Dr Gilly Carr is a University Associate Professor in Archaeology with academic responsibility for Archaeology at the Institute of Continuing Education.
She also has additional responsibility for programmes in Heritage Studies, Holocaust Studies, Anthropology, Egyptology and Classical Archaeology. She is a member of the University of Cambridge's Department of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and is a Partner of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre. Gilly is also a Fellow and Director of Studies at St Catharine's College.
In 2020, Gilly won the European Heritage Prize, awarded by the European Association of Archaeologists.
Since 2006 Gilly has been working in the field of Conflict Archaeology, Heritage Studies and POW Archaeology. This research has been funded by, variously, the British Academy, the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Société Jersiaise, hte International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and the EVZ Foundation (Germany).
Gilly has collaborated in a number of heritage projects. She is currently chairing a five-year international project for the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on Holocaust and Roma genocide sites at risk. Her most recent museum exhibition, ‘On British Soil: Nazi Persecution in the Channel Islands’ was on at the Wiener Library for the study of the Holocaust and Genocide from October 2017 to March 2018. It moved to Guernsey Museum in 2019 and will be on display in Caen, France, in 2021. Previous exhibitions have included 'Occupied Behind Barbed Wire', which was shown at Jersey and Guernsey Museums, and which focused on the art and artefacts made by islanders interned in German civilian internment camps during WWII. She has also recently worked on a Resistance Trail for Jersey, a reinterpretation of the Occupation Tapestry Gallery for the 70th anniversary of Liberation, and has headed a digital heritage project called the Frank Falla Archive. In 2016 Gilly joined the UK delegation of IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance).
Dr Carr teaches in a number of areas within archaeology. Topics include: Conflict Archaeology, Dark Heritage, Iron Age Britain, Introduction to Archaeology, Heritage Studies and Britain and the Holocaust. She also teaches on the Postgraduate Certificate on Britain and the Holocaust. Gilly also supervises a range of dissertations at Certificate, Diploma and Advanced Diploma level and, at the Department of Archaeology, at MPhil and PhD level.
