Gillian Carr Explained

Honorific Prefix:Dr
Gilly Carr
Discipline:Archaeology
Doctoral Advisor:Simon Stoddart

Gillian "Gilly" Carr is a British archaeologist and academic. She currently specialises in the Holocaust and conflict archaeology, while her early career research focused on the Iron Age and Roman Archaeology. She is an associate professor and academic director in archaeology at the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education, and a fellow and director of studies in archaeology at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Royal Historical Society. In 2020, she won the EAA European Heritage Prize for her work on the heritage of victims of Nazism.

Academic career

Carr was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in archaeology by the University of Cambridge in 1999.[1] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Romanization and the body: changing identities in the Later Iron Age and Early Roman period in the territory of the Trinovantes and Catuvellauni".[2]

She is an associate professor in archaeology at the University of Cambridge, and academic director in archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE). She is also a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, a Partner of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, and a member of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.[3] She is also a member of the UK delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. She current chairs IHRA's 'Safeguarding Sites' project, which is writing a charter to safeguard Holocaust heritage in Europe.

Research

Carr's graduate degrees and early research was on the Iron Age and Roman Archaeology. Her current work centres on Conflict Archaeology and war heritage, especially that of World War II in Europe. Her research focuses, among other topics, on the history and legacy of the German occupation of the Channel Islands, the Nazi labor camps in the Islands and the victims of Nazism.[4] Carr researched the German occupation of the Channel Islands and the deportation of over 200 islanders for acts of protest, defiance and resistance. This work can be seen in her website, the Frank Falla Archive. Her work on Channel Islander victims of Nazism were the subject of an exhibition titled: On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands at the Wiener Holocaust Library from October 2017 to February 2018. The exhibition also has a permanent online presence at the library.[5] [6] The exhibition then moved to Guernsey Museum in 2019.

Carr has also researched the material culture of the Channel Islanders deported to internment camps in Germany during the Second World War. She has published over 70 journal articles and books on her research. She is one of the 12 members of the UK delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.[7]

Awards and honours

In 2016, Carr was a recipient of the Cambridge University's Vice-Chancellor Awards for Impact.[8] On 10 October 2019, Carr was elected as a Fellow to the Society of Antiquaries of London.[9] She was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 2019.[10] In 2020, she was awarded the EAA European Heritage Prize.[11]

Select publications

Selected Recent Journal Papers

Books

[5 previous volumes on Iron Age and Roman Archaeology, one authored and four co-edited]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gilly Carr . orcid.org . 24 April 2023.
  2. Web site: Carr . G. . Romanization and the body: changing identities in the Later Iron Age and Early Roman period in the territory of the Trinovantes and Catuvellauni . E-Thesis Online Service . The British Library Board . 24 April 2023 . 2000 . 24 April 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230424134853/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.597307 . dead .
  3. Web site: Dr Gilly Carr . Department of Archaeology . University of Cambridge . 12 July 2021 . en . 21 June 2013.
  4. Web site: Dr Gilly Carr . St Catharine's College, Cambridge . 7 November 2019.
  5. Web site: On British Soil: Victims of Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands . Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide . 7 November 2019.
  6. Book: Cruikshank . Charles . The German Occupation of the Channel Islands . 1975 . Oxford University Press . 978-0192158086.
  7. Web site: United Kingdom: Delegation Members . International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance . 7 November 2019.
  8. Web site: Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Impact . 20 June 2016 . Cambridge University . 7 November 2019.
  9. Web site: Dr. Gilly Carr . Society of Antiquaries of London . 31 October 2019 . 25 June 2020.
  10. Web site: RHS Awards 2019, New Fellows and Members . The Royal Historical Society . 12 July 2021 . 9 July 2019 . 12 July 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210712100553/https://royalhistsoc.org/rhs-awards-2019-new-fellows-and-members/ . dead .
  11. Web site: Bonner . Laure . European Heritage Prize awarded to Dr Gilly Carr . Department of Archaeology . University of Cambridge . 1 December 2021 . en . 26 August 2020.

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