Ronika Power#
| Membership Number: | 6457 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRALIA |
| Homepage(s): | https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/ronika-power |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1092-8131 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Professor of Bioarchaeology, Macquarie University (henceforth MQU), AUS (henceforth, AUS)
- 2020 - present Director, Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment (CACHE), MQU, AUS
- 2016 - 2021 Honorary Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2018 - 2020 Associate Professor of Bioarchaeology, MQU, AUS
- 2017 - 2018 Senior Lecturer in Bioarchaeology, MQU, AUS
- 2016 - 2017 Lecturer in Bioarchaeology, MQU, AUS
- 2014 - 2016 European Research Council Research Fellow (FRAGSUS Project), McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2013 - 2016 Research Fellow, Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2012 - 2016 Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2012 - 2014 European Research Council Research Fellow (Trans-Sahara Project), McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Archaeological science: Stable isotope analyses, palaeoproteomics, materials analyses
- Textual analyses
- Biological anthropology
- Material culture, mortuary behaviour
- Art: Representation, production
- Philosophy, historiography, ethics
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Learning Innovation Award Winner – Faculty of Arts Learning and Teaching Awards, MQU
- 2019 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales – The Royal Society of New South Wales is the oldest learned society in the Southern Hemisphere
- 2019 Winner of the Max Crawford Medal, Australian Academy of the Humanities - Max Crawford Medal is Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities
- 2019 Winner of a New South Wales Tall Poppy Science Award, Australian Institute of Policy and Science
- 2019 Winner of the Union Académique Internationale Early Career Award - This award was created by the Union Académique Internationale (Brussels)
- 2018 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London)
- 2016 Top Ten Discoveries of 2016: 10,000-Year-Old Turf War, Lake Turkana, Kenya: Awarded by Archaeology Magazine, Archaeological Institute of America; for M.M. Lahr, F. Rivera*, R.K. Power* et al. “Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter- gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya”, Nature 529: 394-398; doi:10.1038/nature16477 (*equal second authors).
- 2010 Australian Awards for University Teaching – Award for Programs That Enhance Learning: Telemachus Ancient History Mentor Program (Tele’s Angels). Australian Learning and Teaching Council
