Marie Louise Stig Sørensen FBA FSA (born 1954) is a Danish archaeologist and academic. She is Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge[1] and Professor of Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Leiden. Her research focuses on Bronze Age Europe, heritage, and archaeological theory.
Prof Marie Louise Stig Sørensen | |
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Awards | European Archaeology Heritage Prize 2014 |
Academic background | |
Thesis | The transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in Scandinavia : a study of the changes reflected by the bronzes from period 5 and 6 in Scandinavia (1984) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Cambridge Leiden University |
Doctoral students | Joanna Bruck |
Early life
editSørensen was born in Denmark in 1954. She graduated from the University of Aarhus in 1981,[2] and later received a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1985 on the subject of the Bronze Age to Iron Age transition in Scandinavia.[3][2]
Career
editSørensen was appointed at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge in 1987.[4] In 2011 she was appointed a Reader at the University of Cambridge, and in 2012 she became a Professor in Bronze Age studies at the University of Leiden.[3][5] She is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge where she is Director of Studies in Archaeology and in Human, Social, and Political Sciences.[6]
She has received research funding from a range of research councils, including the Cultural Heritage and the Re-construction of Identities after Conflict project, and the Leverhulme Trust-funded Changing Beliefs of the Human Body project.[7] Sørensen is undertaking excavations at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary,[8] and at an early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde.[9]
Her monograph Gender Archaeology is a key publication.[3]
Honours and awards
editSørensen was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 10 October 2010.[10] In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[11]
Sørensen was awarded the 16th European Archaeology Heritage Prize in 2014, in recognition of her exceptional contributions to heritage preservation.[12] She gave the Felix Neubergh lecture at the Gothenburg University, Sweden,[6] and received the Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsens Science Prize from Aarhus University in 2014.[2] In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.[4]
Selected publications
edit- Sørensen M.L.S. 1997. Reading Dress: the construction of social categories and identities in Bronze Age Europe. Journal of European Archaeology 5(1), 93–114.
- Diaz-Andreu M. and Sørensen M.L.S. 1998. Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology. London: Routledge.
- Sørensen M.L.S. 2000. Gender Archaeology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Sørensen M.L.S. 2009. Gender, Material Culture and Identity in the Viking Age Diaspora. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 5, 245–261.
- Sorensen M.L.S. and Rebay-Salisbury K. 2009. Landscapes of the body: burials of the Middle Bronze Age in Hungary. European Journal of Archaeology 11(1), 49–74. DOI: 10.1177/1461957108101241
- Rebay-Salisbury, K., Sorensen, M.L.S and Hughes, J. (eds.), 2010. Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Changing Relations and Meanings. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sørensen M.L.S. 2010. Households. In T. Earle (ed.), Organizing Bronze Age Societies. The Mediterranean, Central Europe & Scandinavia Compared. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 122–154.
References
edit- ^ bkd20@cam.ac.uk (26 April 2018). "Prof Marie Louise Stig Sorensen — Cambridge Heritage Research Centre". www.heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c 15713@au.dk. "Marie Louise Stig Sørensen". medarbejdere.au.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2019-01-06.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b c "Marie Louise Stig Sørensen | TrowelBlazers". 22 March 2017. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ a b College, Jesus. "Professor Marie Louise Sørensen PhD". Jesus College University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ "Marie Sorensen". Leiden University. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ a b College, Jesus. "Professor Marie Louise Sørensen PhD". Jesus College University of Cambridge. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ "Dr Marie Louise Stig Sørensen | CinBA". cinba.net. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ "Százhalombatta Archaeological Expedition (SAX)". Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ "Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde | Antiquity Journal". antiquity.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
- ^ [sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/prof-marie-sorensen/ "Prof Marie Sørensen"]. Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
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value (help) - ^ "Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen FBA". The British Academy. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ "EAA Heritage Prize". www.e-a-a.org. Retrieved 2019-01-06.