Rebecca Repper

I am currently a PhD candidate at the University of Western Australia associated with Collecting the West: How Collections Created Western Australia (CTW) (ARC Linkage Project LP160100078 (University of Western Australia and Deakin University)), Research Associate for the Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia project, and Submissions Editor for Limina: a Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies.

My research interests centre on an appreciation of and experience with management of photograph collections, and using these collections for research.

My PhD project applies my interest in photography and databases to the collections and collecting history of Western Australia. I am investigating whether documentation practices in institutions accurately capture and/or enhance our research using these collections, through the application of CIDOC-CRM. My interest in analysing documentation practices for photograph collections was born from managing and accessing collections for archaeological research.

My current role with the AAKSAU project builds on my previous research with the 'Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa' Project at the School of Archaeology at University of Oxford and the 'Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East' (APAAME) Project at the University of Western Australia. These roles have nurtured an interest and experience with Roman and Middle East artefacts and archaeology, collection and archival research, digitisation and database management/registration, and aerial photograph and remote sensing interpretation for archaeology. I am involved in aerial reconnaissance with the Aerial Archaeology in Jordan and Aerial Archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Projects. I have also participated in archaeological fieldwork in Spain, England and Lebanon.