Joanna Sofaer

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Joanna Sofaer

FSA
Education University of Cambridge
OccupationArchaeologist, Professor
Employer University of Southampton
Known forbioarchaoelogy and social identity in Central Europe and the Balkans
Notable work
The Body as Material Culture (2006)
Clay in the Age of Bronze: Essays in the archaeology of prehistoric creativity (2015)
AwardsFellow, Society of Antiquaries

Joanna Rachel Sofaer Derevenski FSA , known as Joanna Sofaer, is a British archaeologist and academic, who specialises in the European Bronze Age, using theoretical approaches, and material culture studies. She is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton. [1]

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Career

Sofaer received her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree from the University of Cambridge in 1998, supervised by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen. [2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Gender archaeology as contextual archaeology: a critical examination of the tensions between method and theory in the archaeology of gender". [3] She was a research fellow at Cambridge until 2000. She is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton and Director of Archaeology for the Creative Industries. [1]

Sofaer's research combines bioarchaeology and social identity, with a particular focus on childhood. [2] Her research focuses on Central Europe and the Balkans, and Sofaer co-directs research at the Bronze Age tell settlement at Százhalombatta, Hungary. [1]

She is engaged in several multidisciplinary research projects, including Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA), in which she manages the "Creativity and Craft Production in Middle and Late Bronze Age Europe" project (2010-2013), and the EC-funded Marie-Curie ITN "Forging Identities" project. [2] [4]

She has published widely, including a 2006 monograph The Body as Material Culture, and the 2015 monograph Clay in the Age of Bronze. Essays in the archaeology of prehistoric creativity, which has been described as "rich and thought-provoking". [5] Sofaer has edited the volumes Considering creativity: creativity, knowledge and practice in Bronze Age Europe (2018), Biographies and Space (2007), Material Identities (2007), and Children and Material Culture (2000).

Sofaer was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) in 2013. She was a Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellow from 2017 to 2020. [1] She is a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Archaeology, Zagreb. [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 "Joanna Sofaer | TrowelBlazers". trowelblazers.com. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  3. Sofaer Derevenski, Joanna Rachel (1998). Gender archaeology as contextual archaeology : a critical examination of the tensions between method and theory in the archaeology of gender. E-Thesis Online Service (Ph.D). The British Library Board. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  4. Sofaer, Joanna (2015), "Preface and Acknowledgements", Clay in the Age of Bronze, Cambridge University Press, pp. xi–xii, doi:10.1017/cbo9781139045636.001, ISBN   9781139045636
  5. Malafouris, Lambros (2017). "Joanna Sofaer . Clay in the Age of Bronze: Essays in the Archaeology of Prehistoric Creativity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 224pp., 32 b/w illustr., 7 maps, 2 tables, pbk, ISBN 978-0-521-15536-6)". European Journal of Archaeology. 20 (1): 190–193. doi:10.1017/eaa.2016.18. ISSN   1461-9571. S2CID   165085446.
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