Dr Gabriel Moshenska

Academic position: Associate Professor in Public Archaeology

Department: Archaeology

Biography:

Gabriel started at UCL as an undergraduate student in 2001 and has stayed ever since. He is a historical archaeologist and heritage researcher with a strong interest in conflict, intellectual history, and the public understanding of the past. As a researcher GabrieI runs or collaborates on a number of projects including fieldwork in Spain, Finland and Kenya.

Research Projects:

Gabriel has an ongoing project focusing on children's traumatic experiences of violent conflict, with a focus on Second World War Britain. He has published a monograph on this topic (2019) and a number of articles, and in his current work he continues to explore the connections between trauma, play, materiality and place-making in children's lives. Since 2020 he is a collaborator on a Finnish project on sensory and material memories that builds on aspects of my research.

Teaching:

Gabriel has developed teaching that draws on his research on children in conflict outlined above, but this constitutes just two lectures of a single ten-lecture module. This is part of his module ARCL0145 Archaeologies of Modern Conflict.