Hallie Buckley


Hallie R. Buckley is a New Zealand bioarchaeologist and professor at the University of Otago.

Career

Buckley completed her PhD at the University of Otago in 2001, with a thesis titled Health and disease in the prehistoric Pacific Islands. She then joined the faculty at Otago, and was appointed a full professor in 2017.
Buckley's research involves the chemical, bio-chemical and DNA analysis of human and animal remains. She has worked extensively at the archaeological site of Teouma, but her highest-profile work to date was on St John's Cemetery in Tokoiti, near Milton. The cemetery, holding mainly the remains of first-generation immigrants from the United Kingdom buried between 1860 and 1926, had already been extensively researched by a local community group. Buckley's team examined remains from unmarked graves and used a range of scientific techniques to match them with historical records., she was planning a similar project on the Chinese cemetery at Lawrence.

Selected publications