Ferrer Martin, Meritxell

Meritxell Ferrer is an Associate Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Humanities. She holds a BA in Humanities from Pompeu Fabra University and a PhD in History from the same institution (2012), for which she received an extraordinary doctoral award. Before joining UPF in 2015 as a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Classics and at the Archaeology Center at Stanford University (2013–2015).

Her research focuses on the archaeology of the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC, with particular attention to colonial processes and the experiences they generated in the central and western Mediterranean. Her work addresses both colonial communities—mainly Phoenician, but also Greek—and native populations of the southern Adriatic (Apulia and Albania), Sicily, and the Iberian Peninsula during the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age. Within this framework, she analyses social dynamics through postcolonial and feminist approaches, with a particular focus on identity politics (individual and collective), power and gender relations, and contemporary uses of the past.

She is a member of the Social and Gender Archaeology Research Unit (RASG) at UPF, as well as of the Group for Mediterranean Archaeology: Connections, Materialities and Writings (GRACME).

In the Department of Humanities, she teaches both the Humanities degree and the Master's in World History. She has also served as a mobility tutor and held the posts of Head of Teaching Innovation and Coordinator of Teaching, acting as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.