Rebecca Gowland

Rebecca Gowland
OccupationBioarchaeologist
Academic background
Alma materDurham University
ThesisAge as an aspect of social identity in fourth-to-sixth- century AD England : the archaeological funerary evidence (2002)
Doctoral advisorSam Lucy and Andrew Millard
Academic work
InstitutionsDurham University

Rebecca Gowland is a bioarchaeologist. She is a Professor of Archaeology at Durham University.

Education

Gowland studied for an undergraduate degree at Durham University. She then completed a master's degree at the University of Sheffield before returning to Durham, where she completed her PhD in 2002.[1][2]

Career

After completing her PhD, Gowland undertook post-doctoral research at the University of Sheffield and University of Dundee. Gowland held a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. She was appointed at Durham University in 2006 as a lecturer in Bioarchaeology.[2][3] She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and Professor in 2019.[3][1]

She has received funding from the British Academy,[4] and The Wenner-Gren Foundation.[5] Gowland has been Associate Editor of the journal Antiquity since 2018.[2][1] She is an Associate Editor at Bioarchaeology International,[6] and the Treasurer of The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past.[7]

Her research interests include health and the life course in the Roman World,[8][9] palaeopathology, social perceptions of the physically impaired and the inter-relationship between the human skeleton and social identity. Gowland has co-edited The Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, with Chris Knüsel (2006) and The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology. Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (2019) with Siân Halcrow.[1] She has co-authored Human Identity and Identification with Tim Thompson (2013).

Selected publications

  • Gowland, R.L., and A. G. Western. Morbidity in the marshes: Using spatial epidemiology to investigate skeletal evidence for malaria in Anglo‐Saxon England (AD 410–1050). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147.2: 301–311.
  • Gowland, R. L., Chamberlain, A. & Redfern, R. C. (2014). On the brink of being: re-evaluating infanticide and infant burial in Roman Britain. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 96: 69–88.
  • Gowland, R. L. (2015). Entangled lives: Implications of the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis for bioarchaeology and the life course. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158(4): 530–540.
  • Gowland, R. L. (2016). Elder abuse: evaluating the potentials and problems of diagnosis in the archaeological record. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 26(3): 514–523.
  • Gowland, R. L. (2017). Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach. Britannia 48: 175–194.
  • Gowland, R. L., Caffell, A. C., Newman, S., Levene, A. & Holst, M. (2018). Broken Childhoods: Rural and Urban Non-Adult Health during the Industrial Revolution in Northern England (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries). Bioarchaeology International 2(1): 44–62.

References

Scholia has a profile for Rebecca Gowland (Q47091492).
  1. ^ a b c d "Professor R Gowland - Durham University". www.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  2. ^ a b c "Meet the Team | Antiquity Journal". antiquity.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  3. ^ a b "Rebecca Gowland". The Conversation. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  4. ^ "Small Research Grants - Past Awards: 2013-14". The British Academy. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  5. ^ "Gowland, Rebecca Louise | The Wenner-Gren Foundation". www.wennergren.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  6. ^ "Editorial Board". journals.upress.ufl.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  7. ^ "The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past". www.sscip.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-03-14.
  8. ^ Gowland, Rebecca (2017). "Embodied Identities in Roman Britain: A Bioarchaeological Approach". Britannia. 48: 177–194. doi:10.1017/S0068113X17000125. ISSN 0068-113X.
  9. ^ Gowland, Rebecca; Redfern, Rebecca (2010-09-01). "Childhood Health in the Roman World: Perspectives from the Centre and Margin of the Empire". Childhood in the Past. 3 (1): 15–42. doi:10.1179/cip.2010.3.1.15. ISSN 1758-5716. S2CID 129856590.