Academics

Welcome

I am a Professorial Fellow in European Archaeology. I teach students in the Archaeology and Anthropology degree and supervise graduate students within the College.

Research Interests

• Human links with the material world, the long term history of creativity, intelligence, the emotions, and aesthetics;
• the archaeology of colonisation in the recent past, as well as in older periods such as the setting up of the Roman empire;
• late Prehistoric periods in Europe from the late Bronze Age to AD 400. Celtic art and other aspects of material culture;
• issues of identity, especially what it means to be English;
• the history of museums, their collections, archaeology and anthropology as disciplines.

Recent Publications

• Gosden, C, Larson, F and Petch, A, Knowing Things : exploring the collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2007)
• Edwards, E, Gosden, C and Phillips, R (eds), Senisble Objects : material culture, colonialism, museums (Berg, Oxford, 2006)
• Gosden, C, Robson, E and Treadwell, L, Who Owns Objects? (Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2006)
• Gosden, C., Archaeology and Colonialism (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
• DeMarrais, E C, Gosden, C and Renfrew, C, Rethinking Materiality : the engagement of mind with the material world (McDonald Monograph Series, Cambridge, 2004)
• Gosden, C., Prehistory : A very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2003)
• Gosden, C and Knowles, C, Collecting colonialism : material culture and colonial change in Papua New Guinea (Berg, Oxford, 2001)
• Gosden, C, Archaeology and Anthropology : a changing relationship (Routledge, London, 1999)
• Gosden, C, Social Being and Time : an archaeological perspective (Blackwell, Oxford, 1994)

Academic Biography

• University Lecturer in World Archaeology and Curator of Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. Fellow of St Cross College. (1994 - 2006)
• Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University (1992 - 1993)
• Visiting Scholar, Department of Archaeology and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University (1991)
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, Southampton University (1990)
• Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University (1986 - 1992)