Justin Walsh

Justin Walsh is a leading scholar in the emerging field of space archaeology, studying the material culture of human activity in space and on Earth. He is co-director of the International Space Station Archaeological Project, which he founded in 2015, and helped lead SQuARE, the first archaeological fieldwork conducted aboard the ISS.
His research also spans Mediterranean archaeology, cultural heritage, and aerospace heritage. Since 1998, he has conducted fieldwork in the United States, Spain, Jordan, Kazakhstan, and Italy, and has collaborated on archaeological projects including Cástulo in southern Spain.
Walsh is an Ad Astra Fellow in Space Habitats and Space Anthropology at the University of Southern California and a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists. He was named to the Explorers Club 50 in 2024 and has received numerous academic awards and fellowships, including a Fulbright Grant and the Rome Prize.