About
Alicia is a freelance researcher (ethnohistorian and archaeologist) and writer 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.
She writes a Substack: Am up to stuff.
Background
Alicia is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and The Explorers Club. She's an Explorers Club honouree of the Class of 2022. and a recent Wiley Digital Research Fellow at the Royal Geographical Society, London.
Alicia have a PhD from McGill University, supervised by the late Professor Bruce Trigger, and a BA (Hons) from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. She's been a Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London and an Affiliated Fellow, Institutes for the Study of the Asia Pacific (ISAP), University of Central Lancashire, UK. She is fluent in four languages: Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. She is currently learning Italian, as why not. She believes in the value of citizen science.
Her passion to explain to explain to the widest audiences led her 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.
Alicia has published academic 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.