Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Trish is a bioarchaeologist and Affiliated Researcher at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. As a human skeleton and mummy specialist, she teaches about disease and death in the past at the Institute of Continuing Education. She is also the Death and Burial module coordinator for undergraduate studies at Cambridge. She has excavated all over the world but specialises in Ancient Peru which she blogs about on her website www.deadtorites.com.
Prior to coming to Cambridge for her PhD, she was an Associate Curator at the San Diego Museum of Man in California and an Adjunct Faculty member at San Diego City College.
Archaeology of the Americas (specifically craft production, political economy, and material culture), bioarchaeology of death and burial, anthropology of gender, biomolecular archaeology, the Columbian Exchange, and museum and heritage studies focusing on repatriation and indigenous visibility.
My PhD investigating the relationships between labour and gender, material culture and identity at an Inka Period cemetery: a regional analysis of provincial burials from Lima, Peru, combined human skeletal data, burial deposition, and ethnohistoric documents to assess identity of artisans under Inka (AD 1435-1532) provincial control.
My recent research has been accepted for publication by the University College London Press for a two volume forthcoming title in 2016. This publication among others, exhibits my continued commitment to disseminate archaeology in the public sector. These many facets of my role in Cambridge reflect the true focus of my efforts which is teaching about anthropology and archaeology to a diverse audience.
American Anthropological Association (AAA) & Archaeology Division (AD)
British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteology (BABAO)
Society of Anthropology in Community Colleges
Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA)
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Paleopathology Association (PPA)
Institute of Andean Studies (IAS)
Anatomical Society, UK
Museums Association
