Gilly Carr | |
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Born | 1972 (age 52–53) |
Title | Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Holocaust Heritage |
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Doctoral advisor | Simon Stoddart |
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Discipline | Archaeology |
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Gillian Clare Carr (born 1972) is a British archaeologist and academic. She currently specialises in the Holocaust and conflict archaeology, while her early career research focused on the Iron Age and Roman Archaeology. She is Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Holocaust Heritage at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education, and a fellow and director of studies in archaeology at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Royal Historical Society. In 2020, she won the EAA European Heritage Prize for her work on the heritage of victims of Nazism.
Carr was born in 1972. [1] She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in archaeology by the University of Cambridge in 1999. [2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Romanization and the body: changing identities in the Later Iron Age and Early Roman period in the territory of the Trinovantes and Catuvellauni". [3]
She has been Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Holocaust Heritage at the University of Cambridge since 2024, [4] and academic director in archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). She is also a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, [5] a Partner of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, and a member of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. [6] She is also a member of the UK delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. She current chairs IHRA's 'Safeguarding Sites' project, which is writing a charter to safeguard Holocaust heritage in Europe.
Carr's graduate degrees and early research was on the Iron Age and Roman Archaeology. Her current work centres on Conflict Archaeology and war heritage, especially that of World War II in Europe. Her research focuses, among other topics, on the history and legacy of the German occupation of the Channel Islands, the Nazi labor camps in the Islands and the victims of Nazism. [7] Carr researched the German occupation of the Channel Islands and the deportation of over 200 islanders for acts of protest, defiance and resistance. This work can be seen in her website, the Frank Falla Archive. Her work on Channel Islander victims of Nazism were the subject of an exhibition titled: On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands at the Wiener Holocaust Library from October 2017 to February 2018. The exhibition also has a permanent online presence at the library. [8] [9] The exhibition then moved to Guernsey Museum in 2019.
Carr has also researched the material culture of the Channel Islanders deported to internment camps in Germany during the Second World War. She has published over 70 journal articles and books on her research. She is one of the 12 members of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. [10]
In 2016, Carr was a recipient of the Cambridge University's Vice-Chancellor Awards for Impact. [11] On 10 October 2019, Carr was elected as a Fellow to the Society of Antiquaries of London. [12] She was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 2019. [13] In 2020, she was awarded the EAA European Heritage Prize. [14]
In the 2025 New Year Honours, Carr was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Holocaust research and education. [15]
[5 previous volumes on Iron Age and Roman Archaeology, one authored and four co-edited]