· Visual and Material Cultural Theory, Intellectual History, Archaeological Theory, Modern and Contemporary Art, Heritage and Museum Studies and Irish History

Current Positions

· 2007-08 Director & Curator, Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities, 6^th World Archaeological Congress, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin

· 2008 Post-doctoral Fellow, Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin

· 2008-10 Project Director,Irish contribution to Transformations, a European Commission funded land art initiative - University College Dublin and Sculpture in the Parklands, the Lough Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly (with Kevin O'Dwyer)

Previous Positions

· 2007-08 NEH Keough Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame

· 2006-07 Research Associate, Digital Image Project, School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity College

· 2004-07 Instructor, 'Learning for Historians: Research skills for the information age', Department of History, Trinity College

· 2001-07 Installer and Invigilator, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

· 2002-05 Manager, Trinity College Student's Union Bookshop

Ph.D. Thesis

· 2006 Trinity College, University of Dublin, History & Archaeology

Education

· 2002-06 Ph.D. Trinity College, University of Dublin

Subjects: History & Archaeology Supervisor: Prof. Terence Barry

· 1998-02 B.A. (Hons) Trinity College, University of Dublin

Teaching Experience

· 2007 'Art and art(e)facts: Mediation, materials and mentalities in Ireland'

Undergraduate Seminar - Art and Archaeology course, School of Archaeology, University College Dublin

· 2007 'The constitution of heritage in Ireland'

Graduate Seminar - MA course in Arts Management and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin

· 2007 'Tara: Landscapes, Heritage and Identities’ & 'Heritage Management and Interpretation'

Seminar & Workshop - Archaeology of Ireland course, Departent of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame

· 2007 'Materialsing Ireland:The Role of Archaeology in the Culutral and Political Developments of 19th century Ireland’

Lecture - Trinity Access Programme, Trinity College

· 2007 ‘Design and the Built Environment: Urban Archaeology in Dublin, Ireland’

· 2004-07 ‘Learning for Historians: Research Skills for the Information Age’

· 2004 ‘Constructing Identities: Archaeology, Artefacts and Monuments’

Lecture - Trinity Access Programme, Trinity College

Research Experience

· 2006-07 Digital Image Project, School of Histories & Humanities, Trinity College

Research Funding Obtained

· 2008 Grant from Foras na Gaeilge

For: 6th World Archaeological Congress & Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities

· 2006-07 Research Capacity Building Scheme, Trinity College

For: Digital Image Project

· 2006-07 Grant from the Provost Fund for the Visual Arts, Trinity College

Publications

· Forthcoming The Unquiet Past: Theoretical perspectives on archaeology and cultural heritage, Ashgate, Aldershot. (edited with Stephanie Koerner)

· Forthcoming ‘"Can you see me now?": Archaeological sensibility breaking the "fourth wall" of the analog:digital divide' in V. O. Jorge & J. Thomas (eds.) Archaeology and the politics of vision in a post-modern context. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Read the intervention debrief here.

· 2008 ‘Estranged Lands: The art of the Peatlands' in 2008 Interntational Peatlands Congress arts exhibition catalogue, foreword. Also published in Sceal na Mona, Summer 2008.

Read it here.

· 2007 ‘Heritage, identity and roots: A critique of arborescent models of heritage and identity' presented at Heritage Vales: The Past in Contemporary Society Workshop (15-17 Nov 2007), National Parks Service, Cumberland Island, Georgia (proceedings forthcoming).

· 2007 'Tara: Re-routing the Debate' in The Irish Times, 28 July (with Pat Cooke and Gabriel Cooney)

Read it here.

· 2007 ‘Objects and Agency: Some Obstacles and Opportunities of Modernity’, Overcoming the Modern Invention of Material Culture, Journal of Iberian Archaeology (vols. 9/10), V. O. Jorge & J. Thomas (eds.), 71-87.

Read it here.

View the accompanying photo-essay here.

