Joanna Bruck

• Prehistory
• landscape archaeology
• Bronze Age Europe

Joanna Bruck MRIA
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Thesis	The early-middle bronze age transition in Wessex, Sussex and the Thames Valley  (1997)
Institutions	Clare Hall, Cambridge University College Dublin University of Bristol

Joanna Bruck MRIA is an archaeologist and academic, who is a specialist on Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Since 2020, she has been Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin. She was previously Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bristol between 2013 and 2020.

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 junior research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1997 to 1999. She then moved to University College Dublin, where she had been appointed a lecturer in archaeology in 1999. ^[4] By 2006, she had been promoted to senior lecturer. ^[1] In 2013, she moved to the University of Bristol where she had been appointed Reader in Archaeology. ^[5] 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. ^[4]

Her research themes have included the body and personhood, landscape, domestic architecture, material culture and deposition. ^[6] More recent work has included nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland, including the 1916 Rising and the archaeology of internment. ^[7]

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. ^[8] She was previously editor of PAST, the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society. ^[1] Bruck is on the editorial board of Archaeological Dialogues ^[9] and vice president of the Prehistoric Society. ^[10] In 2023 she was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA). ^[11]

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. 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

1. 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. S2CID   232174506.
2. 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.
3. "Prof Marie Louise Stig Sørensen — Department of Archaeology". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. 17 May 2013. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
4. "Professor Joanna Bruck". people.ucd.ie. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
5. "Institution:University of Bristol; Unit of Assessment:17 –Geography, Environment Studies and Archaeology" (pdf). REF 2014. 2014. Retrieved 22 February 2021. The change is comprehensive, facilitated by highly strategic hiring of staff, [...] and in 2013 for a Reader in Archaeology (Joanna Brück)
6. Bristol, University of. "Professor Joanna Bruck - School of Arts". www.bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
7. 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. hdl: 1983/760bc9ba-f151-4378-bbb1-8dd06a8b5758 . ISSN   1359-1835. S2CID   220072159.
8. Bruck, Joanna. (2001). Bronze Age Landscapes : Tradition and Transformation. Havertown: Oxbow Books. ISBN   9781785705366. OCLC   973190721.
9. "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
10. "The Council | The Prehistoric Society". www.prehistoricsociety.org. Archived from the original on 2021-09-26. Retrieved 2019-06-16.
11. "Admittance Day 2023". www.ria.ie. Royal Irish Academy. 26 May 2023. Archived from the original on 4 December 2023. Retrieved 27 May 2023.