Hallie Buckley Explained

Hallie Buckley
Fields:Bioarchaeology
Workplaces:University of Otago
Alma Mater:University of Otago
Thesis1 Title:Health and disease in the prehistoric Pacific Islands
Thesis1 Url:https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/6804
Thesis1 Year:2001
Awards:Mason Durie Medal (2022)

Hallie Ruth Buckley is a New Zealand bioarchaeologist and professor at the University of Otago.[1]

Career

Buckley completed her PhD at the University of Otago in 2001, with a thesis titled Health and disease in the prehistoric Pacific Islands.[2] She then joined the faculty at Otago, and was appointed a full professor in 2017.[3]

Buckley's research involves the chemical, bio-chemical and DNA analysis of human and animal remains. She has worked extensively at the archaeological site of Teouma, but her highest-profile work to date was on St John's Cemetery in Tokoiti, near Milton. The cemetery, holding mainly the remains of first-generation immigrants from the United Kingdom buried between 1860 and 1926, had already been extensively researched by a local community group. Buckley's team examined remains from unmarked graves and used a range of scientific techniques to match them with historical records.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9], she was planning a similar project on the Chinese cemetery at Lawrence.[10] [11] [12] [13]

Honours and awards

In 2019, Buckley was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship for bioarchaeological research into 19th century miners and settlers.[14] In 2022, Buckley was awarded the Mason Durie Medal by the Royal Society Te Apārangi, for "transforming the way we conceptualise the biomedical history of the ancestors of modern Polynesians, and ground-breaking discoveries of ancient disease in Asia".[15] Also in 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.[16]

Selected publications

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Profile, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago, New Zealand . Otago.ac.nz . 3 February 2018.
  2. Buckley . Hallie . 2001 . Doctoral thesis . Health and disease in the prehistoric Pacific Islands . OUR Archive, University of Otago . 10523/6804 .
  3. Web site: Professor Hallie Buckley's Inaugural Professorial Lecture – Evolutionary medicine: How bioarchaeology can address health and disease problems in the modern world, Events, University of Otago, New Zealand . Otago.ac.nz . 16 May 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  4. Web site: 30 May 2016, Unique forensic study of early Otago farmers proposed, Newsroom, University of Otago, New Zealand . Otago.ac.nz . 30 May 2016 . 3 February 2018.
  5. Web site: Gibb . John . 'Forgotten' cemetery offers health insights | Otago Daily Times Online News . Odt.co.nz . 17 November 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  6. Web site: New research method offers clues of early settlers . Newsroom.co.nz . 15 August 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  7. Web site: Milton burial project gives back names to people in unmarked graves . Stuff.co.nz . 24 July 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  8. Web site: Milton burial project 'a work in progress' to reveal the lives and deaths of early pioneers . Stuff.co.nz . 22 August 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  9. Web site: White . Samuel . Exhumed skeletons yield clues | Otago Daily Times Online News . Odt.co.nz . 26 July 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  10. Web site: Lawrence-Tuapeka Community Board backs major social and cultural projects . Stuff.co.nz . 22 November 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  11. Web site: Chinese gold miners burial study project proposed at Lawrence cemetery . Stuff.co.nz . 29 October 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  12. Web site: Positive community feedback for proposed Chinese burial project at Lawrence cemetery . Stuff.co.nz . 2 November 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  13. Web site: Researchers to look into mystery graves | Otago Daily Times Online News . Odt.co.nz . 18 November 2017 . 3 February 2018.
  14. Web site: Hallie Buckley . 2023-10-27 . Royal Society Te Apārangi.
  15. Web site: Research Honours Aotearoa winners celebrated in Te Whanganui-a-Tara . 2022-11-22 . Royal Society Te Apārangi.
  16. Web site: View our fellows . Royal Society Te Apārangi . 29 August 2023.

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