Overview
I am currently a part-time Research Fellow on the UKRI-funded 'NoMAD: Non-destructive Mobile Analysis and imaging Device' project working with
Prof Jamie Hampson.
I work primarily at the University of Oxford, where I am the
Curator for Later European Prehistory at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, a Research Fellow at Wolfson College, and a Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology. My research focuses on rock art and portable art in Europe; Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology in Northern, Central, and Western Europe; coastal and intertidal archaeology; effects of environmental change on art production; and the intersections of archaeological and anthropological theory in prehistoric art studies.
I am currently leading and collaborating on other grant-funded projects:
LINXS: Heritage Science theme at the University of Lund;
Sir John Evans and the Hallstatt Collection at the Ashmolean Museum; and the
Iron Age Coins in Britain and
Celtic Coin Index Digital projects at the Ashmolean and School of Archaeology. I recently led the Leverhulme-funded project
Ebb & Flow: Exploring rivers in later prehistoric Britain and
BALMS: Bronze Age Landscapes and Metalwork in Sweden.
From 2017–2018, I was a Research Fellow at the Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit at Griffith University (Australia) on the Australian Research Council Laureate project: Australian Rock Art History, Conservation and Indigenous Wellbeing. From 2015–2017, I was a researcher on the Leverhulme-funded project 'European Celtic Art in Context' at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford (
http://ecaic.arch.ox.ac.uk/) and a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
I have a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading, for which I created a Scandinavian-wide GIS survey of prehistoric rock art and used this to discuss maritime rock art and human responses to environmental change. The monograph of this research was published in 2015 (
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/oxbow/prehistoric-rock-art-in-scandinavia.html). I have an MA Distinction in Maritime Archaeology from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Prior to my settlement in the UK, I worked at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (USA) in Conservation and Collections Management. I completed my BFA (University of California, Santa Cruz) and MFA (Tufts University, SMFA) in fine art, art history and museum studies.
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