Her work focuses on British archaeologists in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
[2] She received a PhD from UCL in 2011 with a thesis entitled 'British archaeologists, social networks and the emergence of a profession', which explored the networks and lives of the archaeologists George Horsfield and Agnes Conway Horsfield; John Crowfoot and Grace Mary ‘Molly’ Crowfoot and John Garstang.
In 2012, she received an honorary mention for the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, an annual award for the best Social Sciences or Humanities PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in Britain.
[3] From 2013 to 2016 she held a British Academy postdoctoral research fellowship at UCL,[4] from which she produced the book Archaeologists in Print: Publishing for the People.
[7] She held a Council for British Research in the Levant Centenary Award in 2018 to create a digital resource of the diary of George Horsfield and Agnes Conway from the 1929 excavations at Petra.