Meet the Committee
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Georgia StannardPresidentDr Georgia Stannard is a Lecturer at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Her research interests fall within both modern and palaeo time frames, focusing broadly on the interaction between Aboriginal Australians and their environments. She is particularly interested in human adaptation to Australian cold climates, with current research projects located within Tasmania and the Southern Australian Alps. Complementing this is her interest in reconstructing past environments, investigating the intersection of landscapes, ecology and people. Dr Stannard is an emerging national leader in archaeological education, extending from Primary through to Tertiary contexts, and is co-editor and project director of the Australian Archaeological Skills Passport. She has a strong research focus on developing archaeology-specific pedagogies within Australia, strongly linked to the decolonisation of the discipline and the recentering of Traditional knowledges within our teaching practices.
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Justyna MiszkiewiczVice PresidentJustyna is a biological anthropologist specialising in bone histology of humans and other mammals. She works with modern, archaeological, and palaeontological samples. She is currently an ARC Future Fellow at the University of Queensland and an honorary Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (The Netherlands). Her current research focuses on social and temporal dynamics of bone remodelling in humans to better explain modern day osteopenia and osteoporosis. Her other research interests include bone histology of fossil mammals from insular environments. She has more than 65 publications spanning topics in bioarchaeology, skeletal biology, and palaeontology. She is currently Editor-in-Chief of Anthropological Review and Review Editor of Human Bioarchaeology & Paleopathology (Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology).
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Christine CaveSecretaryChristine Cave is an Honorary Research Associate and casual lecturer in Archaeology at the Australian National University. Her primary research focus is exploring marginalised groups in the archaeological record through mortuary archaeology, with an emphasis on the elderly, children, and differently abled individuals. Geographically she has had a major focus on Early Anglo-Saxon England but has also excavated in the Philippines on an early Metal Age jar burial site. During Covid times she found a focus locally on modern and historical cemeteries but is still enthusiastic about identifying the invisible elderly in archaeological contexts.
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Sarah CrokerTreasurerDr Sarah Croker is a researcher and senior lecturer in forensics and anatomy at the University of Sydney.
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Stacey WardSocial Media RepresentativeDr Stacey Ward is a Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology at the Australian National University. Her research is primarily based in Southeast Asia and has focused on topics such heavy metal exposure among early Bronze Age metallurgists in Thailand, cremation practices in historic Laos, and the relationship between health and social inequality in Iron Age Thailand. Stacey also conducts research exploring ethics and education in Biological Anthropology, and has previously assisted with the repatriation of Indigenous skeletal remains. In a past life, Stacey worked as a contract archaeologist. She has archaeological and bioarchaeological field experience in New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Israel and Peru.
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Heather BattlesCommittee MemberHeather Battles is a Lecturer in Anthropology at the Unversity of Auckland. Her research applies an interdisciplinary biocultural approach to understanding the evolution and ecology of infectious diseases in human populations and their impacts (biological and social). Her interests span the disciplines of bioanthropology, historical demography and epidemiology, medical anthropology, and social history. Her main focus is the history of epidemic diseases, from patterns of morbidity (incl. long-term sequelae) and mortality to prevention and control efforts (e.g. vaccination). Heather has also been involved with fundraising and awareness-raising for the global eradication of polio through Rotaract.
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Yan LuiStudent RepresentativeUniversity of Auckland
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Emma SudronStudent RepresentativeEmma is a PhD Candidate at Griffith University, where she researches nursing histories and early childhood stress using stable isotopes from teeth. She completed her undergraduate and honours studies in archaeology and biological anthropology at the University of Otago, so hopefully can be a friendly face to ASHB's students both in Australia and across the ditch in Aotearoa as well!
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Yan LiuStudent RepresentativeText coming soon!
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