Gunita Zariņa#
| Membership Number: | 6281 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | LATVIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://lvi.lv |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-7769-4341 |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2009 Senior researcher in Repository of Bioarchaeological material, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia
- Since 2007 Head of Repository of Bioarchaeological material, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia
- 2003 - 2009 Researcher, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia
- 1997 - 2007 Head of Anthropological Repository, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia
- 1992 - 1997 Junior researcher, Institute of Latvian History at the University of Latvia (formerly Institute of Latvian History at the Academy of Sciences of Latvia)
- 1982 - 1992 Laboratory assistant, Institute of History at the Academy of Sciences of the Latvian SSR
Fields of Scholarship
- Historical demography
- Bioarchaeology
- Palaeodemography
- Palaeoecology
Honours and Awards
- Since 2020 Vice Chair of Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
- Since 2018 full member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences.
- Awards
- 2021 Latvian Academy of Sciences Award for Achievements in Science – 2021, received for encyclopedia on archeology „Handbook of Latvian Archeology”.
- 2019 Latvian Academy of Sciences Award for Achievements in Science – 2019, received for collective monograph „Migration of Cultures in Latvia”.
- 2011 Latvian Academy of Sciences Fricis Brīvzemnieks Award, received for a significant contribution in anthropology, and for the book „Palaeodemography of the inhabitants of Latvia, 7th BC – 1800 AD.”
