Barry Molloy

• Associate Professor, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin

I am a specialist in European and Mediterranean prehistory, with a particular focus on the 2nd to early 1st millennia BC. I have conducted fieldwork and museum-based projects across Europe, including Albania, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Montenegro, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and the United Kingdom. This has been supported by Irish Research Council fellowships, two Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowships and an ERC Consolidator Grant, amongst other sources, including regular support from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory.

I currently lead the ERC funded "The Fall of 1200 BC" project (GA #772753) which explores crisis-driven societal changes in southeast Europe and the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age. This includes research into migration and mobility, conflict and warfare, craft responses, and climate change in the 14th to 11th centuries BC.

I joined UCD in 2018 as Associate Professor in the UCD School of Archaeology. I teach on a variety of topics, including Bronze and Iron Age Europe and the Mediterranean, Material Culture studies, Collapse and Resilience in ancient societies, Experimental Archaeology, Fieldwork methods and practice, Archaeological Science.

I have published over 55 academic papers. I regularly participate in the European Association of Archaeologists and the Archaeological Institute of America annual meetings. I am Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a Member of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland.

I never liked to define myself narrowly within the field, and have active research interests across Europe, from the Atlantic coasts to the vibrant riverine networks of the Balkan peninsula or the beautiful Mediterranean island of Crete.

My research interests are quite varied as I find our field truly exciting and a broad church!

My primary areas include:
* Bronze and Iron Age Europe
* East Mediterranean (including Aegean) prehistory
* Resilience, collapse and social change in prehistory
* The archaeology of conflict and violence
* Prehistoric technological practices
* Metals, metallurgy, metalwork and most things metally
* Settlement archaeology
* Experimental archaeology

Current areas of collaborative research include:
* Social bioarchaeology
* Stable isotope analyses relating to diet and mobility
* Applications of biomolecular data for understanding social change

• –present Associate Professor, University College Dublin

• 2006 University College Dublin, Archaeology

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