Bowden, Ross (Dr.)
Ross Bowden is an Australian cultural anthropologist. His main interests are in the art, religions and history of societies in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea. He has published four books on the Kwoma of the middle Sepik (including a dictionary) and one on the neighbouring Kaunga-speaking Yalaku. His two most recent books are Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Lexington Books, 2022) and The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik (Sean Kingston Publishing, 2023).
Brady, Niall (Dr.)
Niall Brady is the founding director of the Archaeological Diving Company, Ireland’s premier maritime archaeological consultancy, and between 2002 and 2010 he was project director of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. Main research fields: landscape archaeology, medieval settlement, agrarian economy and technology, maritime archaeology, industrial archaeology.
Brandsen, A. (Dr.)
Alex Brandsen is a digital archaeologist specialising in text mining and machine learning. He finalised his PhD in 2022 and is currently working as a postdoc at Leiden University, where he is creating an intelligent search engine for archaeological texts. He has been an organiser of the Digital Archaeology Group for 4 years, and has recently joined the CAA-NL-FL local chapter as Communications Officer.
Braun, Holger (Dr.)
Although Dr. Holger Braun (b 1973) originally qualified as an architect, he has been fascinated by the art of New Guinea ever since he was introduced to it by a teacher when he was only 8 years old. This fascination eventually resulted in a doctorate in cultural anthropology and art history at Heidelberg University and the publication of his first book, Zwischensphären (‘Interspheres: The Structure of Cult and Art in South New Guinea‘, 2013), an in-depth examination of mythology, cult and art in South New Guinea.
In his second book The Secret Signs in South New Guinea Art he applies this innovative theoretical framework to enable readers to see the definitive icons of South New Guinea art in a new light by revealing the symbolic meaning of their design in accordance to their use in the great secret cults that dominated pre-contact societies and still exercise considerable power today.
Brigand, Robin (Dr.)
Robin Brigand received a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Universities of Franche-Comté (Besançon, France) and Padua (Italia). He is currently a post-doctorate researcher at UMR 8215 Trajectoires and UMR 7218 LAVUE (Paris, France). His studies on the spatial impact of former societies focus – using various scales – on site systems and their environments, settlement patterns, raw material acquisition and distribution, landscape dynamics, etc.
Bright, Alistair (Dr.)
Bright received his Ph.D. in Caribbean archaeology. His research interests lie in Amerindian history from pre-Colonial to Colonial times. He has extensive undergraduate and graduate teaching experience, from general overview courses to specialised thematic research seminars.
Brinkgreve, Francine (Dr.)
Francine Brinkgreve is curator for the Insular Southeast Asia collection at the National Museum of World Cultures, which includes Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. During her study Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, she specialized in the cultures of Indonesia.
Bowden, Ross (Dr.)
Ross Bowden is an Australian cultural anthropologist. His main interests are in the art, religions and history of societies in the Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea. He has published four books on the Kwoma of the middle Sepik (including a dictionary) and one on the neighbouring Kaunga-speaking Yalaku. His two most recent books are Art and Creativity in a New Guinea Society: The Kwoma in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Lexington Books, 2022) and The Yalaku: History and Warfare in the Middle Sepik (Sean Kingston Publishing, 2023).
Brady, Niall (Dr.)
Niall Brady is the founding director of the Archaeological Diving Company, Ireland’s premier maritime archaeological consultancy, and between 2002 and 2010 he was project director of the Discovery Programme’s Medieval Rural Settlement Project. Main research fields: landscape archaeology, medieval settlement, agrarian economy and technology, maritime archaeology, industrial archaeology.
Brandsen, A. (Dr.)
Alex Brandsen is a digital archaeologist specialising in text mining and machine learning. He finalised his PhD in 2022 and is currently working as a postdoc at Leiden University, where he is creating an intelligent search engine for archaeological texts. He has been an organiser of the Digital Archaeology Group for 4 years, and has recently joined the CAA-NL-FL local chapter as Communications Officer.
Braun, Holger (Dr.)
Although Dr. Holger Braun (b 1973) originally qualified as an architect, he has been fascinated by the art of New Guinea ever since he was introduced to it by a teacher when he was only 8 years old. This fascination eventually resulted in a doctorate in cultural anthropology and art history at Heidelberg University and the publication of his first book, Zwischensphären (‘Interspheres: The Structure of Cult and Art in South New Guinea‘, 2013), an in-depth examination of mythology, cult and art in South New Guinea.
In his second book The Secret Signs in South New Guinea Art he applies this innovative theoretical framework to enable readers to see the definitive icons of South New Guinea art in a new light by revealing the symbolic meaning of their design in accordance to their use in the great secret cults that dominated pre-contact societies and still exercise considerable power today.
Brigand, Robin (Dr.)
Robin Brigand received a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the Universities of Franche-Comté (Besançon, France) and Padua (Italia). He is currently a post-doctorate researcher at UMR 8215 Trajectoires and UMR 7218 LAVUE (Paris, France). His studies on the spatial impact of former societies focus – using various scales – on site systems and their environments, settlement patterns, raw material acquisition and distribution, landscape dynamics, etc.
Bright, Alistair (Dr.)
Bright received his Ph.D. in Caribbean archaeology. His research interests lie in Amerindian history from pre-Colonial to Colonial times. He has extensive undergraduate and graduate teaching experience, from general overview courses to specialised thematic research seminars.
Brinkgreve, Francine (Dr.)
Francine Brinkgreve is curator for the Insular Southeast Asia collection at the National Museum of World Cultures, which includes Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. During her study Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, she specialized in the cultures of Indonesia.
