Résumé

Education

• • PhD in Archaeology, University of Cambridge (2022)

  • MPhil in Archaeological Research (First Class), University of Cambridge (2017)

  • BA in Anthropology, Stony Brook University (2016)

Grants and Awards

• • Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

  • Life on a Sustainable Planet Fellowship, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

  • Graham Fund: "Clarifying the deep chronology of Homo sapiens at the gates of Oceania: Dispersal to the Raja Ampat archipelago, west New Guinea"

  • National Geographic Society Meridian Project Grant: "The deep human histories and possible futures of the Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua"

  • National Geographic Society Early Career Grant: "Exploring Prehistoric Technology at the Tràng An Landscape Complex, Nình Binh Province, Vietnam"

  • Xuan Truong Studentship for MPhil and PhD studies, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge

  • Evans Fellowship, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge

  • Provost Out-of-State Scholarship, Stony Brook University 

Work Experience

• • Museum Educator with Department of Education, Outreach, and Visitor Experience, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. (December 2022-March 2023)

  • Research Consultant with Grant Programs, National Geographic Society, Washington D.C. (October 2017 - January 2018)

  • Educational Consultant with Department of Education and Outreach, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C. (May 2016 - September 2016)

Select Publications

• • 2025

    • Stimpson, C.M., Wilshaw, A., Utting, B., Nguyen, T.M.H., Nguyen, T.H., Vu, D.L., Vimala, T., McColl, H., Breslin, E.M., Jones, E.R., MacLeod, R., Holmes, R., O’Donnell, S., Kahlert, T., Pham, S.K., Bui, V.M., Willerslev, E., Rabett, R.J. “TBH1: 12 000-year-old human skeleton and projectile point shed light on demographics and mortality in Terminal Pleistocene Southeast Asia”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 292 no. 2053: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1819 (co-lead author)

    • Tanudirjo, D., Gaffney, D., Tsang, R.,  Macap, A.R., Russell, T., Utting, B., Dailom, M., Lapon, Y., Djami, E.N.I., Mas'ud, Z. "Rock Painting Traditions around Waigeo Island, Raja Ampat, West New Guinea". Journal of Pacific Archaeology vol. 15 no 1.

  • 2023

    • Utting, B. "Leave no stone unturned: Exploring behavioural variability in expedient stone tool assemblages. In "Asia's Heritage Trend", eds. Jongil Kim & Minjae Zoh. Routledge

  • 2022

    • Utting, B. Geochemical fingerprinting of Pleistocene stone tools from the Tràng An Landscape Complex, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam. PLoS ONE 17(6): e0269658

  • 2021

    • Stimpson, C.M., O'Donnell, S., Mai Huong, N.T.M., Holmes, R., Utting, B., Kahlert, T., Rabett, R.J. 2021. "Confirmed archaeological evidence of water deer in Vietnam: relics of the Pleistocene or a shifting baseline?". Royal Society Open Science 

    • Kahlert, T., O'Donnell, S., Stimpson, C., Mai Huong, N.T.M., Hill, E., Utting, B., Rabett. R. 2021. "Mid-Holocene coastline reconstruction from geomorphological sea level indicators in the Trang An World Heritage Site, Northern Vietnam. 2021. Quaternary Science Reviews 263, pp. 1-20

  • 2019

    • Rabett, R., Coward, F., Holmes, R., Bachtsevanidou-Strantzali, I., Green, E., Hill, E., Kahlert, T., Kelly, C., McAllister, M., O'Donnell, S., Pyne-O'Donnell, S., Redmond, A., Stimpson, C., Nguyen, D.T., Tan, T.V., Bui, M.V., Ludgate, N., Macleod, R., Utting, B., Tan, N.C., Nguyen, T.H., Nguyen, T.M.H., Nguyen, N.T., Nguyen, Khanh, S.P., Truong, T.Q.T., Vu, D.L., Vu, T.L., Vu, L.T., Tran, T.K.Q., Verhoeven, M. 2019. Human Adaptation to Coastal Evolution: Late Quaternary Evidence from Southeast Asia (SUNDASIA) - A Report on the Second Year of the Project. Vietnam Archaeology 13, pp. 23-49.

    • Stimpson, C.M., Utting, B., O’Donnell, S., Huong, N.T.M., Kahlert, T., Manh, B.V., Khanh, P.S., & Rabett, R.J. “An 11 000-year-old giant muntjac subfossil from Northern Vietnam: implications for past and present populations.” Royal Society Open Science 6:161461

  • 2016

    • Pargeter, J., Shea, J.J, & Utting, B. Quartz backed tools as arrowheads and hand-cast spearheads: Hunting experiments and macro-fracture analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 73: 145-157 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.08.001

Relevant Skills

• Lithic analysis

• Archaeological chemistry

• Statistical analysis (Bayesian & frequentist)

• Data visualization

• R (tidyverse & brms)

• Python (pandas)

• GIS (GRASS & QGIS)