prof. dr. Birger Stichelbaut

Biografie / Biography

Dr. Birger Stichelbaut (°1982) finished his master degree in archaeology in 2004 at the Department of Archaeology (UGent). In the period 2005-2009 he was a Research Assistant of the research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) and publically defended his Phd “World War One Aerial Photography: an Archaeological Perspective” in April 2009 (members of the jury: Prof. Dr. Wlodek Radcowski, Dr. Nicholas Saunders, Dr. Robert Bewley, Prof. Dr. Rudi Goossens, Prof. Dr. Arjen Bosman).

Birger Stichelbaut is interested in the themes of archaeological aerial photography, historical aerial photography, GIS and the conflict archaeology of World War One. He is also responsible for the coordination of the oblique aerial photographic prospection in the provinces of East and West-Flanders. He currently works as a post-doctoral researcher at the department carrying out a large scale inventory of World War One sites in West-Flanders using historical aerial photographs (1915-1918). This project is a collaboration between the In Flanders Fields Museum, the Province of West-Flanders and the UGent Department of Archaeology and will finish in 2012.

Enkele belangrijke publicaties / Selected bibliography

1. Masters P. & Stichelbaut B. (2009) From the Air to Beneath the Soil: Revealing/Mapping the Great War Remains at Ploegsteert (Comines-Warneton, Belgium). In: Journal of Archaeological Prospection, 16, 4, pp. 279-285.
2. Stichelbaut B.  (2009) The Overlooked Aerial imagery of World War One: a Unique Source for Conflict and Landscape Archaeology. In: Photogrammetrie - Fernerkundung – Geoinformation, 2009, 3: 231-240.
3. Stichelbaut B., Bourgeois J., Saunders N. & Chielens P. (Eds.) 2009 Images of Conflict: Military Aerial Photography and Archaeology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 302 p.
4. Stichelbaut B.  (2009) The Interpretation of Great War Air Photographs for Conflict Archaeology & Overview of the Belgian Royal Army Museum’s Collection. In: Stichelbaut B.,  Bourgeois J.,  Saunders N. &  Chielens P. (Eds.) Images of Conflict: Military Aerial Photography and Archaeology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 185-202.
5. Bourgeois J. & Stichelbaut B. (2009) Images of Conflict: an Introduction. In: Stichelbaut B.,  Bourgeois J.,  Saunders N. &  Chielens P. (Eds.) Images of Conflict: Military Aerial Photography and Archaeology. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: 1-12.
6. Stichelbaut B. & Bourgeois J. (2006) De Kemmelberg, Getuige van Wereldoorlog I. Een Analyse van Militaire Historische Luchtfoto's. In: Bourgeois J.,  De Mulder G. &  Putman J.-L. (Eds.) The Kemmelberg. The Kemmelberg and Related Elite Sites in Central and Western Europe (6th-5th Century): Perspectives for Future Research. VIOE, Brussel: 11-14.
7.  Stichelbaut B. (2006) The Application of First World War Aerial Photography to Archaeology: the Belgian Images. In: Antiquity 80, 307: 161-172.
8. Stichelbaut B. (2005) Great War Aerial Photography, a Contribution to the Flemish Battlefield Archaeology. In: Bourgeois J. &  Meganck M. (Eds.) Aerial Photography & Archaeology 2003. A Century of Information. Archaeological Reports Ghent University, 4,  Academia, Ghent: 137-150.
9. Stichelbaut B., J. Bourgeois & W. Gheyle (in press) The Imperial War Museum's Box Collection In: Standring R. A.,  Cowley D. C. &  Abicht M. J. (Eds.) From archives to applications. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
10. Bourgeois J. & Stichelbaut B. (in press) The Use of Historical Aerial Photographs in West-Flanders for the Detection of Archaeological sites. In: Hanson W. &  Oltean I. (Eds.) The Spy in the Sky: Archaeology from Aerial Archives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
11. Stichelbaut B.  (in press) Une Vue Aérienne de Cantigny. L’Interprétation des Photos Aériennes pour l’Archéologie du Conflict ’14-’18. In: Desfossées Y. &  Jacques A. (Eds.) Quelle Archéologie Pour les Traces de la Grande Guerre. S.l.