Professional Summary
Rose Wallington is a PhD student in Classical Archaeology with an interest in the Iron Age Aegean. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology and Classics from the University of Otago in 2025. Her Honours dissertation focused on cultural contact and exchange between Greeks and local communities in the northern Black Sea during the Archaic period, and she continues to be interested by migration, settlement, and exchange across the Mediterranean. She has excavated in Mérida, Spain, and Tutakahikura, Aotearoa New Zealand, as part of a collaborative project co-ordinated by Te Runanga o Moeraki and the University of Otago Archaeology Department.