Amy Bogaard


Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford.

Education

Bogaard earned a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2002, supervised by Glynis Jones.

Career

Bogaard was appointed Lecturer of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. She was awarded the Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award in 2015.
She currently is a stipendiary lecturer at St Peter's College, and an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
Recent work has investigated the relationship between agricultural practices and inequality.
In 2013, Bogaard was awarded an ERC starter grant for the project The Agricultural Origins of Urban Civilization. In 2018, Bogaard was part of a team to win an ERC Synergy grant for the project Exploring the Dynamics and Causes of Prehistoric Land Use Change in the Cradle of European Farming. She is a member of the ERC-funded FEEDSAX Project.
Bogaard was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020.

Selected publications

Books