Dr Susan Oosthuizen FSA

Career

Susan Oosthuizen has been involved in lifelong learning since 1985. An archaeologist, she directs programmes in the historic environment (landscape and garden history/ archaeology) at the Institute. Her undergraduate degree in Archaeology and History was taken at the University of Southampton; she holds an MA from SOAS (University of London), and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where her research on Anglo-Saxon landscapes bridged archaeology, history and historical geography. She is attached to the University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a former President of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

Dr Oosthuizen also holds a PGCE (University of Cambridge) and has a strong interest in community engagement in higher education. She is currently Vice-Chair of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her work has included numerous externally-funded outreach projects, and the direction of community education and outreach for the Institute (2005-8). She received a National Award for excellence in History Teaching in Higher Education in 2003. She will deliver the 2012 Hoskins Lecture in Leicester on Saturday 26th May 2012.

Teaching and research supervision areas

Dr Oosthuizen teaches in landscape and field archaeology, including garden archaeology, with a special interest in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval landscapes, and in research skills. She supervises full-time and part-time postgraduate students in the University, and is always pleased to hear and discuss potential research topics with intending applicants.

Research interests and conferences

• Anglo-Saxon and medieval landscapes, with an emphasis on field systems and settlement
• Garden archaeology
• Water management in the medieval peat fens

Links

Landscape History Courses at ICE

Courses Taught

Recent Publications

• Forthcoming. Review: 'Della Hooke: Trees in Anglo-Saxon England', Agricultural History Review
• Forthcoming.Review: 'Paul Cullen, Richard Jones and David Parsons: Thorps in a Changing Landscape', Medieval Archaeology
• Forthcoming. Review: Historical Atlases of Hertfordshire, Kent and Sussex, Medieval Settlement Research
  
• Forthcoming. Archaeology, Common Rights and the Origins of Englishness
• 2012. ‘Cambridgeshire and the peat fen: medieval rural settlement and commerce, c.AD900 –1300’, in N. Christie and P. Stamper (eds.) Medieval Rural Settlement Britain and Ireland, AD 800-1600. Oxford, Windgather: 206-224
• 2011. ‘Anglo-Saxon fields’, in H. Hamerow, D. Hinton,and S. Crawford (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, Oxford, Oxford University Press: 377-401
• 2011. ‘Archaeology, common rights, and the origins of Anglo-Saxon identity’. Early Medieval Europe, 19, 2: 153-181.
• 2010. ‘A note concerning the distribution of two- and three-field systems in south Cambridgeshire before about 1350’, Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report 25: 21-31
  
• 2010. ‘Medieval field systems and settlement nucleation: common or separate origins?, in N. Higham (ed.), The Landscapes of Anglo-Saxon England. Woodbridge, Boydell & Brewer: 108-131.
• 2010. Review: ‘Guy Beresford: Caldecote The Development and Desertion of a Hertfordshire Village’, Antiquaries Journal 90: 491-2.
• 2010. ‘The Old Rectory, Kingston: A short note on its origins’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 99: 139-44.
• 2010. Review: 'Tom Williamson: The Origins of Hertfordshire' Medieval Settlement Research 25:81-2.
• 2010. Review: ‘Tom Williamson: The Origins of Hertfordshire’, Agricultural History Review.
• 2009. 'The deserted medieval settlements of Cambridgeshire: A gazetteer'. Medieval Settlement Research Group Annual Report 24: 14-19
• 2009. Review: ‘Tom Williamson: Rabbits, Warrens and Archaeology’, Antiquaries Journal 89: 448-9.
• 2009. Beyond the Lecture Hall: Universities and community engagement from the middle ages to the present day. Edited with Dr Peter Cunningham and Dr Richard Taylor. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.
• 2009. Drowned and Drained: Exploring fenland records and landscape. Edited with Dr Frances Willmoth. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.
• See full list of publications