Gillian Carr
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Biography
Gillian Carr FSA is an archaeologist who initially specialised in the fields of Iron Age and Roman archaeology, before moving into the fields of holocaust and conflict archaeology. She is a Senior Lecturer at St Catharine's College, Cambridge.
Biography
Carr is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, a Fellow and Director of Studies in Archaeology and Anthropology at St Catharine's College, and a Partner of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre. She is one of the 12 members of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
In 2016 she was a winner of the Cambridge University's Vice-Chancellor Awards for Impact. In October 2017, an exhibition based on her research titled 'On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands' was on display at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide and has since been adapted as an online exhibition hosted by the library.
Carr was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London on 31 October 2019.
Select publications
- Carr, G., Swift, E, and Weekes, J. 2003. TRAC 2002: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, Canterbury 2002. Available online.
- Carr, G. 2005. "Woad, Tattooing and Identity in Later Iron Age and Early Roman Britain", Oxford Journal of Archaeology 24 (3), 273-292.
- Carr, G. 2006. Creolised Bodies and Hybrid Identities: Examining the Later Iron Age and Early Roman Periods of Essex and Hertfordshire (BAR British Series 418). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
- Carr, G. and Mytum, H. (eds) 2012. Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire. New York: Routledge.
- Carr, G. 2014. Legacies of Occupation: Archaeology, Heritage and Memory in the Channel Islands. Springer.
- Carr, G., Willmot, L. and Sanders, P. 2014. Protest, Defiance and Resistance in the German Occupied Channel Islands, 1940-1945. Bloomsbury Academic.
- Carr, G. and Reeves, K. (ed.) 2015. Heritage and Memory of War: Responses from small islands. Routledge: New York.
- Carr, G. and Sturdy Colls, C. 2016. "Taboo and Sensitive Heritage: Labour camps, burials and the role of activism in the Channel Islands", International Journal of Heritage Studies 22 (9): 702-715. doi:10.1080/13527258.2016.1191524
- Carr, G. 2016. "‘Illicit Antiquities’? The Collection of Nazi militaria in the Channel Islands", World Archaeology 48(2): 254-266. doi:10.1080/00438243.2016.1152196
- Carr, G. 2019. Victims of Nazism in the Channel Islands: A legitimate Heritage?. Bloomsbury Academic.