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Dr Corisande Fenwick
Associate Professor
Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square
Institute of Archaeology
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2015
Research summary
Research Interests
Roman, Late Antique & Islamic archaeology; North Africa and Mediterranean archaeology; Empires & Imperialism; Landscape studies; Death and burial; Spatial analysis
Teaching summary
Course Co-ordinator: ARCL0064 Selected topics in the archaeology of the Later Roman Empire
Course Co-ordinator: ARCL0083 The Early Islamic World
Course Co-ordinator: ARCL0167 The Transformation of the Roman Mediterranean
Course Co-ordinator: ARCL0178 Themes and Debates in Islamic Archaeology
Course Co-ordinator (with Alice Stevenson): ARCL0199 Heritage Ethics & Archaeological Practice in the Middle East and Mediterranean
Education
- University College London
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), ATQ03 - Recognised by the HEA as a Fellow | 2017
- Stanford University
- Doctorate, Doctor of Philosophy | 2013
- Stanford University
- Other higher degree, Master of Arts | 2011
- University College London
- First Degree, Bachelor of Arts | 2006
Biography
Corisande received her BA in Archaeology, Classics and Classical Art from the Institute of Archaeology. She then moved to the United States, where she gained an MA in Classics and a PhD in Anthropology at Stanford University in 2013. Before returning to the Institute in 2015, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Brown University and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Leicester. She has been awarded fellowships from various bodies, including the Leverhulme Trust, British Academy, Social Science Research Council, Dumbarton Oaks, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Loeb Foundation for her research and is a Fellow of the Society for Antiquaries.
Corisande is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology (OUP, 2020) and the Aghlabids and their Neighbours (Brill, 2017) and has published many articles on different aspects of North Africa’s late antique and Islamic history. She currently co-directs two major field projects: the Bulla Regia Archaeological Project in Tunisia (2014-) with Dr Moheddine Chaouali (Institut National du Patrimoine) and the Medieval Volubilis project in Morocco (2017-) with Prof Elizabeth Fentress and Prof Hassan Limane (INSAP), as well as being the medieval specialist on the Wadi Draa Project in Morocco (2015-) and the Co-PI of the capacity-building project Training in Action for members of the Tunisian and Libyan antiquities services. She is Honorary Secretary and a Council Member of the Society for Libyan Studies.