Dr Britt Baillie

Britt Baillie is a founding member of the Centre for Urban Conflicts Research at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Fellow at the Wits City Institute. Previously, she was the Research Lead for FuturePart, a Research Fellow on the University of Pretoria’s Capital Cities Institutional Research Theme, an Affiliated Lecturer at the Division of Archaeology (University of Cambridge), a Post-Doctoral Research Associate on the Conflict in Cities and the Contested State ESRC funded research project (University of Cambridge); a Post-Doctoral Researcher on the AHRC/NWO funded Landscapes of War, Trauma and Occupation project (University of Cambridge); an AHRC funded Early Career Researcher on the Cambridge Community Heritage Project, a Researcher Fellow at Vrije Universiteit University Amsterdam and the Director of Studies for Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse.  Dr. Baillie completed her PhD in Archaeology and Heritage Management at the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge in 2011. Her recent books include: Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday (Palgrave, 2013, co-edited with Wendy Pullan), African Heritage Challenges: Communities and Sustainable Development (Palgrave, 2020, co-edited with Marie-Louise Sørensen), and Synchronous Pasts: Transforming Heritage in the Former Yugoslavia (Palgrave, forthcoming, co-edited with Gruia Bădescu and Francesco Mazzuchelli).