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Nicole Boivin
CitizenshipCanadian
OccupationArchaeologist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Thesis"Archaeological Science as Anthropology": Space, Time and Materiality in Rural India and the Ancient Past (2001)
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeological Science
Sub-disciplineArchaeology
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Oxford University
Websiteshh.mpg.de/141324

Nicole Lise Boivin is an archaeologist and former director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

Nicole Boivin, FSA (born 1970) is a Canadian archaeologist, scientific director at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. Between 1995 and 2016, Boivin was at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, conducting research and teaching. Boivin’s archaeological research is multi-disciplinary, and cross-cuts the traditional divide between the natural sciences and humanities. Boivin has led and implemented large-scale and long-term interdisciplinary field projects in Africa, Europe and Asia. She has increasingly focused her research on the Anthropocene, examining how humans have both impacted and shaped natural ecosystems

Education and career

Boivin has a BSc in cellular, molecular and microbial biology from the University of Calgary (1992), Canada. She obtained her MPhil (1996) and PhD (2001) in archaeology from the University of Cambridge.[1] Following her PhD she held a Fyssen Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship at the Université de Paris X and the CNRS in 2005. After her Fyssen fellowship, she took up a research fellowship at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge (2006–2008).[2] At Cambridge she also held a senior research fellowship at Jesus College (2010-2016).[4] With the receipt of a Starting Grant from the European Research Council , she began a senior research fellowship in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford (2008-2016).[3]

Boivin joined the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, as director of the Department of Archaeology in July 2016, building a large and diverse program in archaeological science, which included active fieldwork in numerous countries across Africa, Eurasia and the Americas. Boivin established new laboratory facilities in Jena, including the Computational Archaeology Lab, the Stable Isotope Laboratories, the Palaeoproteomics Laboratories, the Zooarchaeology and ZooMS Laboratories, the Palaeoecology and Palaeobotany Laboratories, the Metabolites and Single Compound Labs, the Radiocarbon Laboratory, and the Archaeological Laboratories. In October 2021, she was temporarily removed from her position, after an internal investigation alleged misconduct, which Boivin has denied.[5][6] In December 2021, a court in Berlin re-instated Boivin as a director, a decision which the Max Planck Society appealed.[9] In April 2022, she was removed a second time as director, following a vote by a governing board of the Max Planck Society.[6] Boivin continues to deny all allegations and she has called for an external review of her case.[5][6] Concerns have been expressed about gender discrimination and misogyny in the Max Planck Society.[7][8] A letter signed by 145 leading female scientists around the world raised concerns about the dismissal of Boivin and other women leaders. Concerns have also been raised about the investigatory procedures by the Max Planck. Boivin is currently a Professor and a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. She maintains an active, global research programme, currently supervising or co-supervising more than 30 research projects. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the Mongolian Archaeological Project: Surveying the Steppes (MAPSS), supported by the Arcadia Fund (2021-2025).

Research

Boivin's research is multi-disciplinary, spanning the natural sciences and humanities. Her research includes investigating human migrations out of Africa in the Late Pleistocene, to maritime trade and biological exchange in the Indian Ocean during the last two thousand years. She was awarded a European Research Council starting grant (2007–2014) for the Sealinks project,[1] which investigated the emergence of long-distance trade and connectivity in the Indian Ocean, and its relationship to processes of biological exchange and translocation.[2] Her work examines long-term human history and the relationships between people and the environment on a global scale. At the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, her Department's work explores the diverse ways that data about the past can inform modern day challenges including climate change, anthropogenic transformation of species and environments, and food security. Her research has been funded by the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Australian Research Council, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, and the British Academy.

She is the author of Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Role of Things in Human Thought, Society and Evolution published in 2009 by Cambridge University Press),[3] and co-editor of several books including Human Dispersal and Species Movements: From Prehistory to the Present (2017, Cambridge University Press)[4] and Globalisation and the ‘People without History’: Understanding Contact and Exchange in Prehistory (2018, Cambridge University Press),[5] and Soils, Stones and Symbols: Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World, published by Routledge in 2004.[6]

Awards

Boivin was recipient of the Prehistoric Society Bob Smith Award in 2002, the joint winner of the 2011 Antiquity Ben Cullen Prize,[7] and nominated Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 2013.[8]

Selected publications

  • Boivin, N., Fuller, D.Q., Dennell, R., Allaby, R. & Petraglia, D. 2013. Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. Quaternary International 300: 32–47.
  • Boivin, N., Fuller, D. & Crowther, A. 2012. Old World globalization and the Columbian Exchange: Comparison and contrast. World Archaeology 44(3): 452–69.
  • Fuller, D.Q., Boivin, N., Hoogervorst, T. & Allaby, R. 2011. Across the Indian Ocean: The prehistoric movement of plants and animals. Antiquity 85: 544–558.
  • Petraglia, M.D., Haslam, M., Fuller, D.Q. & Boivin, N. 2010. The southern dispersal route and the spread of modern humans along the Indian Ocean rim: New hypotheses and evidence. Annals of Human Biology 37(3): 288–311.
  • Boivin, N. & Fuller, D.Q. 2009. Shell middens, ships and seeds: Exploring coastal subsistence, maritime trade and the dispersal of domesticates in and around the ancient Arabian peninsula. Journal of World Prehistory 22: 113–180.
  • Petraglia, M.D., Clarkson, C., Boivin, N., Haslam, M., Korisettar, R., Chaubey, G., Ditchfield, P., Fuller, D., James, H., Jones, S., Kivisild, T., Koshy, J., Lahr, M.M., Metspalu, M., Roberts, R. & Arnold, L. 2009. Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 12261–12266.

References

  1. ^ "Bridging continents across the sea: Multi-disciplinary perspectives on the emergence of long-distance maritime contacts in prehistory". European Commission.
  2. ^ "Sealinks Project". Sealinks Project.
  3. ^ "Material Cultures, Material Minds The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution". Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ Boivin, Nicole; Petraglia, Michael; Crassard, Remy, eds. (2017). Human Dispersal and Species Movement From Prehistory to the Present. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316686942. ISBN 9781316686942. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Boivin, Nicole; Frachetti, Michael D, eds. (2018). Globalization in Prehistory Contact, Exchange, and the 'People Without History'. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108573276. ISBN 9781108573276. S2CID 240215459. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  6. ^ "Soils Stones and Symbols Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World". Routledge.
  7. ^ "Prize Winners". Antiquity.
  8. ^ "Dr. Nicole Boivin". Academia Net.
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