Academic Staff Qualifications

Research Interests

Associate Professor Heather Burke
Graduate Programme Coordinator
BA (Hons), PhD University of New England

European constructions of cultural landscapes; standing structures, style and social identity; ideology and capitalism; mining; the frontier and contact; working class archaeology; heritage interpretation and the uses of archaeology; archaeology of the Chinese in Australia; World War II

Dr Alice Gorman
On leave 2012-2014
BA Melbourne, PhD University of New England		Archaeology of space exploration; terrestrial launch sites; cultural heritage management of orbital debris; lithic analysis; flaked bottle glass; body modification; history of anthropology

Dr Jennifer F. McKinnon
Post Graduate Coordinator
Honours Cooordinator
BA University of Florida, MS Florida State University, PhD Florida State University

Maritime archaeology; historical archaeology; cultural heritage management; Spanish colonization and mission systems; ship construction; lifesaving stations and shipwreck shelter hut; World War II
Dr Mick Morrison
BA (Hons) James Cook University, PhD Flinders
Archaeology of Australian gatherer-hunter peoples; coastal archaeology and shell midden analysis; archaeology of cross-cultural engagement; Christian missions and Aboriginal people; Indigenous cultural heritage management; Indigenous land and sea management

Professor Donald Pate
BA, BS San Diego, Grad. Cert. Tertiary Ed. Flinders, MA, PhD Brown

Archaeological science; palaeodiet; palaeoecology; bio-archaeology; archaeology of Native North America; Australian Indigenous archaeology; modern material culture; anthropological archaeology; behavioral biology; human evolution

Dr Amy Roberts
Director of Studies
BA (Hons) Flinders University, Grad. Cert. App Anth. University of Western Australia, PhD Flinders University		Archaeology and anthropology of Indigenous Australia; Native Title; cultural heritage management; stone artefact analysis; stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis; the relationship between archaeology and anthropology; archaeology, anthropology and intellectual property; Indigenous traditional fishing; Murray and Mallee archaeology and anthropology; coastal archaeology and anthropology; mid north archaeology and anthropology; the life and works of Indigenous scholar Dr Doreen Karthinyeri and traditional healers in Indigenous Australia

Professor Claire Smith
Head of Department
BA (Hons), PhD University of New England

 		Australian Indigenous archaeology; archaeology of art; gender and material culture; the archaeology of contact; archaeological ethics

Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde
BA, University of Amsterdam
PhD, Texas A & M University

Maritime history, maritime trade and shipbuilding in the Mediterranean and northwest Europe, early seventeenth century East Indiamen, Greek and Roman anchors.