Joanna Bruck

Joanna Bruck is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bristol, who is a specialist on Bronze Age Britain.

Education

She studied for a BA and PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her thesis, awarded in 1997, was titled "The early-middle bronze age transition in Wessex, Sussex and the Thames Valley", supervised by Marie Louise Stig Sorensen.

Career

Bruck was a research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, after which she was appointed as a Lecturer at University College Dublin.

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

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. In 1999 she co-established the Bronze Age Forum with Stuart Needham.She was previously editor of PAST, the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society. Bruck is on the editorial board of Archaeological Dialogues and vice president of the Prehistoric Society.

Selected publications

Books

Bruck, J. 2019. Personifying Prehistory. Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Oxford: OUP.

Edited volumes

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.