 (2007), pp 20–52. *"Roman archaeology in medieval Rome" in ''Rome: Continuing encounters between past and present'', Dorigen Caldwell and Lesley Caldwell (Eds.), Ashgate, Aldershot, 2011, pp. 23–45. *"L’eredità di una villa imperiale in epoca bizantina e medievale" in ''

Archeologia Medievale ''Archeologia Medievale'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of post-classical archaeology and the history of material culture in the pre-industrial age. The journal was founded by Riccardo Francovich. It is indexed in SCOPUS Scopus is Else ...

'', 29 (2012), pp. 57–86. (With E. Fentress)

References

External links

Caroline Goodson at academia.eduCaroline Goodson at ''Day of Archaeology''.Caroline Goodson talking on “Kairouan and the formation of a ninth-century capital: a comparative perspective”.
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