Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
{{short description|Danish archaeologist}}
{{Infobox academic
| honorific_prefix = Prof
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FBA|FSA}}
| name = Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
| awards = European Archaeology Heritage Prize 2014
| thesis_title = The transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in Scandinavia : a study of the changes reflected by the bronzes from period 5 and 6 in Scandinavia
| thesis_year = 1984
| workplaces = University of Cambridge
Leiden University
| doctoral_students = Joanna Bruck
John Carman
Rebecca Haboucha
Thomas Torp Hansen
Raphaël Henkes
Kim Eileen Ruf
Joanna Sofaer
Donna Yates (professor)
}}
Marie Louise Stig Sørensen {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA|FSA}} (born 1954) is a Danish archaeologist and academic. She is Emeritus Professor of European Prehistory and Heritage Studies at the University of Cambridge{{Cite web|url=https://www.heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk/people/mlss|title=Prof Marie Louise Stig Sorensen — Cambridge Heritage Research Centre|last=bkd20@cam.ac.uk|website=www.heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk|date=26 April 2018 |language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}} and Professor of Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Leiden. Her research focuses on Bronze Age Europe, heritage, and archaeological theory.
Early life
Sørensen was born in Denmark in 1954. She graduated from the University of Aarhus in 1981,{{Cite web|url=https://medarbejdere.au.dk/strategi/tilbagevendende-events/prisoverraekkelser/prisoverraekkelser/modtagerne-af-rigmor-og-carl-holst-knudsens-videnskabspris/marie-louise-stig-soerensen/|title=Marie Louise Stig Sørensen|last=15713@au.dk|website=medarbejdere.au.dk|language=da|access-date=2019-01-06}} and later received a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1985 on the subject of the Bronze Age to Iron Age transition in Scandinavia.{{Cite web|url=https://trowelblazers.com/marie-louise-stig-sorensen/|title=Marie Louise Stig Sørensen {{!}} TrowelBlazers|date=22 March 2017 |access-date=2019-01-06}}
Career
Sørensen was appointed at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge in 1987.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/people/marie-louise-sorensen|title=Professor Marie Louise Sørensen PhD|last=College|first=Jesus|website=Jesus College University of Cambridge|language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}} In 2011 she was appointed a Reader at the University of Cambridge, and in 2012 she became a Professor in Bronze Age studies at the University of Leiden.{{Cite web|url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/marie-sorensen|title=Marie Sorensen|website=Leiden University|language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}} She is a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge where she is Director of Studies in Archaeology and in Human, Social, and Political Sciences.{{Cite web|url=https://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/people/marie-louise-sorensen|title=Professor Marie Louise Sørensen PhD|last=College|first=Jesus|website=Jesus College University of Cambridge|language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}}
She has received research funding from a range of research councils, including the Cultural Heritage and the Re-construction of Identities after Conflict project, and the Leverhulme Trust-funded Changing Beliefs of the Human Body project.{{Cite web|url=http://cinba.net/people/stig-sorensen/|title=Dr Marie Louise Stig Sørensen {{!}} CinBA|website=cinba.net|access-date=2019-01-06}} Sørensen is undertaking excavations at the Bronze Age tell at Százhalombatta, Hungary,{{Cite web|url=http://sax.matricamuzeum.hu/|title=Százhalombatta Archaeological Expedition (SAX)|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-06}} and at an early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde.{{Cite web|url=https://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/evans358|title=Finding Alcatrazes and early Luso-African settlement on Santiago Island, Cape Verde {{!}} Antiquity Journal|website=antiquity.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-06}}
Honours and awards
Sørensen was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA) on 10 October 2010.{{cite web |url=https://www.sal.org.uk/our-fellows/directory/prof-marie-sorensen/ |title=Prof Marie Sørensen |publisher=Society of Antiquaries of London |accessdate=13 July 2020}} In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.{{cite web |title=Professor Marie Louise Stig Sørensen FBA |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/marie-louise-stig-sorensen-fba/ |website=The British Academy |access-date=11 August 2022 |language=en}}
Sørensen was awarded the 16th European Archaeology Heritage Prize in 2014, in recognition of her exceptional contributions to heritage preservation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Navigation_Prizes_and_Awards/EAA_Heritage_Prize.aspx|title=EAA Heritage Prize|website=www.e-a-a.org|access-date=2019-01-06}} She gave the Felix Neubergh lecture at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and received the Rigmor and Carl Holst-Knudsens Science Prize from Aarhus University in 2014. In 2019 she was elected as a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters.
Selected publications
- Sørensen M.L.S. 1997. Reading Dress: the construction of social categories and identities in Bronze Age Europe. Journal of European Archaeology 5(1), 93–114.
- Diaz-Andreu M. and Sørensen M.L.S. 1998. Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology. London: Routledge.
- Sørensen M.L.S. 2000. Gender Archaeology. Cambridge: Polity Press.
- Sørensen M.L.S. 2009. Gender, Material Culture and Identity in the Viking Age Diaspora. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 5, 245–261.
- Sorensen M.L.S. and Rebay-Salisbury K. 2009. Landscapes of the body: burials of the Middle Bronze Age in Hungary. European Journal of Archaeology 11(1), 49–74. DOI: 10.1177/1461957108101241
- Rebay-Salisbury, K., Sorensen, M.L.S and Hughes, J. (eds.), 2010. Body Parts and Bodies Whole: Changing Relations and Meanings. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
- Sørensen M.L.S. 2010. Households. In T. Earle (ed.), Organizing Bronze Age Societies. The Mediterranean, Central Europe & Scandinavia Compared. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 122–154.
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