Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Leicester
Marianne Hem Eriksen is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester, and she currently leads the ERC-funded project Body-Politics: Death, Personhood and Sexuality in the Iron and Viking Ages. Her research explores the intersection of architecture, bodies, and power in late prehistoric and early medieval Scandinavia. She has held positions at the University of Oslo and the University of Cambridge, and she was awarded the 2022 Philip Leverhulme Prize and named an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker in 2023.
