ASHB Annual General Meeting
The AGM is usually incorporated into the Annual Scientific Conference.
Agenda
The ordinary business of the Annual General Meeting is as follows:
The AGM is usually incorporated into the Annual Scientific Conference.
Agenda
The ordinary business of the Annual General Meeting is as follows:
- to confirm the minutes of the last preceding Annual General Meeting and of any general meeting held since that meeting
- to receive from the Executive Committee the Annual Report and statement of Annual Accounts for the preceding financial year
- to determine the entrance fee and annual subscription
- to elect the officers of the ASHB committee and confirm the election of the ordinary Executive Committee members.
Meet the Committee
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Alison BehiePresidentAlison Behie is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Biological Anthropology at The Australian National University. Alison’s research broadly focuses on how and why humans and other primates adapt in the face of severe environmental change. Her primate research has explored the impact of a hurricane on howler and spider monkeys in Belize and the impact of logging and habitat fragmentation on endangered primates in Vietnam and Cambodia. She is also currently an ARC DECRA fellow exploring how exposure to natural disasters may impact behavioural adaptations in monkeys and lemurs on an evolutionary timescale. Alison hopes to use the results of these projects to help make more informed conservation plans in the future. With regards to humans, she is interested in understanding how prenatal and early life stress impact the health and development of children. In addition to her role at ANU, Alison is also the volunteer ACT state coordinator for the Jane Goodall Institute Australia’s Roots and Shoots program.
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Nick MaloneVice PresidentNicholas Malone is an anthropologist at the University of Auckland with a broad interest in the social and ecological lives of primates, especially those of apes and humans. Specifically, he seeks to understand how the observed patterns of variability within and between taxa are simultaneously shaped by, and act as shaping factors of, evolutionary processes. Additionally, he strives to contribute to primate conservation through a commitment to engaging with local and extra-local efforts. Finally, he wishes to situate the study of primates within the broader contexts of anthropology, history, and research ethics. Malone’s writing is informed by research experiences in Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Sarah Croker
SecretaryDr Sarah Croker is a lecturer in the Discipline of Anatomy and Histology at The University of Sydney. She is interested in all areas of forensic anthropology and musculoskeletal anatomy, with a particular research interest in the identification of bone as human or non-human.
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Kate DomettTreasurerAssociate Professor Kate Domett is based in the College of Medicine and Dentistry at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland. Kate specialises in paleopathology but has a range of bioarchaeological research interests, predominantly focussing on the late prehistoric period in mainland Southeast Asia. Kate teaches human anatomy to undergraduate medical, allied health and biomedical science students as well as supervising higher degree students in biological anthropology.
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Melandri VlokSocial Media RepresentativeMelandri Vlok is a PhD student in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Otago. Melandri specialises in palaeopathology/ bioarchaeology and researches the implications for migration and trade on the presence of infectious and nutritional diseases in past populations in Asia.
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Rachel ScottCommittee MemberDr. Rachel Scott is an assistant research fellow within the biological anthropology group, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, Dunedin. Rachel has worked in Egypt, Chile, and the Pacific in archaeological and forensic contexts. She is experienced in the analysis of skeletal trauma, cremains, and dental microwear texture.
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Georgia RobertsCommittee MemberDr Georgia Roberts is an associate lecturer with Federation University Australia at Mt Helen, Victoria. Georgia has research interests in zooarchaeology, bioarchaeology and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction, focussing on cold-climate archaeology within Australia.
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Caitlin SmithNew Zealand Student RepresentativeCaitlin is a PhD student at the University of Auckland. Her current research focuses on the analysis of human remains from Bahrain using isotopes and physiological stress indicators. She is also part of a research project in South Australia at a site called Roonka.
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Lucille PedersenAustralian Student Representative
Lucille (Lucy) has recently completed her Masters at James Cook University and aims to commence a PhD in 2018. Her research has focused on trauma and conflict in prehistoric Southeast Asia.
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