Associate Professor Wendy Van Duivenvoorde

Associate Professor in Marine Archaeology

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

+61 8 82015195

wendy.vanduivenvoorde@flinders.edu.au

Humanities (229)

GPO Box 2100, Adelaide 5001, South Australia

Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde is an associate professor in maritime archaeology at Flinders University. Her current research is focused primarily on maritime trade and shipbuilding in the ancient Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Dr van Duivenvoorde is an expert in late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Dutch shipbuilding and her studies primarily focus on ships of exploration and Indiamen, and include the archaeological remains of Western Australia's Dutch East Indiamen shipwrecks. An additional research interest comprises ancient ship's fastenings and anchors. Dr van Duivenvoorde has become a specialist in the study of ship's fastenings dating to the ancient Greek and Roman periods. She has conducted research on the metal fasteners and anchors excavated from ancient Mediterranean merchantmen such as the Tektaş Burnu (±440–425 B.C.) and Kyrenia (3rd century B.C.) shipwrecks.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology (Nautical Archaeology), Texas A&M University (2008)
Masters of Arts, Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Amsterdam (2000)
Propedeuse, Art History, University of Amsterdam (1993)

Honours, awards and grants

Awards in the last 10 years:

Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation in Teaching Award, 2022 (team award);
Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Team Award for Innovation in Teaching (for Microcredential MICR-PSDC Professional Scientific Diver), 2022 (team award);
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision, 2020;
Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Excellence in Research Supervision Award 2020;
John Lyman Book Award, Naval and Maritime Science and Technology, North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH), 2015 (for Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding);
Flinders University Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellow 2015;
Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Researchers 2013.

Grants (a selection from the last 10 years):

ARC Linkage, Mobilising Dutch East India Company collections for new global stories, Chief Investigator (LP210300960), 2023-2027;
Australia-France Social Science Collaborative Research Program, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Chief Investigator, 2022-2024;
ARC Linkage, Reuniting cargoes: Underwater Cultural Heritage of the Maritime Silk Route, Chief Investigator (LP210200165), 2022-2025;
ARC Discovery, Before Cook: Contact, Negotiation and the Archaeology of the Tiwi Islands, Chief Investigator, 2020-2023;
George and Ann Bass Endowment for Nautical Archaeology Publications, The Kyrenia Ship Publication: The Hull, Rigging, and Equipment, https://nauticalarch.org/publication-funding/, 2020;
Cultural Foundation, Netherlands Embassy, 2019; (Activity no. GCE-2017-03), 2018; (Activity no. GCE-2017-03), 2017; (Activity no. GCE-2017-05), 2017;
Honor Frost Foundation Maritime Archaeology Research Grant, 2019, 2017;
Honor Frost Foundation Supplemental Research (w/ J. Benjamin), 2017, 2016;
Commonwealth Asia Post-Graduate Program, Vietnam Postgraduate Maritime Archaeology Programme, 2017;
Cultural Foundation, Netherlands Embassy, Dirk Hartog Historical Research Project (Activity no. GCE-2016-07), 2016;
ARC Linkage, Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties, Chief Investigator (LP130100137), 2013-2019.

Key responsibilities

Maritime Archaeology Program Coordinator (2013-2020)

Topic coordinator

ARCH8154 Underwater Cultural Heritage: Legislation, Management and Interpretation

ARCH8157 Methods in Underwater Archaeology

ARCH2204 Australian Maritime Archaeology

ARCH3309 Maritime Archaeological Field School

ARCH8152 Maritime Archaeological Field School

ARCH8158 Ships: Research, Recording and Reconstruction

ARCH8150 Maritime Archaeology in Australia

ARCH8155 The Archaeology of Seafaring

ARCH8159 Maritime Archaeology Field Practicum

ARCH2211 Ships and seafaring in the Indian Ocean

ARCH8160 Ships and seafaring in the Indian Ocean

ARCH8156 Maritime Archaeology Advanced Field Practicum

ARCH8309A Advanced Research Projects

ARCH2216 Seafaring in the Ancient World

Topic lecturer

ARCH1002 World Archaeology

ARCH1001 Introduction to Archaeology

ARCH1007 Ancient Egypt to the Aztecs: Foundations of Urban Life

Supervisory interests

Australian maritime archaeology

East Asian maritime archaeology

Experimental archaeology

Indian Ocean shipbuilding and seafaring

Maritime archaeology

Maritime cultural heritage

Material studies in maritime archaeology

Museum studies in maritime archaeology

Nautical archaeology

North-western European shipbuilding and seafaring

Traditional boatbuilding

Higher degree by research supervision

Current

Principal supervisor: Maritime Archaeology (3)

Completion

Principal supervisor: Maritime Archaeology (10)

Associate supervisor: Maritime Archaeology (7)

Higher degree by research student achievements

Jason Raupp

2015 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - APR 2016

Maddy Fowler

2015 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - APR 2016

Jason Raupp

2017 SHA Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award - JAN 2017

Omaima Eldeeb

2020 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAR 2021

Enrique Aragon Nunez

2020 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAR 2021

John McCarthy

2020 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAR 2021

Mick de Ruyter

2021 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAY 2022

Peta Straiton

2022 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAR 2023

Professional engagement

Professional

Adjunct Lecturer, Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia;
Affiliated Scholar, Member, Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), Texas A&M University;
Editorial Advisory Board, BAR Series: Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology (https://www.barpublishing.com/sub-series/cultural-studies-in-maritime-and-underwater-archaeology/);
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology;
Editorial Board Member, Australasian Journal of Maritime Archaeology;
Editorial Committee Member, Special Publications of the Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology;
Chair UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology (2015-2018);
Chair, Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology Conference 2017, Adelaide;
Board Member, Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA, 2010-2017);
Organising Committee Member, Indian Ocean World Centre 2012 Conference, Perth;
Council Member, Life Member, Scholarship Committee Member, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA).

Media (a selection: see full list on https://flinders.academia.edu/WendyVanDuivenvoorde)

Georgie Burgess, Shipwreck of Tasmanian-built schooner Barbara gives archaeologists new insights into colonial boatbuilding (5 April 2020): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-05/shipwreck-at-rye-confirmed-as-tasmanian-ship-barbara/12103294
Anne-Christine Scherer, Madagaskar: Niederländische Seefahrer nutzten Felspostsystem, EPOC (25 May 2012): http://www.epoc.de/alias/madagaskar/niederlaendische-seefahrer-nutzten-felspostsystem/1152525
Theo Toebosch, Poste restante onder stenen en rotsen: Mosgroei, tropische regenbuien, wind en zeewater hebben de poststenen sterk aangetast, NRC Handelsblad (14 May 2012): Wetenschap NH_NL01_016. See: http://archief.nrc.nl/index.php/2012/Mei/14/Wetenschap/nhnl01016/Poste+restante+onder+stenen+en+rotsen/check=Y
Earliest Dutch post restante in the Indian Ocean? See video: http://player.vimeo.com/video/42171028 (from Flinders Indaily, 15 May 2012, page 3).
SBS Radio Netherlands High Light: Een berichtje uit 1601 via de "rotspost"/A message from 1601 via rock mail (part 1 of 2). See: http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/dutch/highlight/page/id/215159/t/You-have-a-message--from-1600/