Her science articles include one about the new field of epigenetics, the study of the forces that act on and effect alterations to DNA (not caused by change in sequencing) and another about the sensory abilities of animals that may have allowed them to have survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami for Salon.
[16] Her story about digital archiving for an politics and arts publication[17] won her Australian Society of Archivists' Mander Jones Award.
[20] In August 2018, BuzzFeed News published her story about physical and sexual abuse that allegedly happened at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont.
Kenneally was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered,[22] and Burlington's WCAX, the CBS affiliate which covered the 1993 complaint to the US district court.
This paper, which also challenged the ideas of Stephen Jay Gould,[26] importantly allowed many more researchers to treat the study of the evolution and origin of human language seriously.
[33] The book inspired, among other things, Australian painter Sidney Nolan to create his iconic series of paintings of Kelly that now hang in the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
[34][35] Kenneally herself wrote about the discovery of Kelly's skeleton for The New York Times in 2011,[11] and the article was in included in The Best Australian Science Writing 2012.