Real name:
Biography:
Hélène Maloigne has a BA in archaeology and ancient languages, an MA in archaeology and art history from the University of Bern in Switzerland and an MA in Museum Studies from University College London (UCL). Their PhD thesis (History, UCL, 2020) explored the history of archaeology in the Middle East in the early 20th century. Their current research centres on the history and practice of archaeology in the 19th and 20th centuries and its reliance on gender performativity, friendship, and popular culture.
Hélène works as an archaeologist at Tell Atchana, Alalakh Excavations. They are Assistant Editor at the Bulletin of the History of Archaeology.
Current research areas:
Modern British History; History of Archaeology; Late Bronze Age; Eastern Mediterranean; Ancient Near East; Middle East
Recent publications:
Books:
Murat Akar and Hélène Maloigne (eds.), The Forgotten Kingdom. Archaeology and Photography at Ancient Alalakh. Koç University Press, Istanbul, 2014.
Peer-reviewed articles:
with Ekin Kozal, Hannah Mönninghoff and Miroslav Novák, ‘Archaeology and patronage. A reappraisal of John Garstang’s archaeological fieldwork at Sirkeli Höyük’. Anatolica XLVIII (2022), 101–152, doi: 10.2143/ANA.48.0.000000
‘Breaking new Ground. C. Leonard Woolley’s archaeology talks on the BBC, 1922–1939’. Media History, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2109457.
‘The Flapper of Ur. Archaeology and the image of the young woman in inter-war Britain’. Twentieth-Century British History 33/2 (2022), 230–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwab041.
‘How Idrimi came to London. Diplomacy and the division of archaeological finds in the 1930s’. Museum History Journal 10/2 (2017), 200–216, https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2017.1328874
Book chapters, catalogue essays, conference volumes:
‘Making use of the past. The possibilities of archaeological archives’. In Alalakh and its Neighbors: Proceedings of the 15th Anniversary Symposium at the New Hatay Archaeology Museum, June 10–12, 2015, ed. by K.A. Yener and T. Ingman, Peeters, 2020, 13–27.
Book reviews:
Review of Kathleen L. Sheppard. 2022. Tea on the Terrace. Hotels and Egyptologists’ Social Networks, 1885–1925. Manchester University Press. Antiquity 97/391 (2022), 253–255, https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.154.
Review of Billie Melman, 2020. Empires of Antiquities. Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950. Oxford University Press. Antiquity 95/379 (2021), 265–266, https://doi:10.15184/aqy.2020.232
Review of Margarita Díaz-Andreu. 2019. A History of Archaeological Tourism. Pursuing Leisure and Knowledge From the Eighteenth Century to World War II. Springer. Public Archaeology 18/2 (2019), 135–136, https://doi.org/10.1080/14655187.2021.1893063
Forthcoming research:
‘Creating the image of the archaeologist in the interwar period’. In Raiding Indiana Jones: Histories, Franchises and Legacies, ed. by Llewella Chapman, Manchester University Press (forthcoming).
‘Who owns the Past?’ In Renee So. Provenance – Exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art (April – July 2023), ed. by Charlotte Day, Monash University Publishing (forthcoming).
‘Clay, stone and bone small finds’. In Tell Atchana, Alalakh. Volume 3. The Late Bronze Age I City. 2011–2018 Excavation Seasons, ed. by K. Aslıhan Yener and Murat Akar, Koç University Press (forthcoming).