Hayden Cawte (Director)
PhD
Hayden has been working as a heritage consultant for the last 20 years. He specialises in mining archaeology, pre-European New Zealand archaeology and urban archaeology, as well as the built environment, including heritage impact assessments, conservation planning and adaptive reuse of heritage and character property.
Hayden has an honours degree in anthropology, a post-graduate diploma in commerce, and a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Otago. He has attended University College London as a Marie Curie Fellow and the University of Cambridge as an Evans Fellow. He has also lectured at both the University of Otago and James Cook University, Australia.
Jessie Garland (Director)
MA
Jessie Garland is an archaeologist and material culture specialist. She has worked with the archaeology of Christchurch for over a decade, with an emphasis on the analysis and interpretation of 19th century material culture from the city. Jessie has an MA from the University of Otago and is currently undertaking doctoral research through La Trobe University, Melbourne, on the trade and supply of domestic commodities to Christchurch during the 19th century. She has a particular interest in the role that objects play in people’s lives and the stories that they can tell about the past on an individual and collective scale.
To learn more about why Jessie helped found Christchurch Archaeology Project, check out this blog post.
Katharine Watson (Chair)
PhD
Katharine is an archaeologist with over 20 years experience in the field. She founded and ran Underground Overground Archaeology throughout the post-earthquake period in Ōtautahi Christchurch. She sold the company in 2017 and embarked on her PhD, which drew on the data about 19th century houses demolished post-earthquake to learn about why people built the houses they did and to better understand life in 19th century Christchurch. She is a 2023 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellow and on the board of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga.
To learn more about why Katharine helped found Christchurch Archaeology Project, check out this blog post.
Banner image: K. Bone.