Editorial

Authors

  • Rodney Harrison University College London
  • Laurie Wilkie University of California, Berkeley
  • Alfredo González-Ruibal Spanish National Research Council
  • Cornelius Holtorf Linnaeus University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v1i1.1

Keywords:

editorial, introduction

Author Biographies

  • Rodney Harrison, University College London

    Rodney Harrison is a Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is the (co-)author or (co-)editor of around a dozen books and edited volumes and over 50 refereed journal articles and book chapters on a range of topics, with particular foci on archaeologies of the present and recent past, historical archaeologies of colonialism, critical heritage studies and the histories of museums, archaeology and anthropology. His books include After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past (written with John Schofield, OUP, 2010), Heritage: Critical Approaches (Routledge, 2012) and The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World (edited with Paul Graves-Brown and Angela Piccini, OUP, 2013). He has previously held research and teaching positions at The Open University, The Australian National University, The University of Western Australia and in the Research Unit, Cultural Heritage Division, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in Sydney. He is currently Chair of the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) Group.

  • Laurie Wilkie, University of California, Berkeley

    Laurie Wilkie is an anthropological archaeologist whose research has focused on understanding 19th- and 20th-century life in the United States and Caribbean, combining documentary and material sources of evidence to understand the recent past. Through a focus on household archaeology, her work has focused upon two principal themes: how expressions of social difference, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, sex, socioeconomics and politics can be understood through the materiality of everyday life; and how a sense of material heritage has shaped human life in the recent past, and continues to do so today.

  • Alfredo González-Ruibal, Spanish National Research Council

    Alfredo González-Ruibal is Staff Scientist with the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). His research focuses on the archaeology of the recent past, with a special interest in conflict, capitalism, colonialism and dictatorship. He has conducted fieldwork related to these topics in Spain, Ethiopia and Equatorial Guinea. He is the editor of Reclaiming Archaeology: Beyond the Tropes of Modernity (London: Routledge, 2013).

  • Cornelius Holtorf, Linnaeus University

    Cornelius Holtorf is currently Professor of Archaeology at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. He is widely interested in the changing roles of archaeology and cultural heritage in present-day society. His current research interests include the archaeology of time travel, contemporary zoos as archaeological sites and nuclear waste as heritage of the future.

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2014-09-23

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Harrison, R., Wilkie, L., González-Ruibal, A., & Holtorf, C. (2014). Editorial. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 1(1), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.v1i1.1