Publications

Journal Articles

• Ancient Egyptian Curses and Bog Bodies: Second Response – written in response to Emma Verstraete’s article, Epoiesen (2024)
• Opening up the Archive: An Approach to Volunteer-led Crowdsourcing in the Museum and Online – co-authored with Geoff Belknap, Sam Blickhan, and Lynn Wray,  IMPact: e-Journal of Higher Education Research 7(1) (2024) 1-14.
• There is Power in the Past: The Politicization of Archaeology and Heritage in the Star Wars Universe – co-authored with Stephanie Halmhofer, Unbound: A Journal of Digital Scholarship 3(1) (2023)
• 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)
• 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.
• 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

Book Chapters & Contributions

• Archaeologists, Activists, and Angry Trolls: Using Social Media for Digital Activism in Archaeology – Documenting Activism, Creating Change: Archaeology and the Legacy of #MeToo
• How to Provide Outreach that is In Reach: An Examination of Trends towards Multivocality and Accessibility in Digital Public Archaeology – co-authored with Tristian Boyle in The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Media in the 21st Century
• Fieldwork and Feeled-Work: Addressing Mental Health in Ethnography – co-authored with Emma Louise Backe in Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier & More Ethical (2024)
• 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)

Newsletter & Magazine Articles

• Where is the Diversity in the Heritage Sector? Attempting to Resolve a National and Local Issue – Briefing 12 (2023), pp. 38-39
• Current Barriers for Disabled People in Accessing Archaeology – co-authored with Sarahjayne Clements and Abi Hunt, The Archaeologist 118, Winter (2023), pp. 3-6.
• So…is Archaeology Decolonized Yet? – New Voices in Postcolonial Studies, Summer (2021), p. 29-33
• 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.

Online Publications

• Congruence Engine in Bradford: Towards a Local Instance of the National Collection Social Machine – co-written with Arran Rees, Science Museum Group (2023)
• On Changing Terminology: From “Dis/Abled” to “Disabled” – Enabled Archaeology Foundation (2023)
• New Approaches to Hybrid Volunteering: A Report from the Communities & Crowds Workshop – National Science and Media Museum (2023)
• From the Archives to the Internet: Updates from the Communities & Crowds Project – National Science and Media Museum (2023)
• 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

• Meet Alex Fitzpatrick – Mummy Stories (2023)
• Why the Gonzo Conspiracy that Rome isn’t Real Keeps Going Viral – The Daily Beast (2022)
• 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 (2018 – 2023)
• And Thanks for All the Fish Bones – Goblinological Fantasies (2024)
• A Bestiary of Dragons and Wyrms (Part Two) – And My Trowel Podcast (2023)
• A Bestiary of Dragons and Wyrms (Part One) – And My Trowel Podcast (2023)
• 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

• When Did We Stop Being Naked? – PBS Eons (2023)
• The Neanderthal Burial That Taught Us About Humanity – PBS Eons (2023)
• 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

• Enabling Archaeology for Everyone: A Call to Action from the Enabled Archaeology Foundation – presented with Abigail Hunt, Emily Stammitti, and Sarahjayne Clements, Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference (2023)
• Unlocking the Future of Virtual Volunteering – presented with Geoff Belknap, Heritage Volunteering Group Conference (2023)
• Digital Intersections Around Science Collections – presented with Geoff Belknap, Rebekah Higgitt, and Sarah Middle, Digital Festival for the History of Science (2023)
• Opening up the Archive: An Approach to Volunteer-led Citizen Science in the Museum and Online – presented with Geoff Belknap, Heritage Dot Conference (2023)
• Reimagining Zoos: A Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Conservation and Curation – presented 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 – presented 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 – presented presented 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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