· 2007 ‘Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto’, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, vol. 17(1), 3-19. (with Andrew Cochrane)

Read it here.

· 2006 Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology, Springer-Kluwer, New York.

Read exceprts and reviews here.

· 2006 ‘Freud and Volkan: Psychoanalysis, Group Identities and Archaeology,' Antiquity, vol. 80, no. 307, 185-95.

Read it here.

Electronic Publications

· 2007 'I've seen Banksy. Have you?', Archaeolog

<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2007/10/ive_seen_banksy_have_you.html#more>

· 2007 'Now, I can see you. The politics of presence and an intervention by Ian Russell into 'Can you see me now?' by Blast Theory and the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham’, Critical Studies in New Media, Stanford Humanities Lab

<http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/NewMedia/278>.

· 2007 'Mynydd Epynt: A serendipitous encourter from Ireland', Critical Studies in New Media, Stanford Humanities Lab

<http://humanitieslab.stanford.edu/NewMedia/290>.

· 2007 'Association of Social Anthropologists 2007: A Highlight ’, Archaeolog (with Andrew Cochrane)

<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2007/05/association_of_social_anthropo.html>.

· 2007 ‘TAG 2006: A Highlight’, Archaeolog (with Andrew Cochrane)

<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2007/03/tag_2006_a_highlight.html>.

· 2006 ‘CHAT 2006: Some Highlights’, Archaeolog (with Andrew Cochrane)

<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2006/12/chat_2006_some_highlights.html>.

· 2006 ‘Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology’, Archaeolog (with Andrew Cochrane)

<http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/2006/11/reflexive_representations_the.html>.

· 2006 ‘Reflexive Representations [1]: South Metope XXVII’, Archaeography (with Andrew Cochrane)

<http://archaeography.com/photoblog/archives/2006/11/reflexive_representations_1_so.shtml>.

· 2006 ‘Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology’, European Journal of Archaeology (with Andrew Cochrane)

<http://eja.e-a-a.org/2006/09/16/eaa-exhibition-reflexive-representations>.

Editorial Experience

· 2008- Critical Archaeology - an e-journal of archaeological debate and criticism.

· 2007-08 The Unquiet Past: Theoretical perspectives on archaeology and cultural heritage (forthcoming). (with Stephanie Koerner)

· 2005-06 Images, Representations and Heritage: Moving beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology, Springer-Kluwer, New York.

· 2001-02 Icarus: Literary and Arts Journal, Dublin University Publications.

See 2001-2002 issues here.

Lectures given by invitation

· 2008 'Mediating post-Hibernian archaeologies: Archaeology, humedia and undercutting the discourses of "mateiral culture" in Ireland', Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1 February.

· 2008 'Deploying an archaeological sensibility: Preforming an interventionist manifesto', Archaeology Center, Stanford University, 23 January.

· 2007 'Art and art(e)facts: Mediation, materials and mentalities in Ireland', School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, 22 November.

· 2007 'Humans, materials and media: Overcoming the modern invention of material culture', Center for Archaeology, Columbia University, 1 November.

· 2007 'Objects and Agency: Some Obstacles and Opportunities of Modernity', Archaeology Center, Stanford University, 24 May.

· 2007 'Archaeology and New Media: Some Interventions and Explorations', Politics of Presence Colloquium, Critical Studies in New Media Group, Humanities Lab, Stanford University, 23 May.

Papers Presented

· 2008 'The Interventionist Manifesto: Mediating Worlds' (with Andrew Cochrane)

Theoretical Archaeology Group - New York, U.S.A.

· 2008 'Undercutting the roots of the great divides' (with Andrew Cochrane)

Theoretical Archaeology Group - New York, U.S.A.

· 2008 'A heritage of constitutional racism: Heritage, archaeology and the making of an exclusive Ireland'

American Conferece for Irish Studies - Davenport, IA, U.S.A.

· 2007 'L'Art du déplacement: Parkour and some physical re-engagements with archaeology' (with Andrew Cochrane)

Theoretical Archaeology Group - York, U.K.

