Education
PhD Classical Archaeology: Birkbeck, University of London
MA Museum Studies: University of Leicester
BA Hons Classics: University of Cambridge
Employment
Academic editing work, Self emloyed
Project Curator, Being an Islander, Fitzwilliam Museum
- Curated a major loans exhibition on island culture.
- Curatorial lead on design and project management teams.
- Researched objects and wrote exhibition text.
- Organised public engagement events and participated in press events.
Research Associate: Shefton Archive Project, Newcastle University
- Research pilot using archival material and the Great North Museum’s Shefton collection.
- Organised online events with partner organisations (Explore Adult Learning and Pea Green Boat refugee volunteers).
- Wrote text and built website for an online exhibition.
Finds Liaison Officer, Great North Museum Hancock
- Recorded archaeological finds for the Portable Antiquities Scheme in Northumberland.
- Built relationships with finders and supported researchers in using the data.
- Worked with coroners and central unit to report treasure finds.
Assistant Keeper: Archaeology, Great North Museum Hancock
- Responsible for a wide range of collections, including Ancient Greek, Roman and Ancient Egyptian material and all periods of local archaeology.
- lead for MythQuest exhibition planning.
Research Fellow: Ashmolean Latin Inscriptions Project, University of Oxford () and University of Warwick ()
- Planned and organised workshops for researchers and practitioners.
- Collaborated with colleagues at the Ashmolean on cataloguing, display and events.
- Produced a web catalogue to promote project outcomes to researchers.
- Employed by University of Oxford 2016 and University of Warwick 2017-8.
Assistant Curator Knossos Stratigraphic Museum
- Documented and digitiseed the collections at Knossos.
- Managed the internship programme.
Other experience
Membership Secretary and Trustee, Classical Collections Network
Volunteer, British Museum, Cyprus Digitisation Project
Volunteer, Fitzwilliam Museum, Rediscovering Greece and Rome
Publications
Book
Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann's First Exhibition. Bloomsbury Academic
Peer reviewed articles and chapters
- Newton and the challenge of the pre-classical Mediterranean, Charles Thomas Newton Beyond Archaeology, UCL Press (forthcoming)
- Searching for Pater’s Gold Flower on a Silver Stalk in Schliemann’s Mycenae, Journal of Victorian Culture Volume 30, Issue 3, July 2025, Pages 268–280
- Myths of the Odyssey in the British Museum and Beyond, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 63,1 123–137
- Breaking through the language barrier — Bringing dead languages to life through sensory and narrative engagement, Museum Management and Curatorship, 33, 5, 428–446
- The Ithaca Jewel: An Authentic Fake, Journal of the History of Collections, 28, 1, 97–108
- “Everything good we stood for”: exhibiting Greek art in World War II, Classical Receptions Journal, 8, 3, 404–428.
Reviews and other publications
- Ancient Greece, Dorling Kindersley. Chapters on “Food and Drink”, “Artists and Crafts” and “Legacy of Greece”
- Exhibition review: Labyrinth: Knossos Myth and Reality, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK. 10th February — 30th July 2023. W86th, Volume 30, Number 2pp. 317 – 320
- Review: Artifacts: How we think and write about found objects Crystal B. Lake, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 272 pp.; 4 b&w photos. Paperback $34.95. W86th, Volume 29, Number 2, pp. 315 – 317
- Review: Wellington Gahtan (M.) and Pegazzano (D.) Eds Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World (Monumenta Graeca et Romana 21). Leiden: Brill, 2015. Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 136 , 2016 , pp. 308 - 309
- Review: (J.) Siapkas and (L.) Sjögren Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity: The Petrified Gaze. New York and London: Routledge, 2014. Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 135 , 2015 , pp. 304 - 305
- Review: SERVI, Katerina The Acropolis The Acropolis Museum Athens: Ekdotike Athenon S.A., 2011. Journal of Hellenic Studies, Volume 133 , 2013 , pp. 281
- 2010 Gallery Guide Rediscovering Greece and Rome Cycladic cup, GR.7g.1923 (Case 1)
IT skills
Experienced user of museum databases. Proficient with Windows and OS X, including all standard software. Experience writing web pages (including this one) in HTML and using plantforms such as Squarespace and Wordpress. Can encode inscriptions in EpiDoc and 3D model objects in Blender.
Languages
Good Latin, French and modern Greek, basic ancient Greek, Italian and German.