UCL Senior Promotions success for Institute of Archaeology staff

New Professors

Gabriel (Gabe) Moshenska, who has been promoted to Professor of Public Archaeology, undertakes research on conflict archaeology and heritage, public and community archaeology and history and philosophy of archaeology with projects ranging from gas masks and ghost stories to internet memes and the contested reception of Milton’s theological writings in the nineteenth century. His fieldwork is focused on collaborative archaeology and heritage projects in Spain, Finland, Kenya, and the UK.

Gabe is the author of more than one hundred publications across several disciplines. His books include Life-Writing in the History of Archaeology: Critical Perspectives (2023, co-edited with Clare Lewis), Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain (2019), Key Concepts in Public Archaeology (edited, 2017), and Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence (2015, co-edited with Alfredo González-Ruibal). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Public Archaeology.

Gabe has been nominated for UCLU Student Choice Awards for Excellent Personal Tutoring (2023, 2022) as well as Inspiring Teaching Delivery (2022) and has held many administrative roles at the Institute of Archaeology. He is currently the Institute's Graduate Tutor for Research Students and joint Head of the Heritage Studies Section, a member of the Institute's Senior Management Team, and was previously the Deputy Chair of our Research Committee. 

Congratulations Gabe!

Corinna Riva, who has been promoted to Professor of Central Mediterranean Archaeology, undertakes research on the Iron Age, broadly conceived as the first half of the 1st millennium BC, of the central and west Mediterranean with a specific interest in Etruscan Italy and urbanism in all of its facets, socio-political, cultural and economic. Corinna is leading on field research at the south Etruscan urban settlement of Vulci, Italy, collaborating with specialists in geoarchaeology, ceramic analysis and geophysics.

Corinna was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship at the Max Weber Institute of Erfurt University (2021-2022), which allowed her to develop a new strand of research on pre-Roman religion and urbanism between southern Etruria and southeastern Spain across the full first millennium. She is the author of significant publications with books including A Short History of the Etruscans (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and The Urbanisation of Etruria: Funerary Practices and Social Change, 700–600 BC (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Corinna was part of an Institute team shortlisted for a UCL Provost's Education Award (2025) for improving the student experience, for improving infrastructure or processes that enhance the teaching and learning experience and was nominated for UCLU Student Choice Award for Excellent Personal Tutoring (2024). She has also held a number of administrative roles at the Institute, is currently the Second Year Tutor for Undergraduates and was previously the Chair of our Research Committee.

Congratulations Corinna!

New Associate Professor

Stuart Brookes, who has been promoted to Associate Professor in Medieval Archaeology, has research interests concerned with developing landscape approaches to understanding social complexity in early medieval Europe especially Britain during the period 400–1200 CE. He has published widely on the archaeology and landscape history of state formation, including surveys of early medieval military infrastructure and assembly places.

His recent books include Lordship and Landscape in East Anglia AD400-800: The royal centre at Rendlesham, Suffolk, and its contexts (2024, edited with Christopher Scull and Tom Williamson), Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650 (2021, co-authored with Stephen Mileson) and Polity and Neighbourhood in Early Medieval Europe (2019, edited with Julio Escalona Monge and Orri Vésteinsson). He is editor of the Antiquaries Journal.

Stuart is strongly committed to developing a cross-disciplinary methodology for historical archaeology, and has collaborated closely with place-name specialists and historians in Britain and internationally on several research projects and discussion groups. He is currently working on international projects exploring early medieval charters and perambulations, and beacons and military communications. 

Stuart has been nominated for UCLU Student Choice Awards for Active Student Partnership (2025), Inspiring Teaching Delivery (2024, 2022) and received a Faculty Education Award for Skills Development (2025). He is currently the Institute's Fieldwork Tutor and leads on several excavations in London and the South-East of England.

Congratulations Stuart!

This was the 8th round of promotions to be based on the new UCL Academic Careers Framework and saw 18 members of UCL academic staff from the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences gaining promotions for their outstanding contributions to research, education and enabling and leadership at UCL.

The UCL Academic Careers Framework is designed to support every type of academic career path, making sure that personal impact is measured consistently across UCL.

Promotions are effective from 1 October 2025.

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