Sara Perry is an archaeologist. Her research focuses on public archaeology and the use of digital media in archaeology and heritage. She is the Director of Research and Engagement at

Museum of London Archaeology MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology) is an archaeology and built heritage practice and independent charitable company registered with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIfA), providing a wide range of professional archaeological servic ...

Biography

Perry has a BA and MA in

Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

from the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ...

. She completed her

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in 2011 at the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

, supervised by

Stephanie Moser Stephanie Moser is an archaeology professor and head of the department at the University of Southampton, England. Her work explores the exhibition and reception of the human past. Moser's research examines visual images from antiquity through the ...

, with a thesis titled: "The archaeological eye: visualisation and the institutionalisation of academic archaeology in London". Perry spent eight years teaching at the

University of York , mottoeng = On the threshold of wisdom , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £8.0 million , budget = £403.6 million , chancellor = Heather Melville , vice_chancellor = Charlie Jeffery , students ...

. She held the role of Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Management in November 2019 when she left the University to join MOLA. She is the head of Visualisation at the Neolithic site of

Çatalhöyük Çatalhöyük (; also ''Çatal Höyük'' and ''Çatal Hüyük''; from Turkish ''çatal'' "fork" + ''höyük'' "tumulus") is a tell of a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from appr ...

. In 2015 Perry was named as one of the Jisc '50 most influential UK higher education professionals on social media'. In 2016 she was nominated for the Times Higher Education Award for Most Innovative Teacher of the Year, as well as being awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award from the University of York. Perry was elected as a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries of London A society is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societ ...

on 25 March 2021.

Select publications

*Perry, Sara, 2019. "The Enchantment of the Archaeological Record". ''European Journal of Archaeology'' 22(3), 354–371. *Perry, Sara, Roussou, Maria, Mirashrafi, Sophia S., Katifori, A., and McKinney, Sierra, 2019. "Shared Digital Experiences Supporting Collaborative Meaning-Making at Heritage Sites". In Hannah Lewi, Wally Smith, Dirk vom Lehn, Steven Cooke (eds.), ''The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites''. London: Routledge. 143–156. *Perry, Sara, 2018. Why are Heritage Interpreters Voiceless at the Trowel's Edge? A Plea for Rewriting the Archaeological Workflow. Advances in Archaeological Practice 6(3), 212–227. *Perry, Sara, 2017. "Archaeology on television, 1937". ''Public Archaeology'' 16(1), 3-18. *Perry, Sara, 2014. "Professionalization: Archaeology as an ‘Expert’ Knowledge". In C. Smith (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology''. Springer. 6150–6159.

References

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