NCACE Research Associate
Kyle will work as part of the Knowledge and Evidence Creation work package.
Kyle Lewis Jordan is a disabled early career archaeologist and curator who specialises in the study of disability in antiquity. He read both his BA and MA at University College London in Ancient History and Egyptology and in the Archaeology and Heritage of Egypt and the Middle East. Kyle has previously worked as a Curator for the Ashmolean Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford as part of the Curating for Change project, and for the Verulamium Museum in St Albans. Currently he is working as a freelancer in the arts and heritage space, consulting and educating both in museums and academia.
Kyle is deeply passionate about demonstrating antiquity's relevance to our contemporary world, and through the subject of disability, hopes to promote not only a more complex and nuanced understanding of the lived experiences and attitudes of ancient peoples, but also to encourage modern audiences to reflect on their own lived experiences and attitudes. For Kyle, histories of disability are "humankind in its truest form: sentient beings of flesh, blood and bone navigating complex times and geographies, relationships and dynamics, holding ourselves together by a sense of kinship forged in adversity, and given shape by acts of care."