Dr Trish Biers

Dr Trish Biers curates the Duckworth Collections (human and non-human primate remains) in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Department about ethics, repatriation, treatment of the dead, mortuary archaeology, and osteology. Her research focuses on the ethical curation of human remains and considerations for displaying the dead in museums and heritage sites. She has held positions in the Repatriation Osteology Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, and at the San Diego Museum of Us in California.  She recently co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage and Death.  She is also involved in research about witchcraft, folklore, and archaeology.