Helle Vandkilde#
| Membership Number: | 5111 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | DENMARK |
| Homepage(s): | https://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/helle-vandkilde(3436ee39-dd2e-4438-b87c-8fbb9f4efffc).html |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-9326-7633 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2009 - current Professorial Chair, Dept. of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University (AU), DK
- 2013 - 2018 Director, Research Programme “Materials, Culture and Heritage” (MCH, AU, DK)
- 2014 - 2015 Visiting professor and fellowship DFG Exzellenzcluster Asien und Europa, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, D
- 2004 - 2009 Research Council Professor, Inst. of Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, AU, DK
- 2003 - 2004 Visiting Professor, Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte CAU-Kiel, D
- 1999 - current Docent (by title only), Dept. of Archaeology and Classical History, Lund University, SE
- 1998 - 2004 Postdoc. position, Dept. of Archaeology and Classical History, Lund University, SE
Fields of Scholarship
- Globalisation in contemporary Papua New Guinea
- Mobility, culture and change in Bronze Age Europe
- Afro-Eurasian Bronze Age as pre-modern globalisation
- Metals & society during the watershed from Stone Age to Bronze Age
- Minoan pithoi and storage economies
- Genocide before the state
- Bronze Age animism, myths and cults
- Warriors and warfare
Honours and Awards
- 2019 Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Lund University in Sweden (May 24th)
- 2017 Recipient, The Prehistoric Society’s Europa Prize for ‘Outstanding contribution to European prehistory’
- 2014 Admittee, Krak’s Blue Book for distinguished achievements (Danish Who's who). https://www.blaabog.dk
- 2014 ‘Ridder af Dannebrog’ for academic accomplishments (Her Majesty the Queen of Denmark)
- 2013 Elected member - Shanghai Archaeology Forum of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
- 2007 Elected member, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Academic Branch of German Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
- 2005 Recipient, Erik Westerby-prize for outstanding archaeological research
