Joanna Bruck is an archaeologist and academic, who is a specialist on Bronze Age Britain and

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. Since 2020, she has been Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology at

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. She was previously Professor of Archaeology at the

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between 2013 and 2020.

Education

She studied for a BA and PhD at the

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. Her thesis, awarded in 1997, was titled "''The early-middle bronze age transition in Wessex, Sussex and the Thames Valley''", supervised by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen.

Career

Bruck was a junior research fellow at

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from 1997 to 1999. She then moved to

, where she had been appointed a lecturer in archaeology in 1999. By 2006, she had been promoted to

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. In 2013, she moved to the

where she had been appointed

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in Archaeology. She was promoted to Professor of Archaeology at Bristol, before returning University College Dublin as Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology in 2020. Her research themes have included the body and personhood, landscape, domestic architecture, material culture and deposition. More recent work has included nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland, including the 1916 Rising and the archaeology of internment. 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

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. In 1999 she co-established the Bronze Age Forum with Stuart Needham. She was previously editor of PAST, the newsletter of the

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. Bruck is on the editorial board of ''Archaeological Dialogues'' and vice president of the

Selected publications

* Bruck, J. 2019. ''Personifying Prehistory. Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland''. Oxford: OUP. * 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. ''

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'' 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 The ''Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute'' (JRAI) is the principal journal of the oldest anthropological organization in the world, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Articles, at the forefront of the di ...

'' 7.4: 649-667. * Brück, J. 2004. Material metaphors: the relational construction of identity in Early Bronze Age burials in Ireland and Britain. ''

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'' 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bruck, Joanna Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Bristol British archaeologists British women archaeologists