Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, I joined the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University in September 2022. Before moving to Australia, I was the NINO Postdoctoral Fellow in Egyptology at Leiden University (2020–22) with a project ‘Writing the self into history: Graffiti from Old Kingdom Saqqara’. I completed a DPhil in Egyptology at the University of Oxford, for which I was awarded a prestigous Clarendon Scholarship (2015–20) to support my studies. Before this, I completed a BA (Hons) and MA in Ancient History at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.

My research profile sits at the intersection of multiple sub-fields within Egyptology: philology, art history, and archaeological and anthropological theory. I have a particular interest in the materiality and multi-modality of ancient Egyptian language. I am currently working on a monograph with Bloomsbury entitled Lives and afterlives of ancient Egyptian names, which builds on my interest in anthopological approaches to the study of ancient Egyptian personal names. I also research graffiti on Old Kingdom monuments of the late 3rd Millennium BCE, and the multisensoriality and haptics of the graffiti-making process. I organised and chaired an international conference on this topic in December 2021 (‘Making and Experiencing Graffiti in Ancient and Late Antique Egypt and Sudan’) and the proceedings will be published with Peeters. My work has a particular focus on Saqqara, where I work with the Oxford Expedition to Egypt lead by Dr Yvonne Harpur and Paolo Scremin.

My teaching spans ancient languages and social history, with a particular focus on ancient Egypt. In 2024-2025, I am convening AHIS3150 Hieroglyphic Egyptian C, AHIS3102 Hieroglyphic Egyptian D, AHIS3201 Women and Gender in the Ancient World, and AHIS3000 Capstone in Ancient History and Archaeology. I also contribute lectures in a number of other graduate and undergraduate courses: FOAR8030 Research Methods, AHIS2250 Ancient Egypt: Culture and Society, AHIS3241 Dialogues of Ancient Cultures, and AHIS3001 Material Culture and Museum Studies.

I have convened graduate courses on photographic history of Egypt, Greece, and the Near East at Leiden University, and undergraduate courses and tutorials spanning museum-based and digital object handling, ancient Egyptian art and architecture, and civilisation and history at the University of Oxford and Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.

I welcome enquiries from prospective MRes and PhD candidates whose research interests align with my own, particularly in the art, language, and material culture of Egypt in the 3rd Millennium BCE (Early Dynastic Period through early Middle Kingdom). 

I am interested in supervising projects that overlap with my general research areas:

• archaeological semiotics and multimodality in art and language 
• art, language, and material culture of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom
• graffiti studies
• social anthropological theory in Egyptology

I am also open to co-supervising topics on museology, archival studies, and histories of archaeology, and histories of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand in Egypt.

I am one of two Faculty of Arts ECR Representatives at Macquarie University (2024 – ongoing). Since 2020, I have been a mentor for Australasian ancient history graduate students for Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies (AWAWS), and between 2013–15 I was the co-chair for the Auckland chapter of AWAWS. I have served as chair of the permanent committee of Current Research in Egyptology (2017–18) and was an elected member between 2016–18.