Biography
I am an archaeobotanist whose research focuses on Iron Age and Roman Britain.
I completed a Bachelor of Arts in Environment with Archaeology and English Majors and a Master of Arts in Archaeology at Simon Fraser University (Canada). My MA thesis was titled, ‘The Archaeological Foodscape of Roman Kent and Essex’ was supervised by Dr. Sabrina Higgins.
I recently defended my PhD, which was supervised by Prof. Martin Millett, in the Faculty of Classics, U. Cambridge. My thesis is titled, ‘An Archaeobotanical History of Arable Agriculture in Yorkshire (4000 BCE - 1100 CE)’.
I have been involved in the Aldborough Roman Town Project’s excavations at Isurium Brigantium for the last four years and have previously excavated at Pompeii.
Currently, I am the Research Assistant in the Economy of the Roman Fens on the Fenscapes project.
Research
My research concerns the development of arable practices across Iron Age and Roman Britain. I am particularly interested in bridging big-data approaches with site-specific analyses.
Key Publications
Fuks, D., A.F. Schmidt, M.I. Garica-Collado, M. Besseiche, N. Payne, G. Bosi, C. Bouchaud, E. Castiglioni, V.Dabrowski, S. Frumin, D. Fuller, R. Hovsepyan, S. Muthukumaran, L.Peña-Chocarro, G. Pérez Jordá, J. Ros, M. Rottoli, P. Ryan, R. Spengler, C. Stevens, S.M. Valamoti, E. Weiss, M. Alexander, M. Gros-Balthazard 2024 Orphan crops of archaeology-based crop history research. Plants, People, Planet. New Phytologist Foundation
