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Dr Corisande Fenwick
Associate Professor
Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square
Institute of Archaeology
- Joined UCL
- 1st Sep 2015
Research summary
Dr Corisande Fenwick is Associate Professor in Mediterranean Archaeology. She is also Director of the Society for Libyan Studies, a British International Research Institute sponsored by the British Academy. Her current research focuses on empire and everyday life in the late antique and Islamic world, particularly North Africa. She is primarily interested in the formation of early medieval states and empires and above all how people experienced the complex regime changes that characterised the Mediterranean 500-1000CE and what it was like to live under Byzantine and Muslim rule
Corisande is currently PI of the ERC-funded project EVERYDAY ISLAM- Becoming Muslim: Cultural Change, Everyday Life and State Formation in early Islamic North Africa (600-1000), Co-PI of the AHRC-DFG funded project ISLAMAFR: Conquest, Ecology and Economy in Islamic North Africa (with Moheddine Chaouali and Philipp von Rummel), Co-PI of the Society for Libyan Studies flagship project ‘Bulla Regia: Mobility, Identity and Community in Christian North Africa (with Moheddine Chaouali), Co-Director of the INSAP-UCL Medieval Volubilis Project (with Elizabeth Fentress and Hassan Limane) and Co-I of the AHRC funded OASCIV: The Making of Oasis Civilisation in the Moroccan Sahara (with David Mattingly, Youssef Bokbot and Martin Sterry). Prior to this, she was Co-PI of the British Council funded capacity-building project Training in Action for members of the Tunisian and Libyan antiquities services.
She co-ordinates the Islamic Archaeology Network and organises an annual Islamic Archaeology Day with SOAS which has become the main event for Islamic archaeologists in the UK and beyond. She also edits the Brepols book series Studies in the Archaeology of the Islamic World and welcomes proposals for books, archaeological monographs or edited volumes.
Teaching summary
Corisande is currently on research leave, however, she normally teaches the following modules:
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
- Higher Education Academy
- Other Postgraduate qualification (including professional), Senior Fellow of the Higher Education A |
- 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 UCL Institute of Archaeology. She then moved to California, where she gained an MA in Classics and a PhD in Anthropology at Stanford University in 2013. Before returning to UCL 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 research grants and fellowships from various bodies, including the European Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, British Academy and Social Science Research Council and is a Fellow of the Society for Antiquaries.
Her recent publications include the monograph Early Islamic North Africa (Bloomsbury, 2020) and the co-edited Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology (OUP, 2020) and Aghlabids and their Neighbours: Art and Material Culture in Ninth-Century North Africa (Brill, 2017)