Corisande Fenwick is Professor of Late Antique and Islamic Archaeology at UCL and Director of the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. Her research focuses on empire, environment and everyday life in the late antique and Islamic world, particularly North Africa. Her recent publications include the monograph Early Islamic North Africa (Bloomsbury, 2020) and the co-edited Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology (OUP, 2020).
Corisande is currently PI of the ERC project EVERYDAY ISLAM- Becoming Muslim: Cultural Change, Everyday Life and State Formation in early Islamic North Africa, Co-PI of the AHRC-DFG project ISLAMAFR: Conquest, Ecology and Economy in Islamic North Africa and Co-I of the AHRC project OASCIV: The Making of Oasis Civilisation in the Moroccan Sahara. She co-directs several field projects in Morocco and Tunisia with colleagues from INSAP, the INP, the DAI and the University of Leicester.