Rebecca Gowland Explained
| Rebecca Gowland |
| Alma Mater: | Durham University |
| Workplaces: | Durham University |
| Occupation: | Bioarchaeologist |
| Thesis Title: | Age as an aspect of social identity in fourth-to-sixth- century AD England : the archaeological funerary evidence |
| Thesis Year: | 2002 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Sam Lucy and Andrew Millard |
Rebecca Gowland is a bioarchaeologist. She is a Professor of Archaeology at Durham University.
Education
Gowland studied for an undergraduate degree at Durham University. She then completed a master's degree at the University of Sheffield before returning to Durham, where she completed her PhD in 2002.[1] [2]
Career
After completing her PhD, Gowland undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Sheffield and University of Dundee. Gowland held a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. She was appointed at Durham University in 2006 as a lecturer in Bioarchaeology.[3] She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and Professor in 2019.
She has received funding from the British Academy,[4] and The Wenner-Gren Foundation.[5] Gowland has been Associate Editor of the journal Antiquity since 2018. She is an Associate Editor at Bioarchaeology International,[6] and the Treasurer of The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past.[7]
Her research interests include health and the life course in the Roman World,[8] [9] palaeopathology, social perceptions of the physically impaired and the inter-relationship between the human skeleton and social identity. Gowland has co-edited The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, with Chris Knüsel (2006) and The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (2019) with Siân Halcrow. She has co-authored Human Identity and Identification with Tim Thompson (2013).
Selected publications
- Gowland, R.L., and A. G. Western. Morbidity in the marshes: Using spatial epidemiology to investigate skeletal evidence for malaria in Anglo‐Saxon England (AD 410–1050). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147.2: 301–311.
- Gowland, R. L., Chamberlain, A. & Redfern, R. C. (2014). On the brink of being: re-evaluating infanticide and infant burial in Roman Britain. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 96: 69–88.
- Gowland, R. L. (2015). Entangled lives: Implications of the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis for bioarchaeology and the life course. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158(4): 530–540.
- Gowland, R. L. (2016). Elder abuse: evaluating the potentials and problems of diagnosis in the archaeological record. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 26(3): 514–523.
- Gowland, R. L. (2017). Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach. Britannia 48: 175–194.
- Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Newman, S., Levene, A. & Holst, M. (2018). Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries). Bioarchaeology International 2(1): 44–62.
Notes and References
- Web site: Professor R Gowland - Durham University. www.dur.ac.uk. 2020-03-14.
- Web site: Meet the Team Antiquity Journal. antiquity.ac.uk. 2020-03-14.
- Web site: Rebecca Gowland. The Conversation. en. 2020-03-14.
- Web site: Small Research Grants - Past Awards: 2013-14. The British Academy. en. 2020-03-06.
- Web site: Gowland, Rebecca Louise The Wenner-Gren Foundation. www.wennergren.org. 2020-03-06.
- Web site: Editorial Board. journals.upress.ufl.edu. 2020-03-14.
- Web site: The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past. www.sscip.org.uk. 2020-03-14.
- Gowland. Rebecca. 2017. Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach. Britannia. en. 48. 177–194. 10.1017/S0068113X17000125. 0068-113X.
- Gowland. Rebecca. Redfern. Rebecca. 2010-09-01. Childhood Health in the Roman World: Perspectives from the Centre and Margin of the Empire. Childhood in the Past. 3. 1. 15–42. 10.1179/cip.2010.3.1.15. 129856590. 1758-5716.
