Gunita Zariņa#

Membership Number:6281
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY
Elected:2022
Main Country of Residence:LATVIA
Homepage(s):http://lvi.lv
ORCID:0000-0002-7769-4341


Present and Previous Positions
  • Since 2009 Senior researcher in Repository of Bioarchaeological material, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia
  • Since 2007 Head of Repository of Bioarchaeological material, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia
  • 2003 - 2009 Researcher, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia
  • 1997 - 2007 Head of Anthropological Repository, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia
  • 1992 - 1997 Junior researcher, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia (formerly Institute of Latvian History at the Academy of Sciences of Latvia)
  • 1982 - 1992 Laboratory assistant, Institute of History at the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR

Fields of Scholarship
  • Historical demography
  • Bioarchaeology
  • Palaeodemography
  • Palaeoecology

Honours and Awards
  • Since 2020 Vice Chair of Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
  • Since 2018 full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
  • Awards
    • 2021 Latvian Academy of Sciences Award for Achievements in Science – 2021, received for encyclopedia on archeology „Handbook of Latvian Archeology”.
    • 2019 Latvian Academy of Sciences Award for Achievements in Science – 2019, received for collective monograph „Migration of Cultures in Latvia”.
    • 2011 Latvian Academy of Sciences Fricis Brīvzemnieks Award, received for a significant contribution in anthropology, and for the book „Palaeodemography of the inhabitants of Latvia, 7th BC – 1800 AD.”

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