Caroline Sturdy Colls

Caroline Sturdy Colls is a professor of Holocaust archaeology and genocide investigation and director of the Centre of Archaeology at the University of Huddersfield. Her research has led to new material and spatial understandings of the Holocaust and other genocides, and contributed to missing persons cases in and beyond conflict. She is the author of several monographs, including Holocaust Archaeologies: Approaches and Future Directions, “Adolf Island”: The Nazi Occupation of Alderney, and the forthcoming Finding Treblinka: Forensic and Archaeological Perspectives. She was the recipient of the European Archaeological Heritage Prize in 2016, the Distinguished Medal of Honor from the Treblinka Museum in 2021, and the Dan David Prize in 2025.