Graduate Student, Archaeology and Anthropology
PhD student
Murray Edwards
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Dr Simon Stoddart
Dr John Robb Dr Sara Owen |
About
My PhD project explores cultural encounters in Iron Age Thrace from the point of view of post-colonial anthropology. The aim is to re-assess how long-term social processes in Thrace relate to cultural encounter with the Greek world and Mediterranean-wide dynamics. I am looking at the construction of identity and difference between local communities in Thrace, Greek settlers, and the Persian empire through funerary practices and pottery.
My academic interests are very wide, spanning across archaeology and anthropology. Geographically they range across the Mediterranean, Middle East and Central Asia. Thematically I am interested in cultural interaction, funerary practices, commensality, the way societies construct relationships to their past, the political roles of archaeology, the memory and materiality of post-socialist heritage. My previous research involved work on gender in Late Iron Age – Hellenistic burials in Thrace, the historiography of Bulgarian archaeology, and the Soviet Army Monument in Sofia. I also excavate and work in the ceramics lab at Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
