Staff
Archaeology | Anthropology | Bioanthropology | Development Studies | Heritage and Museum Studies
Head of School
Associate Professor Kylie Message
Senior School Administrator
Ms Joyce-Noronha Barrett
School Administrator (Graduate Research)
Christopher O'Neill
School Administrator (Postgraduate Coursework)
Ms Rachel Wang
School Administrator (Undergraduate)
Ms Tanya Greig
School Administrator (HR and Finance Support)
Ms Penny O'Brien
School Administrator (Statistical Data and Finance Support)
Mr Mark Dullow
Laboratory Technician
Mr David McGregor
Academic Staff: Archaeology
Professor Peter Bellwood
Research Interests: Prehistory of Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (world-wide); interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology.
Dr Catherine J. Frieman
Research Interests: Innovation in prehistoric societies; Flint, ground-stone and other lithic technologies; Trade and communication in 4th-2nd millennia BC Europe; European Neolithic and Bronze Age society; Adoption of metal; Prehistoric metallurgy; Flint daggers; Ornaments and identity;Material culture studies; Archaeological theory
Dr Alex Mackay
Research Interests: African archaeology, MIddle Stone Age, Human cultural evolution.
Dr Sally K. May
Research Interests: Indigenous archaeology, rock art studies, archaeology of art, museology, ethnography and ethnoarchaeology, cross-cultural encounters, anthropology of collecting.
Dr Dougald O'Reilly
Research Interests: The prehistory of Southeast Asia, rise of complex society, Archaeological theory, Heritage preservation.
Dr Marc Oxenham
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, Forensic Anthropology, prehistory and history of human health and behaviour, dietary reconstruction, identification of disease in the skeletal record, prehistory of Southeast Asia.
Associate Professor Philip Piper
Research Interests: Zooarchaeology and Palaeoecology, Transition from hunting to animal management in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Subsistence Strategies, Prehistoric island colonization and adaptation, the application of zooarchaeology and palaeoecology to issues of contemporary bioloigcal conservation.
Professor Matthew Spriggs
Head of Discipline - Archaeology
Research Interests: Pacific and Southeast Asian archaeology, archaeology and linguistics, subsistence systems and agricultural origins, human impact on the environment, politics and archaeology, Cornish studies (particularly language history).
Academic Staff: Anthropology
Dr Hannah Bulloch
Research Interests: Anthropology of development, especially meta-narratives of development; intimate relationships, particularly as they relate to the roles and expectations on young women; changing forms of sociality, economy and personhood; cultural economies of food; Visayan people of the Philippines.
Dr Ashley Carruthers
Research Interests: Migration, diasporas, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, transnational media, overseas Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian communities.
Dr Simone Dennis
Research Interests: My research interests coalesce around theories of embodiment, migration, memory and the senses, and contemporary relations between bodies, power and space, in ethnographic work:
- exploring the politics of nationhood in contemporary Australia and the ways in which they have played out around events like the Tampa Crisis on Christmas Island;
- among Persian women migrants and their experiences of migration and place;
- in Australian research laboratories in which rodents feature as animal models for human disease research;
- in research among smokers looking at how smoking occasions social and corporeal relationships with others in the context of new legislative arrangements that have ushered in fundamental changes to smoking practice and agency.
Dr Jennifer Deger
Research Interests: Visual Cultures, Digital Cultures, Studies Of Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Society, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Studies, Social And Cultural Anthropology, Social Change, Screen and media culture, Aesthetics, Performance and Installation Art
Dr Natasha Fijn
Research Interests: Visual anthropology, visual culture research, observational filmmaking, natural history filmmaking, human-animal studies, animal domestication, etho-ethnology or ethno-ethology, Mongolia, herders and herd animals, Yolngu in Arnhem Land, ecological humanities.
Dr Chris Gregory
Research Interests: The political economy and culture of rice-growing in central India as expressed in women's oral epics; kinship and marriage in central India; theories of gift exchange; commodities and money in comparative and historical context.
Dr Patrick Guinness
Head of Discipline - Anthropology
Research Interests: Participatory development, applied anthropology, urban anthropology, Southeast Asian societies, especially Indonesia and Malaysia, East African societies, religious change, especially in Islam and Christianity, globalisation.
