Hallie Buckley

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Hallie Buckley
Alma mater University of Otago
AwardsMason Durie Medal (2022)
Scientific career
Fields Bioarchaeology
Institutions University of Otago
Thesis

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

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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] As of 2018, 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

References

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