Shimona Kealy is currently employed under the Internship for Women/Researcher Exchange Grants scheme of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. She is works at the College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University. Shimona does research in Biogeography, Archaeology, Paleontology, and Phylogenetics.
Experience
–present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Australian National University
Education
2019
Australian National University, Doctor of Philosophy
2013
University of New South Wales, Bachelor of Science: Geology, Honours 1st Class
2012
University of New England, Bachelor of Science: Palaeobiology
Publications
2018
Least-cost pathway models indicate northern human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul, Journal of Human Evolution, 125, 59-70
2018
A geological and spatial approach to prehistoric archaeological surveys on small islands: case studies from Maluku Barat Daya, Indonesia, Kapata Arkeologi 4(1), 1-14
2017
Total evidence phylogeny and evolutionary timescale for Australian faunivorous marsupials (Dasyuromorphia), BMC Evolutionary Biology, 17, 240
2017
Reconstructing palaeogeography and inter-island visibility in the Wallacean Archipelago during the likely period of Sahul colonization, 65 - 45,000 years ago, Archaeological Prospection 24(3), 259-272
2016
Islands under the sea: a review of early modern human dispersal routes and migration hypotheses through Wallacea, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 11(3), 364-384
Grants and Contracts
2019
Humanities Travelling Fellowship
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Academy of Humanities
2019
Research Exploration Grant
Role:
Team Member
Funding Source:
National Geographic Society
2019
Internship for Women/Researcher Exchange
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage