Professor Karina Croucher
Professor
| Faculty/Dept/School |
School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences (Faculty of Life Sciences) |
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| k.croucher@bradford.ac.uk | |
| @KarinaKTC |
Biography
I have been at the University of Bradford since 2012 and enjoy teaching and researching in such a world-leading department. I am interested in inter-disciplinary approaches to understanding the past, and the role of the past today, as evidenced in my recent Arts and Humanities Research Council Project, ‘Continuing Bonds: exploring the meaning and legacy of death through past and contemporary practice’, which unites Archaeology with End of Life Care (www.bradford.ac.uk/continuingbonds), and the Dying to Talk Project (www.bradford.ac.uk/Dying-to-talk) which co-produced a resource encouraging young people to discuss death and dying.
My research also focuses on Middle Eastern prehistory, particularly funerary archaeology – investigating how people treated their dead in the past. My British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship resulted in the publication of ‘Death and Dying in the Neolithic Near East’ (2012, Oxford University Press).
My current research in Jordan unites the above research strands, focusing on the role that cultural heritage plays in identity, social cohesion, and in providing a sense of place, particularly for displaced and host communities.
I have lectured at Manchester and Liverpool Universities and have worked for the University of Manchester's Widening Participation Team, and for the Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology (based at Liverpool University), where I researched and worked on topics including diversity and inclusivity, fieldwork, employability and enterprise, and sustainability.These prior positions and my current research reflect my interest in methodological issues of interpretation, representation and the portrayal of the past in the present.
Research
Death and Dying: Funerary archaeology and mortuary practices across the world and through time, particularly of the Neolithic of the Middle East/Southwest Asia, investigating themes such as identity, gender and personhood.Archaeology and its relevance today: Communicating the value of archaeology, and pioneering a new approach to encouraging talk about death and dying today, through the use of the past www.bradford.ac.uk/ContinuingBonds and www.bradford.ac.uk/Dying-to-talk. The role of archaeology in using creative media to discuss difficult topics, the topic of Continuing Bonds: Creative Disseminations (due to start Jan 2019) and work allied with the Whitworth Park Project, Manchester.
Role of archaeology and cultural heritage to displaced communities and host communities, particularly in Jordan and the Middle East, as well as highlighting role of cultural heritage in social cohesion.
Archaeological pedagogy (research in teaching and learning in archaeology). Currently co-authoring Assembling Archaeology: A relational approach to teaching, practice and research, Oxford University Press.
Undercutting these research areas is a motivation to promote equality, diversity and inclusivity in research and teaching.
| Date | Role | Title / Description | Funder | Award |
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| - | Project leader (Principle Investigator) | Dying to Talk: an interdisciplinary project working with charities and community groups in Bradford | ||
| 01-APR-18 - 31-AUG-18 | Principle Investigator | Continuing Bonds: Exploring the meaning and legacy of death through past and contemporary practice | ||
| - | Co-Investigator | BReaTHe: Building Resilience through Heritage |
Professional activities
- 01-JAN-05: University of Manchester - PhD in Archaeology
- 01-JAN-01: University of Manchester - MA in Archaeology (with Distinction)
- 01-JAN-00: University of Manchester - BA(Hons) in Archaeology (First Class)
- 01-JAN-11: University of Manchester - British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Chair: Chair, British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology Steering Group
- Senior Fellow: Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow
- Research: GENOVATE for Life Sciences, University of Bradford
Publications
| Peer Reviewed Journal | |
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| Title | The Bioarchaeology of Disability: A population-scale approach to investigating disability, physical impairment, and care in archaeological communities (2022) |
| Authors | Bohling, S., Croucher, K., Buckberry, J. |
| Journal | International Journal of Paleopathology |
| Title | Archaeology and contemporary death: Using the past to provoke, challenge and engage (2020) |
| Authors | Karina Croucher, Lindsey Büster, Jennifer Dayes, Laura Green, Justine Raynsford, Louise Comerford Boyes and Christina Faull |
| Journal | PLoS ONE |
| Title | Dying to Talk? Co-producing resources with young people to get them talking about bereavement, death and dying (2020) |
| Authors | Booth J, Croucher KT and Bryant EJ |
| Journal | Voluntary Sector Review |
| Publisher | Policy Press |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1332/204080520X16014085811284 |
| Title | From Plastered Skulls to Palliative Care: What the Past Can Teach Us About Dealing with Death (2018) |
| Authors | Büster, Lindsey S.; Croucher, Karina T.; Dayes, Jennifer E.; Green, Laura I.; Faull, C. |
| Title | Keeping the dead close: grief and bereavement in the treatment of skulls from the Neolithic Middle East (2018) |
| Authors | Croucher, Karina T. |
| Title | Archaeology and modern reflections on death (2018) |
| Authors | Dayes, Jennifer E.; Faull, C.; Büster, Lindsey S.; Green, Laura I.; Croucher, Karina T. |
| Title | Personal, Political, Pedagogic: Challenging the binary bind in archaeological teaching, learning and fieldwork (2016) |
| Authors | Cobb, H.; Croucher, Karina T. |
| Title | Prioritizing death and society: the archaeology of Chalcolithic and contemporary cemeteries in the Southern Levant (2015) |
| Authors | Croucher K. |
| Journal | Mortality |
| DOI | 10.1080/13576275.2015.1052381 |
| Title | Assembling archaeological pedagogy. A theoretical framework for valuing pedagogy in archaeological interpretation and practice (2014) |
| Authors | Cobb H.;Croucher K. |
| Journal | Archaeological Dialogues |
| DOI | 10.1017/S138020381400021X |
| Title | Assembling archaeological pedagogy. A theoretical framework for valuing pedagogy in archaeological interpretation and practice (2014) |
| Authors | Cobb, H.; Croucher, Karina T. |
