University of Cambridge

Post-Doc, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Research Fellow

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My research explores the social transformations that took place during late Antiquity and the early medieval period in central Europe. I'm focusing on gender, lifetime changes of identity and mobility, making use of a combination of identity studies, theoretical approaches to material culture and stable isotope analysis.

Currently, I'm examining gender-specific mobility in cemeteries in southern Germany, dating from the fifth and early sixth centuries AD. By integrating an examination of the deceased’s social identities that were expressed through burial practice with isotopic analysis, I am  investigating how many individuals did not grow up locally, the potential direction of their movements, and how migration processes influenced the identities expressed in burial practice.

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