Heritage and Prehistory research on material culture, identity politics, and gender. Bronze Age regional dress cultures, change in burial rites, creativity, and tells; heritage studies of memorials and post-conflict
Elected 2022
Interdisciplinary approaches in researching the prehistoric archaeology of India focusing on hominin behaviour, palaeoenvironments and chronology; situating this in a global perspective and uniting research with public outreach
Archaeology Southern Europe Italy Art and Archaeology of Rome, Italy and the Roman Provinces
Prehistory and Protohistory of the Near East, rise of inequality, early centralised political economy strategies, urbanisation, early bureaucracy and the origin of State, with particular reference to Anatolia and Mesopotamia