Professor Mark Staniforth has broad experience in historical archaeology, maritime archaeology, museums and heritage studies in a career that spans nearly thirty years.
Mark was the Convenor of the Maritime Archaeology Program (MAP) in the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University for 14 years (1997-2010) where he taught topics in undergraduate and postgraduate maritime archaeology and underwater cultural heritage management.
He was the author of Material Culture and Consumer Society published by Plenum Press of New York in 2003, he was the editor (with Mike Nash in 2006) of Maritime Archaeology: Australian Approaches (Plenum Press. New York) and (with Mike Hyde in 2001) of Maritime Archaeology in Australia: A Reader (Southern Archaeology. Blackwood, SA). Mark has published more than 70 publications since 1982.
Experience
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2011–presentAdjunct Senior Research Fellow, Monash University
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2011–presentAdjunct Professor, La Trobe University
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1997–2010Associate Professor, Flinders University
Education
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1999Flinders University, PhD
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1993Sydney University, MA (History)
Grants and Contracts
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2011ARC Linkage grant - Australian Historic Shipwrecks Project
- Role:
- Chief Investigator
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council (ARC)
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2011Inaugural AAHM Asia-Pacific Conference on Underwater Cultural Heritage
- Role:
- Chair - Scientific Committee
- Funding Source:
- Wenner Gren Foundation
Research Areas
- Maritime Archaeology (210110)
- Historical Archaeology (Incl. Industrial Archaeology) (210108)
Honours
FSA
- Melbourne, Australia
- Article Feed
- mark.staniforth@monash.edu
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