· 2007 '"Now, I can see you.": Bringing an archaeological sensibility to bear on digital media through the politics of presence'

Theoretical Archaeology Group - York, U.K.

· 2007 'Heritage, identities and roots: A critique of arborescent models of heritage and identity'

· 2007 'The Crisis of Representing Ireland: Arts and Art(e)facts'

· 2007 ‘An Ireland against Archaeology: The Crisis of Archaeology, Heritage and Development in Ireland'

· 2006 ‘Visualizing Archaeologies: A Manifesto’ (Plenary Paper) (with Andrew Cochrane)

· 2006 ‘Nostalgic Futurism, Conflicting Temporalities and the Politics of Preservation’

· 2006 ‘An Artefact as Agent?: Images, Imaginations and the Perception of the Past’

· 2006 ‘Visualizing Archaeologies: Reflexive Representations’ (with Andrew Cochrane)

· 2006 ‘Art and Art(e)fact: The Crisis of (re)Presenting Ireland’

· 2006 ‘The Archaeological Imagination: The Role of Archaeology in Social Imagination and Identity Construction’

· 2006 ‘Nostalgic Futurism, Conflicting Temporalities and Archaeological Epistemic Conflict’

· 2006 ‘Archaeology and Identity in Ireland: The Modern Romance’ - Crosscurrents – Belfast, U.K.

· 2006 ‘The Crisis of (re)Presenting Ireland’ - National Gallery of Ireland – Dublin, Ireland

· 2005 ‘Artefact and Image: Archaeology and the Crisis of (re)Presentation of the Past’,

· 2004 ‘Object Agency vs. Internalization: The Objects and Images of the Archaeological Imagination’

· 2004 'Artefacts, Souvenirs and Images of the Past'

· 2004 ‘“The History of Ireland in Silver or Gold”: Souvenirs, Archaeology and Identity Consumption in Ireland’

· 2004 ‘Vikings, Normans and Celts: The Archaeology, Politics and Protests of Wood Quay, Carrickmines and the Tara Motorway’

· 2003 ‘Archaeology after Freud: The Role of Archaeology in the Construction of Large Group Identity’

· 2003 ‘Archaeology after Freud: The Role of Archaeology in the Construction of Large Group Identity’

Conferences, Colloquiums & Sessions

· 2008 6^th World Archaeological Congress, School of Archaeology , University College Dublin

Programme Committee Member

Theme Organiser: 'Archaeologies of Art'

Theme Organiser: 'Archaeological Theory? Legacies, burdens, futures'

Session Organiser: 'Excavating Francis Bacon's Studio'

Session Organiser: 'Ábhar agus Meon / Materials and Mentalities: The exhibition'

· 2007 'Heritage Values: The Past in Contemporary Society' - Invited workshop participant, in association with Cumberland Island National Seashore, Southeast Archaeological Center, Hamline University, Nothern Land Use Research, Inc. and Statistical Research, Inc.

· 2007 'Politics of Presence - the Colloquium' - Invited colloquium participant, in association with Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford Humanities Lab, Metamedia in the Stanford Archaeology Center and The Presence Project

· 2007 8th Cambridge Heritage Seminar – Chair and Discussant 'Cultural heritage and the politics of disaster'

· 2007 Postgraduate Form in Byzantine Studies: Sailing to Byzantium – Trinity College Dublin – Chair 'Archaeology and Art History'

· 2007 Association of Social Anthropologists – London, U.K. – Session Organiser and Chair ‘Modernising Archaeological Tourism: From Image Conflict to Archaeological Expressionism' (with Andrew Cochrane)

· 2006 European Association of Archaeologists – Cracow, Poland – Session Chair ‘The Unquiet Past: Cultural Heritage and the Uncertain Social Geography of Risks of Exposure to Ecological Hazards and Political Violence’

· 2004 European Association of Archaeologists – Lyon, France – Session Organiser and Chair ‘“A souvenir from...”: Tourism, Heritage Industries and the Development of Archaeology’

