Gilly Carr is Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Holocaust Heritage, and Director of Studies in Archaeology at St Catharine’s College. She is also Academic Director in Archaeology at the University’s Institute of Continuing Education. In 2016 she was appointed by the government to the UK delegation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). In 2019 she joined the academic advisory board of the new UK Holocaust Memorial to be built in Westminster.

In 2023-24, Gilly coordinated the Lord Pickles Alderney Expert Review, a project convened by Lord Eric Pickles, the UK’s Post-Holocaust Issues Special Envoy, to calculate the number of prisoners who died in Alderney during the Nazi occupation, and the total number of prisoners who passed through the island. From 2019-2024, Gilly chaired the Safeguarding Sites project for IHRA, which culminated in the launch, in Brussels, in January 2024, of an international heritage charter to safeguard Holocaust sites in the 21st century. 

Gilly joined the University in 1994 to do an MPhil in World Archaeology, followed by a PhD in Archaeology, both at St John’s College. In 2006 she became a Fellow of St Catharine’s. She is the author of 80 publications, including 8 monographs and 8 edited volumes. She regularly gives conference papers across Europe and has advised on many heritage projects in the Channel Islands related to the German occupation of WWII. In 2000, she was awarded the European Association of Archaeologists heritage medal for her work in the Channel Islands on behalf of victims and survivors of Nazism, which has included museum exhibitions, lectures, excavations, and campaigns for memorials.