1976 - 1992 Print and television journalist, news producer and photojournalist (regional, national press, and ITV) .

1992 - 1995 Mature undergraduate in Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Oxford.

1995 - 1999 D.Phil at Oxford, doctoral thesis: "Fieldwork: archaeology in the poetic past of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney".

1997 to 1998 – Awarded Scatcherd European Scholarship to research thesis in Dept of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Selected for Ann Enright’s fiction workshop.

1999 - 2003 Hon. Research Associate, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford. Part-time lecturer (devised series on archaeology and the arts).

1995 - 2005 – Faculty member, ASA American High School Summer Program at Oxford, devising and teaching pre-college courses on archaeology and anthropology, journalism, creative writing.

2003 - 2005 Hon. Writer-in-Residence, University of Bradford.

2004 & 2006 Teaching Faculty, University of Oklahoma Oxford summer school (archaeology tutor)

2005 - Hon. Writer Fellow, University of Bradford; Visiting Fellow in Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol (lecturing on Archaeology for Screen Media, Contemporary/Historical Archaeology).

2006 - Intensive Foundation, Slade School of Fine Art Summer School, UCL, London

Awards and Fellowships

2005 Visiting Baldwin Professor of Art, Oberln College, Ohio, US (lectures on archaeology and the arts)

2003 Shortlisted for Arts Council Writers Award.

2003 Shortlisted for Leverhulme Award.

2003 Finalist in BBC TV Factuals Talent initiative.

2002 Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

1989 Reuter Journalist Research Fellow at Oxford.

1988 Kent Journalist of the Year

Publications (books and blogs):

The Lantern and the Laptop: Travels in Technology (in progress)

Ice Without, Fire Within: a life of Jacquetta Hawkes (pub TBN)

2005, A life on line: Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeo-poet (at http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/ChristineFinn/home)

2005, An archaeologist's year in Rome, Metamedia Lab, Stanford.

2004, Past Poetic: archaeology in the poetry of WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney (Duckworth)

2003 Ancient Muses: archaeology and the arts (University of Alabama Press) co-editor with John Jameson and John Ehrenhard.

2001/2 Artifacts: an archaeologist’s year in Silicon Valley (MIT Press)

2001 Outside Archaeology: material culture and the poetic imagination (BAR) co-editor with Martin Henig.

Academic papers, book chapters, and essays include:

2006 'Darkness disseminated' in M.Brittain and T.Clack eds. Media's Past, Univ of London Press (in press).

2006 'Bog bodies and Bog Lands: Trophies of Science, Art and the Imagination' in Image meaning heritage: Movements beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology (working title), ed I.Russell, Springer-Kluwer, NY.

2005 The Edge Annual Question http://www.edge.org/q2005/q05_3.html#finn

2005 Contributor to What we Believe but Cannot Prove, ed. John Brockman, Free Press, NY/HarperCollins UK.

2005 The Problem of different technologies in the making of a short film (Strange Powers) in Proceedings of 2004 Workshop on Computers and Archaeology, Vienna.

2004 ‘Maybe art or artefact: Cornelia Parker and the body behind glass’ in special volume on Archaeology and the Arts, Archaeology Review from Cambridge, Spring.

2004 The Edge Annual Question http://www.edge.org/q2004/page3.html#finn

2004 Essay on Jacquetta Hawkes, New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.

2003 Strange Powers: bog bodies and bog lands, catalogue essay, University of Bradford, UK.

2003 The Edge Annual Question http://www.edge.org/q2003/q03_finn.html

2003 Devised and directed video installation, ‘Strange Powers’.

2004 ‘White Horse Hill’ a study of oral history and popularity, in Uffington Hill Fort excavation report, Oxford University and Oxford Archaeological Unit.

2003 ‘Capturing the Wanderer: archaeology and the filming of The English Patient’ in Ancient Muses.

2003 ‘Poetry and archaeology: the transformative process’, in Ancient Muses.

2003 ‘Bits and pieces: a mini survey of computer collecting’, Industrial Archaeology Review, winter.

2003/04 Contributor, Edge Foundation Annual Question. www.edge.org

2002 A little souvenir: The Marquess and the Mycenaean columns. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 21(1):1-12.

2000 ‘Ways of telling: Jacquetta Hawkes as film-maker’, Antiquity, vol. 74, March.

