Staff with academic status are adjunct members of staff, who, through their workplace or research interests, support the academic programmes of the department. Our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes would not be possible without our range of dedicated Industry Partners and academic supporters, all of whom contribute enormously to the capacity and quality of the Department.
Staff with Academic Status | Research Interests |
| James Bateman Research Associate BA (Hons) Flinders University | Archaeological photography, history of archaeological photography, Port Adelaide maritime heritage research |
Dr Peter Bell | Historical archaeology, architecture, cultural heritage management, mining, conservation |
Jillian Comber | Indigenous archaeology, lithic technology, dissonant theory in the context of dispossession, interactions between Aboriginal people and Chinese sojourners, cultural heritage management |
Dr Neale Draper | Cultural heritage management, Indigenous archaeology and anthropology, native title and Aboriginal studies |
| Ursula Frederick Research Associate BA (Hons) ANU MA ANU | Rock art, modern material culture, contact art, mark-making activities |
Gordon Grimwade | Historical archaeology, archaeology of the Chinese, cultural heritage management, industrial archaeology |
Daryl Guse | Cultural heritage management, Australian archaeology |
| Dr Jeremy Haberfield-Short | Angkor, human environmental interactions, Northeast Thailand, palaeo-climates |
| Dr Jun Kimura Adjunct Lecturer BA, Tokai (Japan) MMA Flinders PhD Flinders | Asian Maritime Archaeology, Ship structure and construction, Japanese Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Asian and Pacific regions. |
Giles Hamm | Cultural heritage management, archaeology of arid Australia, Indigenous archaeology, landscape archaeology, Aboriginal material culture studies |
Professor Maciej Henneberg | Human evolution, anatomical variation, osteology, palaeodemography, comparative anatomy, palaeopathology |
| Gary Jackson Research Associate BA (Hons) Adelaide | Cultural heritage management, repatriation, Indigenous archaeology and anthropology |
| Emily Jateff BA Anthropology/Archaeology, University of West Florida MMA Maritime Archaeology, Flinders University Grad. Dip. Gastronomy, University of Adelaide South Australian Maritime Museum Port AdelaideSA | Maritime archaeology, screen, media and archaeology, underwater cultural heritage at risk, maritime food and culture, disaster preparedness and response |
| Amer Khan Research Associate BA, BSc Yale MMA Flinders Department of Environment and Heritage, Adelaide | Ship construction practices in South Australia, ship abandonment, underwater conservation and heritage management |
| Benjamin Keys Research Fellow BArch Flinders University BArch (Hons) Flinders University | |
| Robin Koch Associate Lecturer B.Ed ACAE B.Tech Adelaide University | Surveying, GIS, mapping |
| Dr Susan Lampard Research Associate BA (Hons) Flinders PhD Flinders AECOM, Gordon, NSW | Historical archaeology, faunal assemblages |
| Ms Lyn Leader-Elliott Research Fellow | Cultural heritage management, heritage tourism, World Heritage, museum studies, heritage interpretation, intangible heritage |
| Justin McCarthy Research Associate BA USyd Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd | Cultural heritage management, historical archaeology, archaeology of the overseas Chinese, urban archaeology, industrial archaeology |
Dr Ruth Megaw | US and Australian cultural history, early Celtic art, contemporary Aboriginal art |
| Emeritus Professor Vincent Megaw Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Archaeology AM, MA, DLitt Edinburgh, FAHA, FSA, FSA Scot, MIFA, FRAI | Archaeology and anthropology of art, archaeology of musical instruments, Australasian prehistory and protohistory, early Celtic art, contemporary Aboriginal art, museology
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Ian Moffat | Archaeological geophysics, sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, geoarchaeology, site formation processes, geochronology, isotope geochemistry |
Michael Nash | Underwater archaeology, shipwreck survivors camps; maritime industries - sealing, whaling and shipbuilding, convict studies, cultural resource managment and interpretation |
Professor George Nicholas | Indigenous archaeology, cultural and intellectual property rights, decolonisation of theory and practice |
David Nutley | Cultural heritage management, museums, underwater cultural heritage |
Dr Susan Piddock | The archaeology of institutions, houses, disease and health, documentary and historical archaeology, finds analysis and burial practices |
| Mark Polzer Research Associate BS Texas A&M University MA Texas A&M University | Research Interests: Seafaring and maritime trade in the ancient world; Phoenician and Greek colonization; cultural contacts; ship construction and the development and transference of maritime technology; iconography |
Jason Raupp | Maritime archaeology, historical archaeology, contact rock art |
Dr Nathan Richards | Maritime archaeology, archaeological theory and method, history of technology, cultural resources management |
Vicki Richards | Shipwreck conservation, materials conservatio |
Dr Malcolm Ridges | Indigenous heritage values, land use change mapping, GIS modelling, predictive modelling |
Didac Roman | Stone artefacts, lithic technology, Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic |
| Dr Ines Domingo Sanz Research Fellow BA Universitat de València PhD Universitat de València | Rock art, archaeology, ethnoarchaeology |
| Jason Shute Associate Lecturer GRSM, ARCH (Hons) | Historical South Australia and the development of the copper industry and key South Australians |
Cheryl Simpson | Protecting cultural property, sumptuary law, dress code regulation, art theft, human rights, social justice |
| Dr Diana Smith Research Associate BA (Hons) Flinders PhD Flinders Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Bendigo | Social memory, farm machinery, historical archaeology, cultural heritage management |
Dr Pam Smith | Historical archaeology (European and Indigenous), cultural heritage management, archaeobotany; interpretations of cultural landscapes |
Associate Professor Mark Staniforth | Historical archaeology; maritime archaeology; underwater cultural heritage issues; museum studies |
| Ms Katrina Stankowski Research Associate BA (Hons) Flinders MA Flinders Heritage Branch, Department of Planning, Sydney, NSW | Historical archaeology, cultural heritage management, oral histories |
Dr Lynley Wallis | Indigenous archaeology, archaeological science, cultural heritage management, phytolith studies |
Dr Keryn Walshe | Indigenous Australian archaeology, faunal analysis, taphonomy, museum studies, cultural heritage management |

