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From October 2007 I've been a lecturer in Medieval Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology, University of Reading, teaching the archaeology of medieval Europe and crusader archaeology modules. Before, I was a research fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Clare College, University of Cambridge. I finished my Ph.D. at the Department of Archaeology, Cambridge in 2003.
I specialise in the bioarchaeology of medieval Europe, with a particular focus on physical and conceptual responses to animals - especially large carnivores - and the different ways in which people constructed their environments or ecological 'niches'. More recently, my research and teaching has extended to the archaeology of crusading. I have excavated in the UK, Italy, Montenegro, the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania and Estonia. My research, rooted in zooarchaeology with an inter-disciplinary framework, is sub-divided into a series of themes and sub-themes:
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