My main areas of research interest are:

• The history of archaeology as a colonial discipline, focusing on British imperialist archaeology  in the Middle East, particularly Biblical Archaeology In Palestine. 
• British perceptions of Palestine in the 19th and 20th centuries and intersections with religion and Orientalism
• How the media was used by archaeologists and how the media used archaeology and archaeologists
• Photographic images of archaeology and archaeologists 
• The political use of the past
• The ‘past in present’ – how we relate to the past and how the past is portrayed and received in the present, such as egyptomania, classicism and portrayals of the ancient world.