Rebecca Gowland | |
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Occupation | Bioarchaeologist |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Durham University |
Thesis | Age as an aspect of social identity in fourth-to-sixth- century AD England : the archaeological funerary evidence (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Sam Lucy and Andrew Millard |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Durham University |
Rebecca Gowland is a bioarchaeologist. She is a Professor of Archaeology at Durham University.
Gowland studied for an undergraduate degree at Durham University. She then completed a master's degree at the University of Sheffield before returning to Durham,where she completed her PhD in 2002. [1] [2]
After completing her PhD,Gowland undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Sheffield and University of Dundee. Gowland held a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College,Cambridge. She was appointed at Durham University in 2006 as a lecturer in Bioarchaeology. [2] [3] She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and Professor in 2019. [3] [1]
She has received funding from the British Academy, [4] and The Wenner-Gren Foundation. [5] Gowland has been Associate Editor of the journal Antiquity since 2018. [2] [1] She is an Associate Editor at Bioarchaeology International, [6] and the Treasurer of The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past. [7]
Her research interests include health and the life course in the Roman World, [8] [9] palaeopathology,social perceptions of the physically impaired and the inter-relationship between the human skeleton and social identity. Gowland has co-edited The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains,with Chris Knüsel (2006) and The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings,Significant Outcomes (2019) with Siân Halcrow. [1] She has co-authored Human Identity and Identification with Tim Thompson (2013).
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