Anna Freed

(She/her) 2023 | MA The Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, University of East Anglia

Anna (she/her) completed her MA in The Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Sainsbury Research Unit, UEA, in October 2024. Her undergraduate degree was in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge. She is autistic, has chronic nerve pain, endometriosis, and Crohn’s, the latter two being diagnosed during her MA course.

Her interests lie in Indigenous and disability archaeologies, with her MA dissertation taking the form of focus groups with disabled people based in the US and UK on the topic of disability in the archaeological record. She hopes to further specialise in this field, centring multiply marginalised and Global Majority ways of knowing disability in archaeology, and embedding co-creation into disability archaeology methodologies.

She is a consultant for Disabled Students UK, a member of Scope’s Young Members Assembly, and Accessibility Officer for the Museum Ethnographers Group.

A headshot of Anna, a smiling white woman with long dark straight hair, hazel eyes, and a mole under her right eye. She is wearing a black dress with blue and white swirl accents, and her hair is pulled behind her ear on one side, showing a drop blue and green-gold leaf earring.