Michael Ashley, Board Member

Michael Ashley, Ph.D., is manager of new program development for the Office of the Chief Information Officer at UC Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley in 2004. Entitled 'An Archaeology of Vision,' his dissertation focused on digging beneath the 'subjectivity barrier' of human consciousness and how this articulates with the practice of our discipline. His interest in human vision and neuroaesthetics intersects with his passion for new media and is well-suited (he thinks) for working as an archaeologist in the digital age.

He is the Chair of the IT and Communications Task Force for the World Archaeological Congress, serves as Director of Educational Programming for the CyArk 3D Heritage Archive and on the Society for Historical Archaeology Website Advisory. He was the Media Team specialist for the Çatalhöyük Research Project for more than 7 years and is currently focused on developing open access systems for digital heritage. At the University of California, Berkeley, he is a Visiting Lecturer and the Executive Director of the Multimedia Authoring Center for Teaching in Anthropology, where students and faculty develop digital literacy through inquiry-based learning.

He hopes to continue working in the fields of vision, media, archaeology and cultural heritage until the end of his days. If this could somehow be combined with rock climbing and martial arts, all the better.

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