Hannah Jingwen Lee

I studied Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge from 2012-2015, where modules shared with the Classics department sparked my interest in Aegean Prehistory and the archaeology of the wider Eastern Mediterranean. Following my BA, I was selected for the Knossos Curatorial Internship run by the British School at Athens, where I assisted in cataloguing artefacts from the School’s Knossos excavations using Axiell’s EMu software. 

My master’s degree in Human Osteology and Funerary Archaeology from Sheffield helped nurture a long-held fascination with human biology, bioarchaeology and mortuary archaeology. In keeping with the Mediterranean theme, I studied material from Cyprus for my MSc thesis, applying funerary taphonomy methodology to a commingled, multi-stage burial assemblage from a Late Bronze Age chamber tomb. In order to help develop the forensic aspect of these transferable skills, I joined Cranfield University’s Recovery and Identification of Conflict Casualties field team in 2019, and hope to begin embarking on deployments once the global situation allows. 

After a stint in the HE non-profit sector, I was awarded a PhD studentship by the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities (AHRC WRoCAH) and began my PhD studies at Sheffield in 2021. My project takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of identity and personhood through analysis of a Bronze and Early Iron Age sample of human osteological material from Ancient Corinth, Greece.