
Christina completed her PhD at Newnham College, Cambridge, on the sealing and administrative practices at the end of the 3rd millennium BC in Mesopotamia. During her PhD, she spent two years in the Netherlands, and moved to Helsinki to work on interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 2nd and 1st millennium BC. Upon finishing her PhD, she took a postdoctoral appointment at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, working for the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and directing the creation of a database for the documentation of seals and sealing practices in the Ancient Near East.
After her first maternity leave, she moved to Heidelberg to work in the CRC 933 Material Text Cultures on the materiality of writing and the written in the Ancient Near East, focusing on the 3rd millennium BC. She then taught at the University of Newcastle and gave birth to her second child, before moving back to Cambridge to lead a project on the materiality of votive inscriptions and religious practices of private individuals in the Ancient Near East throughout three millennia.
She is based at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.