· 2004 Association of Young Irish Archaeologists – Dublin, Ireland – Conference Organiser

Exhibitions

· 2007-08 Ábhar agus Meon: Materials and Mentalities exhibitions series, Curator, Summer 2008, Dublin, Ireland

· 2006 ‘Reflexive Representations: The Partibility of Archaeology’ - Art collaboration with Andrew Cochrane

exhibited at: European Association of Archaeologists – Cracow, Poland Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory – Bristol, U.K. Theoretical Archaeology Group – Exeter, U.K.

permanent displays at: Trinity College Dublin (Classics Department) & Ironbridge Gorge Museum

· 2006 ‘Open House Dublin 2006’, Curatorial Consultant for Trinity College

Research Projects & Collaborations

· Anglo-Irish-American antiquarians and early modern science - An international collaborative research project under the Bibliotheca Universalis Antiquaria:

Susan Alcock, Professor and Director, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University

Giovanna Ceserani and Michael Shanks, Professors, Department of Classics, Stanford University

Harriette Hemassi, University Librarian, Brown University

Richard Hingley, Reader, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham

Henry Lowood, Curator, History of Science and Technology, Stanford Libraries

Ian Russell, NEH Keough Faculty Fellow, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame

Alain Schnapp, Professor, Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Founding Director, Institut national de l'Histoire de l'Art (INHA) Paris

Christopher Witmore, Research Fellow, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown University

· Archaeopaedia - a glossary of the archaeological imagination (with Stanford Metamedia)

· Visualizing Archaeologies - An art research collaboration with Andrew Cochrane exploring the application of arts practice and visual cultural theory to the expression of archaeological narratives in new and emerging media.

· Transformations - A land art collaboration between University College Dublin and Sculpture in the Parklands, Lough Boora Parklands, Co. Offaly, Ireland with Andrew Cochrane, Pat Cooke, Gabriel Cooney and Kevin O'Dwyer

· project humedia - A meeting of like minded media with Andrew Cochrane, Aaron Watson and Christopher Witmore

· Politics of Presence: The Colloquium - Critical Studies in New Media, Stanford University, 2007

· The Angel of History - an exploration of the life and thought of Walter Benjamin through performance in collaboration with Matthew Torney and Man in Boat theatre company - August 24-25, 2007, The American Living Room Festival, Here Arts Center, New York

Visual & Performing Arts Experience

· 2007-08 Curator, Ábhar agus Meon exhibitions series, Summer 2008, Dublin Ireland

· 2007 Dramaturge and Theoretical Consultant, The Angel of History, The American Living Room Festival, Here Arts Center, New York

· 2001-07 Installer, Invigilator and Guide, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin

· 2007 Vocal Performer, Crux Vocal Ensemble

· 2007 Vocal Performer, The television recording of The Birth of Christ by Andrew T.Miller

· 2006-07 Stage Manager, Street Performance World Championship

· 2003 Choir Member, Candide by Voltaire , The Performance Corporation, Dublin

· 2001-02 Editor-in-Chief, Icarus: Literary & Arts Journal, Dublin

Media Coverage

· 2007 ‘World Archaeological Congress Sponsors Groundbreaking Exhibition’ in Current Archaeology, no. 213 (December), 8.

· 2006 ‘Briefing’ in British Archaeology, no. 21 (November/December), 58.

· 2006 ‘Goobledegook Corner’ in Current Archaeology, no. 205, 46.

Academic Honours, Awards & Prizes

· 2004-05 Government of Ireland Broad Curriculum Studentship

· 2002-04 Trinity College Dublin Postgraduate Studentship

· 2002 Award for Excellence, National Student Media Awards

· 2001 News Photographer of the Year, National Student Media Awards

· 2000 Marshall Porter Memorial Prize, School of Classics, Trinity College

· 1999 Carson Biblical Prize, School of Hebrew, Biblical and Theological Studies, Trinity College

Professional Memberships & Affiliations