Dr Christine Helliwell
Research Interests: Social and cultural theory, especially the theorisation of 'society' and 'culture'; cross-cultural constitution of gender/sex; constitution of subjectivity or 'personhood' and how this relates to different forms of sociality, identity and government; Dayak peoples of Borneo.
Dr Melinda Hinkson
Research Interests: Aboriginal Australia; history of anthropology; media anthropology; visual anthropology and visual culture; cultural transformation; culture and personhood.
Dr Sarah Holcombe
Research Interests: Indigenous Australia, Indigenous rights, human rights, political anthropology, anthropology of development, research ethics and collaborative methods.
Dr Anna Kenny
Research Interests: Indigenous Australia, the German Humanistic tradition of Anthropology, relationships to land.
Dr Patrick Kilby
Research Interests: Non-Governmental Organisations; empowerment and marginalisation; gender; managing development activities; south Asia, particularly India.
Professor Francesca Merlan
Research Interests: Landedness and its transformation; culture and personhood; Indigeneity; comparative political culture (liberalism and illiberalism); language and culture; social theory and development.
Dr Sverre Molland
Research Interests: Development, Gender, Mobility, Human Trafficking, Agency and Practice, Governmentality, Biolegitimacy, Laos, Thailand, Mekong region.
Dr. Åse Ottosson
Research Interests: Aboriginal Australia; anthropology of gender, sexuality and masculinity; intercultural theory; music anthropology; expressive cultural forms; anthropology of place and space; politics of ethnicity and national identity.
Professor Nicolas Peterson
Research Interests: Social organisation, economic anthropology, ritual and symbolism, land and sea tenure, fourth world people and the state, social change and applied anthropology, anthropology of photography, ethnographic film, history of Australian Anthropology.
Academic Staff: Bioanthropology
Dr Debbie Argue
Research Interests: Homo floresiensis; human evolution in Africa, Asia and Europe; palaeoanthropology.
Dr Alison Behie
Research Interests: Primate behaviour and nutritional ecology; the impact of nutrition on stress hormones and disease in non-human primates; effects of habitat disturbance, especially environmental disasters, on primate health and population dynamics; similarities between human and non-human primate responses to environmental disasters
Professor Colin Groves
Research Interests: Nonhuman primates, human evolution, mammalian taxonomy and biogeography, animal domestication.
Dr Marc Oxenham
Head of Discipline - Bioanthropology
Research Interests: Bioarchaeology, palaeopathology, Forensic Anthropology, prehistory and history of human health and behaviour, dietary reconstruction, identification of disease in the skeletal record, prehistory of Southeast Asia.
Development Studies
Dr Hannah Bulloch
Research Interests: Anthropology of development, especially meta-narratives of development; intimate relationships, particularly as they relate to the roles and expectations on young women; changing forms of sociality, economy and personhood; cultural economies of food; Visayan people of the Philippines.
Dr Patrick Kilby
Research Interests: Non-Governmental Organisations; empowerment and marginalisation; gender; managing development activities; south Asia, particularly India.
Dr Patrick Guinness
Research Interests: Participatory development, applied anthropology, urban anthropology, Southeast Asian societies, especially Indonesia and Malaysia, East African societies, religious change, especially in Islam and Christianity, globalisation.
Professor Francesca Merlan
Research Interests: Landedness and its transformation; culture and personhood; Indigeneity; comparative political culture (liberalism and illiberalism); language and culture; social theory and development.
Dr Sverre Molland
Head of Discipline – Development Studies
Research Interests: Development, Gender, Mobility, Human Trafficking, Agency and Practice, Governmentality, Biolegitimacy, Laos, Thailand, Mekong region.
Heritage and Museum Studies
Associate Professor Kylie Message
Research Interests: Social, cultural and political theory; Museums and social development; Globalisation, cultural policy and changing concepts of citizenship in multicultural postcolonial societies (Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe).
Professor Laurajane Smith
Head of Discipline – Heritage and Museum Studies
Research Interests: Refining Heritage Studies as a field of research, heritage and cultural policy, intangible heritage, working class heritage, heritage of slavery, ethnography of visits to heritage sites and museums, heritage tourism, gender and heritage, indigenous understandings of heritage.
Louise Hamby
Research Interests: Historic and contemporary material culture from Arnhem Land.
