{{short description|Archaeologist and historian}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumbnail|The excavation of the church of S. Pietro in Villa Magna, 2009. '''Caroline Jane Goodson''' is an archaeologist and historian at the University of Cambridge, previously at Birkbeck College, University of London. In 2003 she won the Rome Prize for medieval studies of the American Academy in Rome. In archaeological work, Goodson is most closely associated with the Villa Magna site in Italy where she has been field director since 2006.
==Early life== Caroline Jane Goodson was brought up in Corpus Christi, Texas. She began her advanced education at Rhode Island School of Design<ref>[http://www.aarome.org/news/features/the-rhode-island-school-of-design-collaborates-with-the-academy The Rhode Island School of Design Collaborates with the Academy.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208144250/http://www.aarome.org/news/features/the-rhode-island-school-of-design-collaborates-with-the-academy |date=8 December 2015 }} American Academy in Rome, 9 October 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2015.</ref> from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1997 with a specialism in printmaking and art history. She received her master's degree from Columbia University in 1998 where she studied at the Department of Art History and Archaeology. She then studied in Italy at the Scuola Interdisciplinare di Metodologie Archeologiche of the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri in Bordighera<ref>[http://mosaicrooms.org/blog/qa-with-dr-caroline-goodson-senior-lecturer-in-history-classics-and-archaeology-at-birkbeck-college-university-of-london/ Q&A with Dr Caroline Goodson, Senior Lecturer in History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London.] ''The Mosaic Rooms''. Retrieved 4 December 2015.</ref> after which she returned to Columbia University from where she received her doctorate in 2004.<ref>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/about/publication/fall2007.pdf "Alumni news"], ''826 Schermerhorn'', Fall 2007, p. 13.</ref>
==Career== Goodson was first appointed as a teaching fellow at Columbia University on 2003/04. In 2004/05 she was a research associate at the Medieval Institute and a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame.
From 2005 to 2018, Goodson was a lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, first in medieval history and later in medieval archaeology and history. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the American Academy in Rome from where she received the Rome Prize in 2003,<ref>[http://aarome.org/people/alumni/sof/directory Fellows - Affiliated Fellows - Residents 1990-2010.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716001610/http://www.aarome.org/people/alumni/sof/directory |date=16 July 2014 }} American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 4 December 2015.</ref> and the Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani.<ref name=bbk>[http://www.bbk.ac.uk/history/our-staff/academic-staff/dr-caroline-goodson Dr Caroline Goodson.] Birkbeck College. Retrieved 4 December 2015.</ref>
Goodson has worked on a number of archaeological sites, mostly in Italy, of which the most significant has been the Villa Magna site where she has been field director since 2006.<ref>[https://www.stanford.edu/dept/archaeology/cgi-bin/drupal/files/Workshop%20Flyer-Goodson.jpg "American Dark Ages: American rejection of medieval archaeology"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130629112238/https://www.stanford.edu/dept/archaeology/cgi-bin/drupal/files/Workshop%20Flyer-Goodson.jpg |date=June 29, 2013 }} Stanford Archaeology Center Workshop Series 2012. Retrieved 6 December 2015.</ref>
In 2007, she was awarded the Blackwells Prize for her article "Material memory: Rebuilding the basilica of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome" which appeared that year in the journal ''Early Medieval Europe''. In 2016, she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for a project, "Urban gardening in Early Medieval Italy: cultivating the city."<ref>{{Cite web | title=Urban gardening in early medieval Italy: cultivating the city {{!}} The Leverhulme Trust | url=https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/awards-made/awards-focus/urban-gardening-early-medieval-italy-cultivating-city | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804034536/https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/awards-made/awards-focus/urban-gardening-early-medieval-italy-cultivating-city | access-date=2026-03-29 | archive-date=2016-08-04}}</ref>
Goodson's research interests lie in early medieval Mediterranean society and culture, the archaeology of daily life and the material culture of the everyday, urban gardening, and the diversification of city spaces in the Middle Ages.<ref name=bbk/>
==Selected publications== ===Books=== *''Walls and memory: The Abbey of San Sebastiano at Alatri (Lazio), from late Roman monastery to Renaissance villa and beyond''. Brepols, Turnhout, 2005. (Edited with Elizabeth Fentress, P. Laird and S. Leone) (Disciplina Monastica 2) {{ISBN|9782503515779}} *''Cities, texts and social networks, 400-1500: Experiences and perceptions of medieval urban space''. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2010. (With Anne Elisabeth Lester and Carol Symes) {{ISBN|9780754667230}}<ref>[http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754667230 ''Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208171153/http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754667230 |date=8 December 2015 }} Ashgate. Retrieved 4 December 2015.</ref> *''The Rome of Pope Paschal I (817-824): Papal power, urban renovation, church rebuilding and relic translation''. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought 77) {{ISBN|978-0521768191}}
===Articles and chapters=== *"Material memory: Rebuilding the basilica of S. Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome" in ''Early Medieval Europe'', 15.1 (2007), pp 20–52. *"Roman archaeology in medieval Rome" in ''Rome: Continuing encounters between past and present'', Dorigen Caldwell and Lesley Caldwell (Eds.), Ashgate, Aldershot, 2011, pp. 23–45. *"L’eredità di una villa imperiale in epoca bizantina e medievale" in ''Archeologia Medievale'', 29 (2012), pp. 57–86. (With E. Fentress)
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== External links == *[https://birkbeck.academia.edu/CarolineGoodson Caroline Goodson at academia.edu] *[http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/author/caroline-goodson/ Caroline Goodson at ''Day of Archaeology''.] *[https://vimeo.com/106333383 Caroline Goodson talking on “Kairouan and the formation of a ninth-century capital: a comparative perspective”.]
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