Associate Professor Wendy Van Duivenvoorde

Associate Professor in Marine Archaeology

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

place 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

Expert for media contact
Research
Ancient Mediterranean Seafaring
Australian Maritime Archaeology
Australian Shipbuilding
Batavia Shipwreck
Dendro-archaeology
Dutch East India Company
Historic Shipwrecks
Kyrenia Shipwreck
Maritime Archaeology
Post-medieval seafaring
Underwater Cultural Heritage
Vergulde Draeck Shipwreck
Wooden shipbuilding
Zeewijk Shipwreck
Zuytdorp Shipwreck
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Media expertise
  • Research
Interests
  • Ancient Mediterranean Seafaring
  • Australian Maritime Archaeology
  • Australian Shipbuilding
  • Batavia Shipwreck
  • Dendro-archaeology
  • Dutch East India Company
  • Historic Shipwrecks
  • Kyrenia Shipwreck
  • Maritime Archaeology
  • Post-medieval seafaring
  • Underwater Cultural Heritage
  • Vergulde Draeck Shipwreck
  • Wooden shipbuilding
  • Zeewijk Shipwreck
  • Zuytdorp Shipwreck
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