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Tera Corinne Pruitt

Research Assistant, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Email: tcp22@cam.ac.uk

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Current research interests

  • Museums, heritage management, and the politics of display
  • Science communication and public knowledge
  • Ethnographies of scientific practice
  • Balkans Neolithic and Aegean Prehistory
  • Alternative archaeology and pseudoarchaeology

Current projects

  • Research assistant for the redevelopment of the World Archaeology Gallery
    at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

  • PhD (2011) titled "Authority and the Production of Knowledge in Archaeology"
    used ethnographies of archaeological practice to study how and why
    scientific narratives are produced and accepted in the field of archaeology.