Dr Brinn Hodgett

Portrait of Brinn Hodgett
(Former) Project Researcher

Research summary

Brinn Hodgett trained in archaeology and anthropology and works across both disciplines, using methodological approaches and theoretical insights from each discipline to interrogate museum and archival collections. Brinn's PhD research (based between Birkbeck, University of London and the Pitt Rivers Museum) explored the photographic archive of the early twentieth century archaeologist O.G.S. Crawford, and reflects Brinn’s broader research interests in photography and visual culture. The final thesis was titled ‘Life in Photographs: Archaeology, Assemblage and Temporality in the Archive of O.G.S. Crawford’. Brinn was Project Researcher on the Making the Museum project at the Pitt Rivers Museum, the first major research project in an ethnographic museum to investigate maker identities and agencies across a museum's collection between 2024 and 2026.

Publications

Hodgett, B. 2025. We Must Write About Those Who Have Been Silenced: On Writing Submerged Lives Back into the History of Archaeology. Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 40 (2), 112–135. https://arc.soc.srcf.net/issues/40-2 

Rudy; Unknown Maker; Unknown Maker; Poulsen, Oscar S.; Ablard, C.; Utreras, Julia; Manuel, Frankie; Glacey, Jack; Unknown Maker; OSCAR; Unknown Maker; Syed, Jia; Unknown Maker; Martin, Becky; Unknown Maker; Hodgett, B; Len; Thompson, Peter A.; Utreras, Gau; Unknown Maker; Rokib, Anisah; Hirst, Luca; Jackson, Susan; Bruce, Hannah; Arnold, Bettina; Unknown Maker; Muck, Alex; Campbell, Sam; Grieveson, Julia; Brown, Lizzy; Unknown Maker; Campbell, Holly; Unknown Maker. 2026. Makers and Fakers (The Zine): How Copies, Replicas, Casts and Fakes ‘Make’ Museum Collections, Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum. 

Hodgett, B., C. Gosden, R. Martin, C. Morton, and M. Thompson-Odlum, 2025. ‘Making the Museum’ and the Archaeology of the Pitt Rivers Museum Collection. Antiquity, online first, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.43.

Hodgett, B., 2019. ‘Rear elevation’ and other stories: re-excavating presence in OGS Crawford's photographs of the 1939 Sutton Hoo excavation. Antiquity, 93 (370).