I am an archaeologist, research associate, and sessional academic in the School of Humanities, Discipline of History and Archaeology. I am interested in archaeological theory, Roman archaeology and history, critical studies of the ancient world (broadly defined), and the archaeology of communities, particularly within the Roman provinces of southeastern Europe, most commonly Dalmatia. My doctoral research (re)examined scholarly conceptualisations of ‘Roman military communities,’ offering a posthumanist understanding of these communities as dynamic relational assemblages of humans, objects, signs, landscapes, and more. I work from a more-than-human assemblage thinking framework adapted from the writings of critical, posthumanist, and new materialist thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Ian Buchanan, Oliver Harris, Rachel Crellin, Rosi Braidotti, and Donna Haraway. Central to my research is addressing the tension surrounding ‘agency’ in posthumanist archaeology; a tension often observed by its critics. Recently, for example, as 2025 ACANS Junior Fellow, I studied how coins and humans were entangled in the ways power flowed through Roman military life. My interest in critical studies of the ancient world centres around decolonial (re)examinations. Most recently this has led to me using critical concepts from posthumanist theory to problematise and transcend the colonial and imperialist dimensions of Roman studies and archaeology. 

My practice is underpinned by tenets of digital archaeology, such as scripted computational analyses and relational database design, management, and sharing. I endeavour to contribute towards the development of efficient, theoretically informed, and culturally sensitive open practices within humanities research. I have been able to work towards some of these goals in my role as Research Associate on the MANTO project, where I have helped develop the database to include artefactual data and connect with other LOD datasets such as the Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project and Digital LIMC, as well as to develop its cultural heritage policy. 

I am also a practicing field archaeologist with survey, excavation, and pre/post-excavation experience on commercial and academic projects in Australia and Croatia.

I have convened a unit on Archaeological theory (AHIS7001: Material Worlds), in which I illuminated the dynamic and valuable nature of theory in archaeolgy and encouraged Master's students to openly yet critically embrace and apply theory in their own research.

I have also worked as a teaching assisant ('sessional academic') on several units in the School of Humanities, designing and delivering tutorial content, contributing to assessment design, grading assessments, and more for:

• AHIS1210: Studying the Past from the Bronze Age to Byzantium
• AHIS1300: Digging up the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology
• AHIS1301: World Archaeology
• AHIS2225: Rome and the Caesars
• AHIS2302: Archaeology and Society: Archaeological Evidence
• AHIS3000: Capstone Unit in Ancient History
• AHIS3005: Cultural Heritage and Public History
• FOAR7004: Arts Internship for Researchers
• AHIS8320: Under the Shadow of Vesuvius: Archaeology in Ancient Campania