Colleen Morgan

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About Colleen Morgan

Colleen is the Senior Lecturer in Digital Archaeology and Heritage in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. She is the Director of the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab, the MSc in Digital Archaeology and the MSc in Digital Heritage. She was Marie Curie Experienced Researcher for the EUROTAST project from 2013-2015 and a postdoctoral fellow for the Centre for Digital Heritage from 2015-2017. She has an established international reputation as a leading scholar in critical digital archaeology and heritage. Her research contributions fall in three main areas: 1) bringing digital archaeology into conversation with current theory drawn from feminist, queer, posthuman, and anarchist approaches 2) multisensorial interventions and digital embodiment, with a focus on avatars of past people created from bioarchaeological data 3) issues surrounding craft, enskillment and pedagogy in analog and digital methods in field archaeology, including photography, videography, and drawing. Colleen is currently the PI on the UKRI-AHRC funded OTHER EYES project which confronts an emerging issue within archaeology: that of interpreting past people using digital technology. She is collaborating with York Museums Trust and interactive digital media specialists BetaJester and a large team of diverse researchers to create avatars based on Romano-British era human remains found in York. She is the Co-I of The Avebury Papers with Professor Mark Gillings of Bournemouth University to creatively investigate the extensive personal and archaeological archive at Avebury. Colleen is also the Co-I of the Aide Memoire Project with Professor Helen Petrie, Dr Holly Wright and Dr James Stuart Taylor, which investigates the role of drawing in digital archaeological recording. She also conducts archaeological fieldwork in the Arabian Gulf and in the United Kingdom. She is the author of over 25 peer-reviewed papers, has given 6 keynote lectures, has presented films at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California and the International Museum for Contemporary Sculpture in Santo Tirso, Portugal, contributed to photography exhibitions, built virtual worlds and blogs at: colleen-morgan.com. Key research interests Creative digital archaeology Archaeology and Heritage in Arabia Digital embodiment of past people Digital and analog media creation in archaeological knowledge production Sustainable approaches to digital technology Immersive storytelling, mixed reality, virtual reality and telepresence Cyborgs and robots in archaeology