Hannah Cobb | |
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Born | Hannah C. Cobb |
Awards | National Teaching Fellowship (2022) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Manchester (PhD) |
Thesis | Media for movement and making the world : an examination of the Mesolithic experience of the world and the Mesolithic to Neolithic transition in the northern Irish Sea basin (2008) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Manchester |
Website | hannahcobbarchaeology |
Hannah C. Cobb FSA FSA Scot is an archaeologist at the University of Manchester,noted for her work on pedagogy,post-humanist theory,and diversity and equality in archaeology. [1] [2]
Cobb undertook her PhD research at the University of Manchester,completed in 2008. [3] [4]
Cobb is a Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy at the University of Manchester. [2] Her research focuses on the Mesolithic archaeology of north-west Europe,archaeological pedagogy,and equality and diversity in archaeology. Cobb has co-edited several monographs,including Investigating theRole of Fieldwork in Teaching and Learning Archaeology and Reconsidering Archaeological Fieldwork. Her work on archaeological pedagogy is strongly influenced by Manuel DeLanda and assemblage theory. [5]
Cobb was the Founder and chair of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIFA) Equality &Diversity Group (2015-2021), [6] and founded the EveryDigSexism Project. [7] She also co-directs the Whitworth Park Community Archaeology and History project. [8]
Her publications [1] include:
Cobb was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship from Advance HE in 2022. [9] She is also a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (MCIfA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2016. [10] The Ardnamurchan Transitions Project,which Cobb co-directs,was awarded the 2014 Archaeology Training Forum (ATF) Training Award. [11]
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