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HomePeopleLiz Scarfe
Liz Scarfe

Position: PhD Candidate in Anthropology
School and/or Centres: School of Archaeology and Anthropology

Email: elizabeth.scarfe@anu.edu.au

Location: Hayden-Allen Building, University Avenue

Qualification: Master of Culture, Health and Medicine (Adv), Australian National University
Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Sciences (Biol) (Hons), Curtin University

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Liz is a doctoral candidate at the Australian National University conducting a material culture study of Icelandic wool, as it travels from sheep to traditional Icelandic lopapeysa sweater. Thinking about and through ‘things’ as active culture-makers, Liz intersects artefact manufacture with traditional anthropological techniques to better understand how wool shapes and is shaped by culture.

Material culture, artefact anthropology, sensory anthropology, gender, labour, craft, multispecies ethnography, Iceland, European Studies, folkloristics, ontological anthropology, new materialism.

Postgraduate Medal for Academic Excellence, Australian National University, 2024

Australian Anthropological Society Engage grant 2025

Australian Government Research Training Program Domestic Scholarship,
2025–present

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