Meet the Committee
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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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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Sian HalcrowCommittee MemberDr Siân Halcrow is a Professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Otago. Her research interests lie in understanding major human transitions in the past through the experiences of the most vulnerable people in the population: infants and children. She also contributes to topical issues in her discipline through her work on the ethics of the study of human remains. Since 2007, Siân has had more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, and has gained grants from the Marsden Fund, Australian Research Council, FONDOCYT, Fullbright NZ, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and National Geographic. She is the Co-Editor-In Chief for Bioarchaeology International, and her co-edited book, The Mother-Infant Nexus in the Past: Small Beginnings, Significant Outcomes (Springer) has been used for the Research Excellence Framework (UK). Siân was the recipient of the Rowheath Trust Award and Carl Smith Research Medal, and the NZ Association of Scientists Hill Tinsley Medal.
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New Zealand Student RepresentativeComing Soon!
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Australian Student RepresentativeComing Soon!
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