Rate My Professor Caitlin D'Gluyas

Dr. Caitlin D'Gluyas is a Lecturer in Archaeology in the School of Social Science, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Queensland, where she also serves as Major Convenor for Archaeology and Archaeological Science. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities from the University of New England, Australia. With over twelve years of practical experience in archaeological investigations, she has worked on projects across Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and Norfolk Island in both research and commercial settings. For a decade, she was involved in cultural heritage management and commercial archaeology, developing expertise in project management, technical report writing, excavation, artefact analysis, and teaching practical field skills. Currently, she teaches ARCS2050 Historical Archaeology and ARCS3118 Managing Cultural Heritage, and maintains connections to the heritage sector through synthesis of archaeological legacy projects from colonial Australia. Recognised as a media expert on convicts, cultural heritage, heritage, and historical archaeology, her contributions bridge academic research and public engagement.

D'Gluyas's research examines the impacts and outcomes of British colonisation on people in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Australia, particularly convictism, expressions of capitalism and ideology at scales from individuals to landscapes. Her work also includes Bronze Age cultural and environmental change on the Arabian Peninsula. Key interests encompass environmental history, Indigenous experiences of the colonial world, landscape archaeology, historical studies of young people, more-than-human approaches, archaeological archives and data management, archaeological theory and methods, spatial analysis, Georgian period artefacts, and archaeological applications of GIS. Her doctoral research focused on a convict prison for youth, informing archaeologies of marginalised groups including women, children, First Nations people, and migrants. Selected publications include 'Ambiguous evidence in its place: the historical archaeology of young people in Australia' (2025, Childhood in the Past); 'An archaeology of the crime and punishment of young convicts: a view from colonial Australia' (2025, World Archaeology); 'At the edge of space: the archaeology of boundaries within a landscape for young convicts' (2024, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, with Richard Tuffin, Martin Gibbs, and David Roe); 'Another pit, another post-hole: are we learning anything new from Parramatta’s ‘convict hut’ sites?' (2024, Australian Archaeology, with Abi Cryerhall and Sophie Jennings); 'Future use or no future at all? An examination of post-excavation historical archaeological repositories in NSW' (2022, Australian Archaeology, with Martin Gibbs); 'Juvenile convict labour and industry: the Point Puer landscape' (2020, Journal of Australian Colonial History); and 'Everyday artefacts: subsistence and quality of life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania' (2015, Archaeology in Oceania, with Martin Gibbs, Chloe Hamilton, and David Roe). Her publications appear in leading journals, advancing understandings of colonial histories and archaeological methodologies.