Durham University

Graduate Student, Archaeology

PhD student

Ustinov

Thesis Title: Image and Performance, Agency and Ideology: Human Figurative Representation in Anglo-Saxon Funerary Art, AD 400 – 750

About

BACKGROUND
I completed my BA (with honours) in Archaeology at the University of Chester and received the Blue Coat Archaeology and History Prize 2008. I completed my MA in Historical Archaeology at Durham in 2009 and in the Autumn of 2009, I received a full AHRC award to undertake a PhD at Durham University, England.

CURRENT RESEARCH
Building on research interests accrued during my MA, my doctoral research investigates the use and role of representational art of the human image on  fifth- to eighth- century grave goods in coastal eastern England (Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk).

I have a breadth of interests but I am  particularly interested in theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches to burial archaeology, Anglo-Saxon funerary customs and traditions, elite performative displays, archaeology of the senses and the role of art within contexts of the living and the dead.

TEACHING
At Durham University I also contribute to the following:
- MA in Historical Archaeology module ‘Death & Burial in Anglo-Saxon England’
- 3rd year undergraduate module ‘Death & Burial in Anglo-Saxon England’
- 1st year undergraduate module ‘PGRs Learning Enhancement Workshops’

RESEARCH GROUPS
Durham Medieval Archaeologists (DMA)
Ritual, Religion, Belief and Place (RRBP) at Durham University

CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
I am running a postgraduate, multidisciplinary workshop at Durham University, Sat 19th May 2012, entitled 'Body, Corporeality and Identity' with keynote speaker Prof. Chris Shilling. A call for papers has been circulated and the deadline for abstracts and RSVP is 20th April 2012, for further information please contact me at l.m.brundle@durham.ac.uk

PAST ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
- Committee Member of the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) November 2010 – present.
- Chairperson of Durham Medieval Archaeologists December 2009 – December 2010. The DMA led a successful seminar series: ‘DMA Research Seminar Series, Current Research Projects in Northern and Eastern Britain AD 400 – 1600’ from May to December 2010.
- Committee member for Liberi: Medieval and Renaissance Postgraduate Discussion Group, September 2009 – July 2010. A multidisciplinary student-led postgraduate discussion group, an affiliate of the Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Durham University.

EDUCATION/OUTREACH
- Archaeology outreach project at Witton Gilbert Primary School, County Durham, March 2012.
- Coordinator of the DMA exhibition at the St Margaret’s Community Medieval Fair, Crossgate, Durham. Community Medieval Day 5th June 2010.

EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES
- Voluntary assistant at the North East Portable Antiquity Scheme (PAS) – 12th October 2009  –  December 2011.

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