Research projects

Islamic Baydha Project 2018-19

Project summary The Islamic Baydha Project focuses on a Middle to Late Islamic-period rural village...

Published:2021

Fallahin and nomads in the Southern Levant from Byzantium to the Mamluks: population dynamics and artistic expression

Project summary The project analyses the diachronic, fluctuating population dynamics of southern Palestine and Jordan...

Published:2021

The superior enemy: Muslims in medieval European literature and culture (1200-1500)

Project summary The impact of the geopolitical power of Islamic East on premodern European literature...

Published:2021

Jericho off the record

Project summary The project aims to gather, preserve, study and publish forgotten documentation from Kathleen...

Published:2021

Petra: The first excavation

Project summary This digital pilot project set out to present a contextualised transcript of the...

Published:2021

The mediation of forced migration: digital technologies and everyday experiences within refugee households

Project summary My research argues for an understanding of forced migrants as also digitally connected...

Published:2021

Health and related stress assessment in prehistoric Cypriot societies

Project summary In this project I assess the effect of the urbanisation process on health...

Published:2021

Performing alterity: The translocal politics of an urban youth music scene in post-Oslo Palestine

Project summary This ethnographic and gender-sensitive research traces the trans local politics of a self-defined...

Published:2021

Documenting, protecting and reviving the historic cultural heritage of Jordan

Project summary The aim of this project is to integrate scientific environmental archaeology techniques with...

Published:2021

Elusive Phoenicians: perceptions of Phoenician identity and material culture as reflected in museum records and displays

Project summary This project set out to understand the processes leading to the identification of...

Published:2021

The Makounta-Voules archaeological project

Project summary This travel grant enabled me to conduct analysis of ceramics found during an...

Published:2021

Syrian heritage and time in Azraq refugee camp, Jordan

Project summary This project originally set out to understand the complexity of nostalgia and time...

Published:2021

Investigating the function of Middle Bronze Age II Levantine weapons by wear analysis

Project summary Recent metallurgical analysis of Middle Bronze Age II (MB II; c.1900-1600 BCE) Levantine...

Published:2021

Algorithmic occupation

Project summary This project argues that patterns of mobility become increasingly influenced by how new...

Published:2021

Grassroots intellectuals of the Syrian revolution, 2011-2017

Project summary This research aims at understanding the role of Syrian grassroots intellectuals in the...

Published:2021