My teaching is primarily in the art and archaeology of the Greek world. I offer modules on the Aegean Bronze Age; Greek Archaeology in our Ancient History and Archaeology programme, and I teach on the introductory modules in Greek and Roman Art and Architecture; Mythology and Religion; and Sources and Evidence in History and Archaeology. For our final year students I regularly offer modules on Ancient Goddesses and on the archaeology of Cyprus, and my contribution to our taught MPhil programme is a module on theoretical approaches to Aegean art. I studied Classics at Churchill College Cambridge, followed by a Ph.D. at University College London. I worked for the British School at Athens (at Knossos) and as research assistant to Colin Renfrew before coming to Trinity in 1994. I am the Trinity representative on the Managing Committee of the Irish Institute of the Hellenic Studies at Athens, and co-edited the Institute's first publication, The Lure of Greece (2007).

My main area of expertise is the archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age. Specific areas of interest include ceramic studies (pictorial pottery; figurines); ancient art; Mycenaean intercultural relations in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean; ancient religion (goddesses; experiential/embodied aspects). My work on the historiography of the goddess in early archaeology situates the study of goddesses and gender within the intellectual trends and ideologies of the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. I am also involved in a number of long-term archaeological projects in Greece, most notably the Atsipadhes peak sanctuary project in western Crete (in collaboration with Dr Alan Peatfield). This project has received IRCHSS funding to apply GIS technology to the spatial study of the figurines and pottery within the excavated site.