Publications

Publications

• Emotional Labor and Heart Work: Addressing Mental Illness in Anthropology – co-authored with Emma Louise Backe in Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier & More Ethical (forthcoming 2024)
• Policy Statement Mental Well-being among Anthropologists at Universities: A Call for System Transformation – co-authored with Erica Hua Fletcher, Emma Louise Backe, Tory Brykalski, Melinda González, Shir Lerman Ginzburg, Rob Meeker, Rachel P. Riendeau, Meagan Thies-Sauder, and Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster, Medical Anthropology Quarterly 36(1) (2022)
• Stories Around the Campfire – Contributor, Return to the Interactive Past: The Interplay of Video Games and Histories (2021), p. 206-207.
• Precarity as a Migrant Family Tradition – A Day is a Struggle (2021)
• So…is Archaeology Decolonized Yet? – New Voices in Postcolonial Studies, Summer (2021), p. 29-33
• Accountability in Action: How Can Archaeology Make Amends? – Special Issue: Inequality and Race in the Histories of Archaeology. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology (2021), p. 14-16.
• New Light on the Covesea Caves, north-east Scotland – co-authored with Lindsey Büster and Ian Armit, PAST 96, Autumn (2020), p. 2-5
• In the Future, We Will Create a Typology for Thrift Store Tags – Barrow 4. (2020), p. 26-27.
• A Brief Consideration of the Late Prehistoric Appearance and Possible Significance of the Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) in the Covesea Caves of North-East Scotland – co-authored with Julie Bond, Lindsey Büster, and Ian Armit, The Glasgow Naturalist 27(2) (2020)
• Identification of Avian Remains from Covesea Cave 2 on the Moray Firth Coast, Northeastern Scotland – Cave & Karst Science 46(3) (2019), p. 115-117
• Fish Bones, Microscopes, and Isotopes: A Pilot Study in Applying Analytical Methods to Iron Age Faunal Remains – Assemblage 17 (2019), p. 1-10

Online Publications

• What Does a PhD Mean in a Pandemic? – Scientists Are Human (2020)
• Dogs, Not Dinos! The Truth About Zooarchaeology – Dig It! (2020)
• You Will Never Be Indiana Jones– Lady Science (2020)
• Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland – Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (2019)
• To Be the Curator, and Not the Curated – SISTER (2019)

Interviews

• Zooarchaeology: Ritual and Funeral Burials in the Covesea Caves – Ask an Archaeologist, hosted by Behind the Trowel (2021)
• Cave of Wonders: Ritual and Funerary Zooarchaeology at the Covesea Caves – Current Archaeology Live (2021)
• From Trenches to TV: The 21st Century Archaeologist – Festival of Archaeology, hosted by Shout Out Loud (2020)
• Animal Bones and Archaeology – ArchaeoDuck’s Meet the Archaeologist (2018)

Podcast Episodes

• ArchaeoAnimals Podcast – Host (Ongoing)
• The Trial of the Tomb Raider – Hey, Lesson! Podcast (2021)
• The Anti-Indiana Jones Approach: Decolonizing Zooarchaeology – PhDivas Podcast (2020)
• Phinishing Your PhD During a Pandemic – PhDivas Podcast (2020)
• Zooarchaeology with Alex Fitzpatrick – The Palmer Files Podcast (2020)
• #DiggingWhileDepressed, Mental Health, and Archaeology– Women in Archaeology Podcast (2019)
• How Do We Study Zooarchaeology of Bronze Age Scotland? – The Arch and Anth Podcast (2019)
• Interview with Alex Fitzpatrick – Ask an Archaeologist Podcast (2018)
• Zooarchaeology – Women in Archaeology Podcast (2018)

Science Communication

• How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends – PBS Eons (2020)
• How We Domesticated Cats (Twice) – PBS Eons (2019)
• When Giant Deer Roamed Eurasia – PBS Eons (2019)

Conferences and Seminars

• Reimagining Zoos: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Conservation and Curation – co-author with Hanna Marie Pageau, World Archaeological Congress (2022)
• Does Zooarchaeology Matter? A Case for Actionable Animal Archaeologies – Zooarchaeology Saves the World (2022)
• Moving Towards Decolonisation: Proposing a Framework for Action in Universities – Making Diversity Interventions Count (2022)
• Digging While Depressed and dis/Abled: Mental Health and Accessibility in Archaeological Practice – CIfA2022 Annual Conference (2022)
• Promoting Progress: Using Social Media to Diversify Archaeology – Digging Archaeology through Social Media (2022)
• Unearthing the Uncomfortable: Reflections on the Continued Lack of Diversity in British Archaeology – Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society Community Archaeology Conference (2022)
• Gesturing Beyond Bones: Proposing a Decolonised Zooarchaeology – Approaches to Decolonising Research (2022)
• There is Power in the Past: The Politicization of Archaeology and Heritage in the Star Wars Universe – co-author with Stephanie Halmhofer, Realizing Resistance Episode II: Uncharted Galaxies (2021)
• On Liminality: Space, Time, and Identities – Spring into Science: Queer Representation in Research (2021)
• Beyond Domestication and Subsistence: A Call for a Decolonised Zooarchaeology – Decolonising Science Narratives (2019)
• #DiggingWhileDepressed: A Call for Mental Health Awareness in Archaeology – Public Archaeology Twitter Conference (2019)
• Should We Respect Rover’s Remains? A Discussion on Ethics, or the Lack Thereof, in Zooarchaeology – Animal Remains Conference (2019)
• The WordPress Workshop: Blogging as a Method for Theory Development – PressEd Conference (2019)
• No Margins, No Word Counts, No Masters! Experimenting with ‘Zines for Archaeological Outreach – Public Archaeology Twitter Conference (2019)
• Black Flags and Black Trowels: Embracing Anarchy in Interpretation and Practice – Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2018)
• Caves of Wonder: A Preliminary Analysis of the Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves, NE Scotland – British Cave Research Association Symposium (2018)
• The World Wide Reference Collection: Zooarchaeological Twitter and the Case for an International Zooarchaeology Database – Computer Applications in Archaeology Twitter Conference (2018)
• Things Worth Telling: Considering the Narrative in Environmental Archaeology – co-author with Valerie San Filippo, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2017)
• Fishing, Diet, and Environment in the Iron Age of the Northern Isles – Iron Age Research Society Student Symposium (2017)

Thesis Papers

• Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland: An Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves – PhD Thesis (2020)
• Fishing, Diet, and Environment in the Iron Age of the Northern Isles – MSc Thesis (2016)

Grey Literature/Technical Reports

Most papers and presentation slides can be accessed via my ResearchGate or Academia profiles. I can also provide PDF copies if requested.

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