Sally Kate May

After completing her PhD, May was employed as a lecturer in archaeology at Flinders University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council funded project "Picturing change: 21st Century perspectives on recent Australian rock art, especially that from the European contact period" which ran from 2008 to 2011 and was led by Professor Paul Taçon. She was also a Chief Investigator on the ARC-funded project "Wellington Range rock art in a global context" which ran 2016–2018. In 2009, she was appointed a lecturer at the Australian National University, and in 2017 she joined PERAHU as a senior research fellow. She currently directs the project "Pathways: people, landscape, and rock art" which runs from 2018 to 2024.

May obtained an honours from Flinders University in 2001 under the supervision of Professor Claire Smith and Professor Mark Staniforth. Her thesis was titled The Last Frontier? acquiring the American-Australian Scientific Expedition Ethnographic Collection 1948. She obtained a PhD in 2006 from the Australian National University, supervised by Professor Howard Morphy, Professor Jon Altman and Dr Luke Taylor. Her thesis, titled Karrikadjurren – Creating Community with an Art Centre in Indigenous Australia used archaeological and ethnographic methods to explore the ongoing significance of art-making in Aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land. She carried out fieldwork collaboratively with artists from the Injalak Arts centre in Gunbalanya.

Sally Kate May, usually cited as Sally K. May, (born in 1979) is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist. She is an Associate Professor of Archaeology and Museum Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She is a specialist in Indigenous Australian rock art and Australian ethnographic museum collections.