Joanna Bruck

Bruck was a junior research fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1997 to 1999. She then moved to University College Dublin, where she had been appointed a lecturer in archaeology in 1999.^[4] By 2006, she had been promoted to senior lecturer.^[1] In 2013, she moved to the University of Bristol where she had been appointed Reader in Archaeology.^[5] She was promoted to Professor of Archaeology at Bristol, before returning University College Dublin as Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology in 2020.^[4]

Her research themes have included the body and personhood, landscape, domestic architecture, material culture and deposition.^[6] More recent work has included nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland, including the 1916 Rising and the archaeology of internment.^[7]

She has edited several volumes, including Making Places in the Prehistoric World: Themes in Settlement Archaeology (1999) and Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation (2002).

She has received research funding from the British Academy.^[1] In 1999 she co-established the Bronze Age Forum with Stuart Needham.^[8] She was previously editor of PAST, the newsletter of the Prehistoric Society.^[1] Bruck is on the editorial board of Archaeological Dialogues^[9] and vice president of the Prehistoric Society.^[10]

In 2023 she was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA).^[11] In 2025, she was elected an International Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).^[12]

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• Bruck, J. 2019. Personifying Prehistory. Relational Ontologies in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Oxford: OUP.
• Bruck, J. (ed.) 2002. Bronze Age Landscapes: Tradition and Transformation. Oxford: Oxbow.

• Brück, J. 1995. A place for the dead: the role of human remains in Late Bronze Age Britain. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 61
• Brück, J. 1999. Ritual and rationality: some problems of interpretation in European archaeology. European Journal of Archaeology 2.3: 313-344.
• Brück, J. 2001. Monuments, power and personhood in the British Neolithic. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 7.4: 649-667.
• Brück, J. 2004. Material metaphors: the relational construction of identity in Early Bronze Age burials in Ireland and Britain. Journal of Social Archaeology 4.3: 307-333.
• Brück, J. 2005. Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory. Archaeological Dialogues 12(1), 45-72.