Adjunct Lecturer, Archaeology | Director, Land and Heritage Management, Flinders University
I am an Adjunct Lecturer in Archaeology from the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University. I am also the Director for Land and Heritage Management at PKKP Aboriginal Corporation.
My research is about government interventions and how they have affected concepts of identity in a remote Northern Territory Aboriginal community. To gain archaeological insight into this, I am recording how people acquire, use, and discard material culture and how that changes over time.
I have been working as an archaeologist with people from Jawoyn communities near Katherine since 2010 and have conducted annual fieldwork in the region since that time. I lived in Barunga during 2016 and 2017 while undertaking data collection for my PhD thesis.
The focus of my Honours research was contemporary graffiti of Jawoyn Country, which explored responses to the Howard Government's Northern Territory National Emergency Response (Intervention).
Outside of academia, I have worked as a heritage consultant in parts of South Australia, Queensland and Western Australia.
Experience
2012–present
Research assistant in archaeology, Flinders University
2016–present
Tutor, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University
2015–present
PhD Candidate, Department of Archaeology, Flinders University
2015–2016
Tutor, Yunggorendi First Nations Education Centre
Education
2013
Flinders University, Bachelor of Archaeology (Honours)
Publications
2014
'We've got better things to do than worry about Whitefella politics': Contemporary Indigenous graffiti and recent government interventions in Jawoyn Country, Australian Archaeology 78:75-83
2013
Graffiti archaeology, In C. Smith (ed) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
2013
John Mulvaney, In C. Smith (ed) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
2013
World Archaeological Congress and cultural heritage management, In C. Smith (ed) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
Grants and Contracts
2013
Sharing the Heritage of Prospect Hill: From Siloed Memories to Public Histories
Role:
Project leader
Funding Source:
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Professional Memberships
Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. (Associate Member)
World Archaeological Congress (Membership Secretary; Jnr Rep for Southeast Asia and the Pacific)
Australian Archaeological Association
Anthropological Society of South Australia
Research Areas
Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Archaeology (210101)
Archaeology Of Australia (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander) (210104)