Daniel R. Hansen

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. My research explores landscape practices as semiotic media for the construction, maintenance, and manipulation of social identity in late antique and early medieval northern Britain (ca. 300-900 CE) among the people known as the Picts. This research takes an interdisciplinary approach, integrating archaeology, art history, linguistics, and historical scholarship in the study of the Pictish past, as well as ethnographic inquiry into the engagement with that past in present social contexts. I received a BA in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2018 and an MA in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2021.