Monday, 22 June 2020

Trowelblazers: Tabitha Kabora

I found it quite difficult to find details about any black British women archaeologists. American women archaeologists are much easier to find online - Black archaeologists in the United States have formed the Society of Black Archaeologists, but there's no similar body in the UK.
Then I found an article about a seminar on racism in archaeology, and the chair of the debate was Tabitha Kabora.
Dr. Kabora did her doctoral thesis at the University of York on the utility of the long-term perspectives of archaeological and environmental studies, in order to understand the effects of human-environment interactions on agricultural systems. Her research formed part of the Archaeology of Agricultural Resilience in Eastern Africa Project (AAREA).
Her BSc and MSc degrees were from the University of Nairobi, in Environmental Sciences and Conservation Biology. So she's actually Kenyan, and came to the UK for further study.
At the moment she's working on the Europe's Lost Frontiers project while employed by the University of Bradford as an Environmental Modelling Research Assistant. Her work is on Doggerland, the sunken area in the North Sea which used to be a land bridge between the British Isles and the Continent. She has been developing palaeo-ecological models of Doggerland during the early Holocene period to incorporate into computer simulations.

No comments:

Post a Comment