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Alicia is a freelance researcher (ethnohistorian and archaeologist) interested in how people organise their mental worlds, worldviews and relationships with the places they inhabit. Her work brings together archival research, fieldwork and digital tools to explore how ideas about “the Other” – human and non-human – are created and reinforced. She's worked on topics ranging from Indigenous knowledge, archaeological theory, identity, the past in the archaeological record, visual culture and how looking at the past helps us question the categories we use today for people, animals and even technologies. 

Background

I'm an Affiliated Research Fellow at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. I'm a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Explorers Club. I'm also an Explorers Club honoree of the Class of 2022. I'm a recent Wiley Research Fellow

 

I have a PhD from McGill University, supervised by the late Professor Bruce Trigger and a BA (Hons) from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. I'm fluent in four languages: Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. I'm currently learning Italian, as why not. I believe in the value of citizen science.

 

My passion to explain to explain to the widest audiences led me to co-found Exploration Revealed, the Scientific Exploration Society's digital hybrid publication, with Briony Turner to showcase advances in knowledge and peer-to-peer support for those engaged with scientific exploration and adventure-led expedition.

 

I have published academic [link] articles and magazine articles in The Brussels Review, Adventure Uncovered, Appalachia Magazine, Sapiens Magazine, Contingent Magazine, Era Magazine, Whetstone Magazine, The Mantelpiece Literary Magazine, and First American Art Magazine amongst others.

 

I write a Substack: Am up to stuff.

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