Jennifer Carey
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History
About me
I am a doctoral student in the Archaeology department here at Lund, researching the bog body phenomenon and human-bog relations at the intersections of archaeology, environmental humanities, critical plant studies, posthumanism and more-than-humanism. Originally from the north-east of England, I then lived in Wales before moving to Copenhagen in 2017.
About my research project
Deeply influenced by the green/blue of environmental humanities and non-euro/western knowledge(s), my research centres around the idea of a brown humanities of peat, moss and mud, and the development of a critical peat/bog studies. This thinking-with peat and moss aims to critically engage with ideas of what an anthropo(de)centric and distinctly more-than-human bog body research could look like in practice in archaeology, in order to embrace ambiguity, multivocality and multivalence. My other interests include: forensics, bryology, critical plant studies, vegetal ontologies, ethnobotany, ethics, archaeological and critical theory, wetlands, peats and bogs.