Rate My Professor Caitlin D'Gluyas

Dr Caitlin D'Gluyas serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, Classics and History at the University of New England. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Humanities from the University of New England, with her thesis Landscapes of a Juvenile Institution: A Multiscalar Historical Archaeological Study of Point Puer, 1834-1849 receiving the Maureen Byrne Award for Best Postgraduate Thesis from the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology in 2023. Appointed as a fixed-term Lecturer in February 2023, her work bridges academia and cultural heritage management.

D'Gluyas specializes in Australian archaeology, focusing on young child convicts and convict landscapes. Her research integrates landscape archaeology, historical archaeological theory, artefact analysis, GIS spatial analysis, and studies of young people in history. She contributes to the UNE Convict History Research Collective and ARC Discovery projects, including the first settlement at Norfolk Island (1788-1814) and Point Puer investigations. She also works on commercial projects at convict sites in Parramatta and Sydney. Key publications encompass 'At the Edge of Space: The Archaeology of Boundaries within a Landscape for Young Convicts' (2024, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, co-authored with Richard Tuffin, Martin Gibbs, David Roe), 'Juvenile Convict Labour and Industry: The Point Puer Landscape' (2021, Journal of Australian Colonial History), 'Everyday Artefacts: Subsistence and Quality of Life at the Prisoner Barracks, Port Arthur, Tasmania' (2015, Archaeology in Oceania, co-authored with Martin Gibbs, Chloe Hamilton, David Roe), 'An Archaeology of the Crime and Punishment of Young Convicts: A View from Colonial Australia' (2025, World Archaeology), and 'Ambiguous Evidence in its Place: The Historical Archaeology of Young People in Australia' (2025). Her contributions extend to research seminars, field excavations, and public engagement in historical archaeology.