She has been a member of WAC since the early 1990s and was the junior representative for Southeastern Asia and the Pacific from 1994-2003. She was Editor of WAC News, the newsletter of the World Archaclairesmitheological Congress, from 1994-1998. Claire's main field experience is in Indigenous archaeology. She has conducted fieldwork in the Barunga-Wugularr region of southern Arnhem Land, Australia, since 1990, and returns to do fieldwork there every year. Claire's books include Indigenous Cultures in an Interconnected World (co-edited with Graeme K. Ward, Allen and Unwin 2000), Country, Kin and Culture. Survival of an Australian Aboriginal Community (Wakefield Press 2004), Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonising Archaeological Theory and Method (co-edited with H. Martin Wobst, Routlege, 2005) and The Archaeologist's Field Handbook (with Heather Burke, Allen and Unwin, 2004).