Michelle Negus Cleary

Experience

• –present
  PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney
• 2011–present
  Assistant researcher, University of Melbourne
• 2015–present
  Assistant researcher, La Trobe University

Education

• 1997 
  University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Architecture (Hons)
• 1994 
  University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Planning and Design (Arch)

Publications

• 2015
  Negus Cleary, M. “Kalas and Kurgans: some considerations on pastoralism within an ancient Central Asian oasis”., P. Nick Kardulias (ed.), The Ecology of Pastoralism, Colorado University Press.
• 2014
  Anderson, W., J. Birkett-Rees, M. Negus Cleary, D. Krsmanovic, N. Tskvitinidze. 2014. "Archaeological Survey in the south Caucasus (Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia): approaches, methods and first results.”, Anatolia Antiqua 22: 11-33
• 2013
  Negus Cleary, M. 2013. “Khorezmian walled sites of the 7th century BC – 4th century AD: Urban settlements? State strongholds? Mobile centres?”, Iran 51: 71-100
• 2012
  Kidd, F., M. Negus Cleary, and E. Baker Brite. 2012. "Public Vs Private: Perspectives on the Communication of Power in Ancient Chorasmia.", The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Central Asia: Regimes and Revolutions, edited by Charles W. Hartley, G. Bike Yazıcıoğlu and A. T. Smith, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 91-121.
• 2012
  Anderson, W., D. Krsmanovic, M. Negus-Cleary. “Ground Survey in Pessinus and its surroundings”. , G. Tsetskhladze (ed.), The Black Sea, Paphlagonia, Pontus and Phrygia in Antiquity: Aspects of Archaeology and Ancient History. BAR International Series 2432, London: Archaeopress: 307-312.
• 2009
  Betts, A.V.G., V.N. Yagodin, S.W. Helms, G. Khozhaniyazov, S. Amirov, and M. Negus Cleary. “The Karakalpak-Australian Excavations in Ancient Chorasmia, 2001-2005. Interim Report on the Fortifications of Kazakl'i-yatkan and Regional Survey.”, Iran (47): 33-55
• 2008
  Negus Cleary, M. “Walls in the Desert: the phenomenon of Central Asian Urbanism in ancient Chorasmia”., K. Parry (ed.), Art, Architecture and Religion on the Silk Roads: Turnhout : Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University; Brepols: 51-78.
• 2008
  Kidd, F.J., M. Negus Cleary, V.N. Yagodin, A.V.G. Betts and E. Baker-Brite. 2004 (2008). “Ancient Chorasmian Mural Art”. , Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 18: 69-95.
• 2007
  Negus Cleary, M. 2007. “The Ancient Built Landscape of Chorasmia: a new interpretation of a local Central Asian settlement pattern”., L. Popova, C. Hartley & A. T. Smith (eds.), Social Orders and Social Landscapes: Proceedings of the 2005 University of Chicago Conference on Eurasian Archaeology, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press: 334-358.
• 2002
  S. Helms, V.N. Yagodin, A.V.G. Betts, G. Khozhaniyazov, M. Negus. “The Karakalpak-Australian excavations in ancient Chorasmia: the northern frontier of the “civilised” ancient world.”, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, 39: 3-43.

Grants and Contracts

• 2009
  National Geographic-Waitt Research Grant

  Role:

  Primary Investigator

  Funding Source:

  National Geographic and Waitt Foundation

• 2009
  Cartherine Southwell-Keely Travel Grant

  Role:

  Primary Investigator

  Funding Source:

  Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation

• 2009
  Carlyle Greenwell Research Grant

  Role:

  Primary Investigator

  Funding Source:

  University of Sydney

Professional Memberships

• Society of American Archaeologists
• International Society for Archaeological Prospection
• European Association of Archaeologists