Dr Hélène Maloigne FHEA

Lecturer in History

Hélène Maloigne is Associate Editor for the Bulletin of the History of Archaeology and object registrar and collections manager at Tell Atchana/Alalakh Excavations (Turkey). They gained their PhD at the Department of History at University College London (UCL) with a thesis on the history of archaeology in the Middle East in the early 20th century. With a BA in archaeology and ancient languages and an MA in archaeology and art history from the University of Bern in Switzerland and an MA in Museum Studies from the Institute of Archaeology at UCL. Hélène is an interdisciplinary historian, archaeologist and cultural heritage professional.

History

History

Responsibilities within the university
  • Lecturer in History
  • Personal Tutor

Recognition
  • Fellow of Advance HE
  • Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
  • Member of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq
  • Member of the British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology

Research / Scholarly interests

Hélène’s research centres on the history and practice of archaeology in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a focus on the interconnection between the creation of archaeology as a discipline, imperialism, gender performativity, friendship, and popular culture. They work on contextualizing the historical dependence of archaeology on power structures and how the discipline as a whole and individual archaeologists can acknowledge and understand the past and move forward to a more inclusive and diverse future.

Media activity

Podcasts

Magazine articles:

  • With Akar, M. (November 2023), ‘Tell Atchana – Alalakh: wie es nach den Erdbeben weitergeht‘. ANTIKE WELT.
  • Maloigne, H. (January 2024) ‘Im Schatten der Großen: Frederick Mitchell-Hedges‘. ANTIKE WELT
  • Maloigne, H. (March 2024) 'Im Schatten der Großen: Mary Chubb'. ANTIKE WELT (03/2024).
  • With Aït Saïd-Ghanem, N. (May 2024), 'Im Schatten der Großen: Ibrahim Elias Gejou'. ANTIKE WELT.
  • Maloigne, H. (July 2024) 'Im Schatten der Großen: Scheich Hamoudi und andere "Vorarbeiter"'. ANTIKE WELT
  • Maloigne, H. (September 2024) 'Im Schatten der Großen: Katharine Woolley'. ANTIKE WELT.
  • Maloigne, H. (November 2024) 'Im Schatten der Großen: James Simon'. ANTIKE WELT.
  • Maloigne, H. (August/September 2023) ‘Indiana Jones and the nature of archaeology’. Current World Archaeology 120, pp. 32–36.

Recent publications

Books:

  • Akar, M. and Maloigne, H. (eds.) (2014), The Forgotten Kingdom. Archaeology and Photography at Ancient Alalakh. Koç University Press, Istanbul.

Peer-reviewed articles:

  • Maloigne, H. (2023) ‘Breaking new Ground: C. Leonard Woolley’s archaeology talks on the BBC, 1922–1939’. Media History 29(3), pp. 338–352, https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2109457
  • with Ekin Kozal, Hannah Mönninghoff and Miroslav Novák (2022), ‘Archaeology and patronage: A reappraisal of John Garstang’s archaeological fieldwork at Sirkeli Höyük’. Anatolica XLVIII, pp. 101–152, doi: 10.2143/ANA.48.0.000000
  • Maloigne, H. (2022) ‘The Flapper of Ur: Archaeology and the image of the young woman in inter-war Britain’. Twentieth-Century British History 33(2), pp. 230–253, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwab041
  • Maloigne, H. (2017), ‘How Idrimi came to London: Diplomacy and the division of archaeological finds in the 1930s’. Museum History Journal 10(2), pp. 200–216, https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2017.1328874

Book chapters, catalogue essays:

  • Maloigne, H. (in print) ‘Creating the image of the archaeologist in the interwar period’. In Chapman, L. (ed.), Raiding Indiana Jones: Histories, Franchises and Legacies, Manchester, Manchester University Press.
  • Maloigne, H. (2023) ‘Who owns the Past?’ In Day, C. and Ratliff M. (eds.) Renee So. Provenance – Exhibition at the Monash University Museum of Art (April – July 2023), Monash University Publishing.