Flinders University
Dr Alice Gorman
Dr
Alice
Gorman
Flinders University
http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/alice.gorman
| Position/s: | Lecturer Department of Archaeology |
| Adunct Research Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Australian National University Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law | |
| Faculy Member, International Space University Southern Hemisphere Summer Space Program Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law | |
| Phone: | - |
| Email: | alice.gorman@flinders.edu.au |
| Location: | - (-) |
| Postal address: | GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia |
Biography
Dr Alice Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the emerging field of space archaeology. Her research on space exploration has been featured in National Geographic, the Monocle, and Archaeology magazine. She is a faculty member of the International Space University's Southern Hemisphere Space Program in Adelaide.
She has worked extensively in Indigenous heritage management, providing advice for mining industry, urban development, government departments, local councils and Native Title groups in NSW, WA, SA and Queensland. She is also a specialist in stone tool analysis, and the Aboriginal use of bottle glass after European settlement.
Alice is a Media Liaison Officer for the Australian Archaeological Association, book review editor of the journal Australian Archaeology, and a Councillor of the Anthropological Society of South Australia. She tweets as @drspacejunk.
Qualifications
PhD, University of New England (2001)
B.A.(Hons), University of Melbourne (1986)
Honours, awards and grants
2010: Voted 1st at Flinders University in the UniJobs Lecturer of the Year poll.
2007: Voted 29th in the annual Australia-wide Lecturer of the Year poll.
2001: Finalist, Queensland Premier's Awards, Bridges to Reconciliation category.
Key responsibilities
Alice teaches in the Graduate Programmes in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management, co-ordinating Work Integrated Learning topics with industry partners. In 2012 she is the Research and Higher Degree Co-ordinator of the Department of Archaeology.
Teaching
Research and supervision
Research interests
My research involves the archaeology and cultural heritage management of space exploration, focusing on orbital debris, terrestrial launch sites, and tracking stations.
Publications
Book chapters
Burke, H.D., Gorman, A., Mayes, ken and Renshaw, D. (2011). The Heritage Uncertainty Principle: Excavating Air Raid Shelters from the Second World War. In Katsuyuki Okamura and Akira Matsuda, ed. New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology. New York, USA: Springer, pp. 139-154.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). Beyond the space race: the material culture of space in a new global context. In Cornelius Holtorf and Angela Piccini, ed. Contemporary Archaeologies: Excavating Now. Frankfort: Peter Lang, pp. 161-180.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). The archaeology of space exploration. In David Bell and Martin Parker, ed. Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 132-145.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). Heritage of earth orbit?: orbital debris - its mitigation and cultural heritage. In Ann Garrison Darrin and Beth Laura O'Leary, ed. Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology and Heritage. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 381-397. [online]. Available from: http://books.google.com/books?id=dTwIDun4MroC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). Cultural landscape of space. In Ann Garrison Darrin and Beth Laura O'Leary, ed. Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology and Heritage. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 335-346. [online]. Available from: http://books.google.com/books?id=dTwIDun4MroC&pg=PA37&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=5#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Gorman, A.C. (2008). The primitive body and colonial administration: Henry Ling Roth's approach to body modification. In Russell McDougall and Iain Davidson, ed. The Roth Family, Anthropology and Colonial Administration. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, pp. 93-103.
Gorman, A.C. and O'Leary, B.L. (2007). An ideological vacuum: the Cold War in outer space. In John Schofield and Wayne Cocroft, ed. A fearsome heritage. Diverse legacies of the Cold War. Walnut Creek California: Left Coast Press, pp. 73-92.
Refereed journal articles
Wallis, L., Gorman, A. and Burke, H.D. (2013). The opportunities and challenges of graduate level teaching. Australian Archaeology, 76.
Gorman, A.C. (2011). The sky is falling: how Skylab became an Australian icon. Journal of Australian Studies, 35(4), pp.529-546. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2011.618507.
Wallis, L.A. and Gorman, A.C. (2010). A time for change? Indigenous heritage values and management practice in the Coorong and Lower Murray Lakes region, South Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, pp.57-73. [online]. Available from: http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=337499990013797;res=IELHSS.
Book chapters
Burke, H.D., Gorman, A., Mayes, ken and Renshaw, D. (2011). The Heritage Uncertainty Principle: Excavating Air Raid Shelters from the Second World War. In Katsuyuki Okamura and Akira Matsuda, ed. New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology. New York, USA: Springer, pp. 139-154.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). The archaeology of space exploration. In David Bell and Martin Parker, ed. Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 132-145.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). Heritage of earth orbit?: orbital debris - its mitigation and cultural heritage. In Ann Garrison Darrin and Beth Laura O'Leary, ed. Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology and Heritage. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 381-397. [online]. Available from: http://books.google.com/books?id=dTwIDun4MroC&printsec=frontcover&cd=1&source=gbs_ViewAPI#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). Cultural landscape of space. In Ann Garrison Darrin and Beth Laura O'Leary, ed. Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology and Heritage. Boca Raton: CRC Press, pp. 335-346. [online]. Available from: http://books.google.com/books?id=dTwIDun4MroC&pg=PA37&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=5#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). Beyond the space race: the material culture of space in a new global context. In Cornelius Holtorf and Angela Piccini, ed. Contemporary Archaeologies: Excavating Now. Frankfort: Peter Lang, pp. 161-180.
Gorman, A.C. (2008). The primitive body and colonial administration: Henry Ling Roth's approach to body modification. In Russell McDougall and Iain Davidson, ed. The Roth Family, Anthropology and Colonial Administration. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press, pp. 93-103.
Gorman, A.C. and O'Leary, B.L. (2007). An ideological vacuum: the Cold War in outer space. In John Schofield and Wayne Cocroft, ed. A fearsome heritage. Diverse legacies of the Cold War. Walnut Creek California: Left Coast Press, pp. 73-92.
Refereed journal articles
Wallis, L., Gorman, A. and Burke, H.D. (2013). The opportunities and challenges of graduate level teaching. Australian Archaeology, 76.
Gorman, A.C. (2011). The sky is falling: how Skylab became an Australian icon. Journal of Australian Studies, 35(4), pp.529-546. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2011.618507.
Wallis, L.A. and Gorman, A.C. (2010). A time for change? Indigenous heritage values and management practice in the Coorong and Lower Murray Lakes region, South Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1, pp.57-73. [online]. Available from: http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=337499990013797;res=IELHSS.
Gorman, A.C. (2009). The gravity of archaeology. Archaeologies, 5(2), pp.344-359. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11759-009-9104-1.
Gorman, A.C. (2007). La terre et l'espace: rockets, prisons, protests and heritage in Australia and French Guiana. Archaeologies, 3(2), pp.153-168. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11759-007-9017-9.
Gorman, A.C. (2005). The cultural landscape of interplanetary space. Journal of Social Archaeology, 5(1), pp.85-107. [online]. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469605305050148.
Refereed conference papers
Gorman, A.C. (2005). The Archaeology of Orbital Space. In ?, ed. Proceedings of the 5th Australian Space Science Conference 2005. Australian Space Science Conference 2005. pp. 338-357.
Professional and community engagement
Memberships:
Australian Archaeological Association (Media Liaison Officer)
World Archaeological Congres
Space Industry Association of Australia
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Anthropology Society of South Australia
Alice publishes the influential blog Space Age Archaeology:
http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
Expertise for media contact
- Space archaeology
- Australian space history
- Orbital debris
- Spacecraft re-entry
Subject/s
- Aboriginal issues
- Archaeology
- Heritage
- Space
- Technology