| Title | Road my body goes: re-creating ancestors from stone at the great moai quarry of Rano Raraku, Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (2011) |
| Authors | Richards, C.; Croucher, Karina T.; Paoa, T.; Parish, T.; Tucki, E.; Welham, K. |
| Title | Beyond human: The materiality of personhood (2011) |
| Authors | Casella, E.; Croucher, Karina T. |
| Title | Queerying Near Eastern archaeology (2005) |
| Authors | Croucher K. |
| Journal | World Archaeology |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438240500418664 |
| Other Journal | |
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| Title | Cranial Modification in Ancient Iran (2007) |
| Authors | Daems, A. and K. Croucher |
| Journal | Iranica Antiqua |
| Book | |
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| Title | Assembling Archaeology: Teaching, practice and research (2020) |
| Authors | Cobb, Hannah; Croucher, Karina |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Title | Death and dying in the Neolithic Near East (2012) |
| Authors | Croucher, Karina T. |
| Title | Investigating the role of fieldwork in the undergraduate degree (2008) |
| Authors | Croucher, K., H. Cobb and A. Brennan |
| Publisher | Carnegie Publishers/Higher Education Academy |
| Book Chapters | |
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| Title | Dig! Arts Access Project: Reclaiming Park Spaces (2019) |
| Authors | Giles, Melanie and Croucher, Karina |
| Journal | Engaging Communities in Archaeology |
| Publisher | Archaeopress |
| Title | Afterword: The Public Archaeology of Death: Emotion, Equality and Student Experience (2019) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | The Public Archaeology of Death |
| Publisher | Equinox Press |
| Title | Rising, Falling, Assembling: Pedagogy in British Archaeology (2019) |
| Authors | Cobb, H.; Croucher, Karina T. |
| Journal | History and Approaches to Heritage Studies |
| Publisher | University Press of Florida |
| Title | Plastered skulls: evidence of grief and mourning (2019) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | Iconography and Symbolic Meaning |
| Publisher | Austrian Academy for Science |
| Title | Living with the dead, past and present: A reinterpretation of Southwest Asia’s Neolithic mortuary practices in light of contemporary theories of bereavement (2017) |
| Authors | Croucher, Karina |
| Journal | Engaging with the Dead: Exploring Changing Human Beliefs about Death, Mortality and the Human Body |
| Publisher | Oxbow |
| Title | Anatolia (2017) |
| Authors | K. Croucher and E. Belcher |
| Journal | The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Title | Digitised Diseases: Seeing Beyond the Specimen to Understand Disease and Disability in the Past (2017) |
| Authors | Wilson, A.S., Manchester, K., Buckberry, J., Storm, R.A., Croucher, K.T. |
| Journal | New developments in the bioarcheology of care: further case studies and extended theory |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Title | Life and death in late-prehistoric to early historic Mesopotamia (2015) |
| Authors | Croucher, Karina T. |
| Title | Feminist Pedagogy: implications and practice (2014) |
| Authors | Croucher, Karina T.; Cobb, H.; Casella, E. |
| Title | Wrapped in images: body metaphors, petroglyphs and landscape in the island world of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) (2014) |
| Authors | Croucher, Karina T.; Richards, C. |
| Title | Heritage and Education (2013) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Title | Bodily identity: a discussion of mortuary practices and bodily treatment in the Upper Mesopotamian Later Neolithic (2013) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia |
| Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
| Title | Decay, temporality & the politics of conservation: An archaeological approach to object studies (2013) |
| Authors | Casella, E. and K. Croucher, |
| Journal | Objects and Materials, A Routledge Companion |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Title | Prehistoric Anatolia (2011) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Title | . Field Schools, transferable skills and enhancing employability (2011) |
| Authors | Cobb, H. and K. Croucher |
| Journal | Global Perspectives on Archaeological Field Schools: Constructions of Knowledge and Experience |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Title | Figuring out Identity: The Body and Identity in the ‘Ubaid (2010) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | The ‘Ubaid and Beyond: Exploring the transmission of culture in the developed prehistoric societies of the Middle East |
| Publisher | Oriental Institute Publications of the Oriental Institute |
| Title | Bodies in pieces in the Neolithic Near East (2010) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | In Body Parts and Wholes: Changing relations and meanings |
| Publisher | Oxbow |
| Title | The Past in the Present: Issues, perspectives and challenges in teaching & learning archaeology in the UK (2010) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | Heritage Values in Contemporary Society |
| Publisher | University Press of Florida |
| Title | Tactile engagements: the world of the dead in the lives of the living... or 'sharing the dead' (2010) |
| Authors | Croucher, Karina T. |
| Title | Ambiguous genders, altered identities: Alternative interpretations of figurine and mortuary evidence from the ‘PPNB’ – ‘Halaf’ periods (2008) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | Gender Through Time in the Ancient Near East |
| Publisher | Alta Mira Press |
| Title | Prehistory of Iran: Artificial cranial modification (2008) |
| Authors | Daems, A. and K. Croucher |
| Journal | Encyclopaedia Iranica |
| Publisher | N/A |
| Title | Death, Display and Performance: A discussion of the mortuary remains at Çayönü Tepesi, Southeast Turkey (2006) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | Archaeology of Cult and Death |
| Publisher | Archaeolingua Publications |
| Title | Getting Ahead: Exploring meanings of skulls in the Neolithic Near East (2006) |
| Authors | K. Croucher |
| Journal | Skull Collection, Modification and Decoration |
| Publisher | British Archaeological Reports International Series / Archaeopress |
| Edited Book | |
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| Title | ‘Cultural Heritage Management’ Section, Encyclopaedia of Global Archaeology (2013) |
| Authors | Multiple authors |
| Publisher | Springer |
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