Bettina Arnold
Office: Sabin 229
Phone: (414) 229-4583
e-mail: barnold@uwm.edu
Web Page: www.uwm.edu/~barnold/
Degree: Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Interests:
Bettina Arnold is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, and Co-Director of the Center for Celtic Studies and editor of the Center's on-line journal, e-Keltoi.
Her research focuses on pre-Roman Iron Age Europe, mortuary ritual and gender. The "Landscape of Ancestors" project is a long-term investigation of the mortuary and social landscapes associated with the early Iron Age Heuneburg hillfort (see www.uwm.edu/~barnold/arch/). An additional research focus involves the history of archaeology, especially the symbiosis between archaeology and politics, and the role played by archaeological research in the construction of nationalist narratives.
Selected Publications:
2004 Dealing with the devil: the Faustian bargain of archaeology under dictatorship. In Michael Galaty and Charles Watkinson (eds.) Archaeology Under Dictatorship, pp. 191-212. New York: Kluwer/Plenum.
2002 A landscape of ancestors: the space and place of death in Iron Age West-Central Europe. In The Space and Place of Death, edited by Helaine Silverman and David Small, pp. 129-144. AP3A No. 11. Arlington: Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association.
2002 "Sein und Werden": Gender as Process in Mortuary Ritual. In In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches, edited by Sarah Nelson and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, pp. 239-256. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
2002 Justifying genocide: the supporting role of archaeology in "ethnic cleansing". In Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide, Alex Hinton (ed), pp. 95-116. University of California Press.
2001 Gender and the Archaeology of Death, Bettina Arnold and Nancy L. Wicker (eds). Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
1999 From the Ground Up: Beyond Gender Theory in Archaeology, Nancy L. Wicker and Bettina Arnold (eds). BAR International Series 812. Oxford: Archaeopress.
1999 "Drinking the Feast": alcohol and the legitimation of power in Celtic Europe. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 9(1): 71-93.
1995 Celtic Chiefdom, Celtic State: The Evolution of Complex Social Systems in Prehistoric Europe, Bettina Arnold and D. Blair Gibson (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
1990 The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany. Antiquity 64(244):464-478.