2000 'Art or Artifact: the bog body as image' in Archaeological Sensibilities, eds F Campbell, and J. Hansson, University of Göteborg.

1999 ‘Sex and “Coagulated Sunlight”: Butter in literary context’ in Food and the Arts: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery.

1999 ‘Words from kept bodies: the bog as inspiration’, in Bog Bodies, Sacred Sites and Wetland Archaeology, Proceedings of the 1996 WARP Conference ed. B.Coles, J.Coles and M.S. Jorgensen, Nat. Museum of Denmark, Prehistoric Society.

1997 ‘Leaving more than footprints: the problem of modern votive offerings at Chaco Canyon prehistoric site’, Antiquity, March, 1997.

1997 Archaeology contributor, Hutchinson Encyclopedia, Oxford and London.

Creative:

Silicon Valley photographs published in Artifacts (2001), also travel images in World and She magazine; photos used in Down a Rainbow video performance, Bradford (2004).

Poetry published in

1996 Oxford and Cambridge May Anthology (ed Simon Armitage)

1997 The Reader, Oxford

1998 College Green, Trinity College, Dublin

Curating/art installations

2006 "Leaving Home: video version" at CHAT contemporary archaeology conference, University of Bristol.

2006 Final exhibition (student show) Summer School Foundation, Slade School of Fine art, University College London.

2005, Collective Memory (showing Strange Powers non-narrative DVD) St.Pancras Church Crypt, London www.geocities.com/memoirecollective. (Arts Council funded group sculptor show).

2004, Sonya’s Office at 21 New Fetter Lane, London www.geocities.com/sonyasoffice (Photographs and sculpture)

2004, Strange Powers: bog bodies and boglands, Gallery II, Bradford (Curator and video maker)

2004, Partners in Stone: Jacquetta Hawkes, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, a library exhibit at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (Curator)

Broadcasting/presentations include

2006 BBC Radio 3 “Leaving Home” widely reviewed Twenty Minute feature in which I ”excavated” my family home after the loss of my parents.

2006 BBC Radio 3 “I'll Dig with it” - a forty minute feature on poetry and archaeology (also BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Week)

2006 BBC Radio 3 “Yeats in Bits” Twenty Minute feature on the influence of ancient mosaics on the poetry of WB Yeats.

2005 BBC Radio 3 “The Glob Girls” Twenty Minute feature on the women who inspired PV Glob’s classic book about bog bodies, which then inspired Seamus Heaney’s poetry.

2005 "Strange Powers" selected for 16th International Film and Archaeology Festival, Rovereto, Italy.

2004 Presenter, Cheltenham Science Festival, poetry and archaeology

2004 Panellist, BBC Radio 4, Start the Week (on retro tech and Silicon Valley)

2004 BBC Digital Storyteller (see Fragments at www.bbc.co.uk/digitalstorytelling).

2003 Presenter, Cheltenham Science Festival (Silicon Valley)

Journalism includes the London Sunday Times Magazine, London Sunday Times Travel, the Guardian, New Scientist, Slow Food, Readymade, the V and A Magazine, She, World.

Contributing editor to Archaeology magazine, 1999 - 2003: features include ‘Forgiveness in the Sweat Lodge’, December 1999. ‘The Defence of Britain Project’, May 2000, ‘1900 House’ - television review, May 2000;‘Jacquetta Hawkes’ profile, Jan. 2001; on archaeology and computers in Silicon Valley, May 2001; Uffington White Horse, September 2001; In Praise of Small Museums, November 2001.

For British Archaeology, feature on Jacquetta Hawkes and art (2004) and responses to White Horse Hill and Stonehenge (2005)

Media interviews include

Tech Nation, KQED, San Francisco; San Jose Mercury News; Wall Street Journal; the Economist; the Oxford Mail; Todd Mundt Show (NPR); Discovery Channel Canada; BBC World Service; BBC Radio Oxford; Bradford Telegraph and Argus; Bradford Community Radio; BBC Radio 4 Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 3 features (as above).

Theatre and performance includes

2005 Workshops for actors on storytelling, International Theatre Workshop Festival, London.

2004 Co-writer, with Bradford Theatre Fellow Iain Bloomfield, "Down a Rainbow" (based on Hawkes and Priestley) University of Bradford.

1997 Publicity Assistant, Dublin Fringe Theatre Festival.