Ballot Archive

10 Aug 2023

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Liliana Janik

Academic degrees, honours etc.

BA/MA in Archaeology University of Torun, Poland, 1986 PhD in Archaeology University of Cambridge, 1997

Profession or occupation

Assistant Director of Research, Dept. of Archaeology, Cambridge

Grounds for election

Dr Liliana Janik is Assistant Director in Research at the Department of Archaeology, Cambridge, a Fellow and Graduate Tutor at Girton College, and is one of the founding members of the Cambridge Centre for Heritage Studies. She is a specialist in art and archaeology, and since the early 1990s has undertaken research on museum collections and fieldwork in Russia, in particular the Zalavruga prehistoric rock art complex in Russian Karelia. In 2018, this led to a major exhibition at the Bangudae Museum, South Korea, which has depictions of whaling common with Zalavruga. She also works in Japan, is a member of the Shinano River Project and is conducting research into Jomon Period figurines. She has published widely, including her 2020 volume, The Archaeology of Seeing, exploring relationships between neuroscience, art and archaeology. This theme she developed at the 2017 Cambridge conference on Art and the Brain, published as a special issue of Open Archaeology.

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