Ballot Archive

24 Jun 2021

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Alison Klevnäs

Academic degrees, honours etc.

PhD, MA, BA, Elected member, Internationales Sachsensymposion

Profession or occupation

researcher and Research school co-ordinator

Grounds for election

Dr Alison Klevnäs is a specialist in early medieval, Anglo-Saxon and Viking mortuary archaeology with a Ph.D from Girton College Cambridge University, who is a researcher and Research school co-ordinator at the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University in Sweden. She has published extensively including Klevnäs, A. M., 2013. Whodunnit? Grave Robbery in Anglo-Saxon England and the Merovingian Kingdoms. BAR International Series 2582. Oxford: Archaeopress; Klevnäs, A. & Hedenstierna-Jonson, C. eds., 2015. Own and be owned: archaeological approaches to the concept of possession. Stockholm Studies in Archaeology; Klevnäs, A. 2020. ‘Robbed in Antiquity’: grave opening in seventh-century East Kent – stimulated by cross-channel influences? Archaeologia Cantiana 140, 1-18; Klevnäs, A. 2016. 'Imbued with the essence of the owner': personhood and possessions in the reopening and reworking of Viking Age burials. European Journal of Archaeology, 19:3, 456-476.

Signatories

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