Britt Baillie is joining the Department as an Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies and Historic Archaeology. She will be teaching on the Sustainable Heritage Management and Historic Archaeology Masters courses as well as to teaching at the BA level. Her work focuses on the heritage and archaeology of conflict. This summer she joined colleagues to excavate in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw in July to survey/test pit Second World War and Cold War heritage sites in arctic Finland in August. She is co-Editor in Chief of the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict and series co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Heritage and Conflict book series. She is currently part of the Horizon funded DIGHT-NET project (https://dight-net.tlu.ee/) which seeks to explore how to create sustainable digitization solutions for the Juri Lotman and Umberto Eco archives. She completed her PhD at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, and has previously held positions at the University of Amsterdam, University of the Witswatersrand, University of Pretoria, Vrije Universitiet Amsterdam, and the University of Cambridge.

Contact: 
Britt Alexandra Baillie
School of Culture and Society - Department of Archeology and Heritage Studies
Moesgård Allé 20
8270 Højbjerg
au773602@cas.au.dk