Staff

Head of School

Dr Patrick Guinness

School Administrator

Ms Sue Fraser

Assistant School Administrator

Ms Christine Dwyer

Graduate Administrator

Ms Liz Walters

Laboratory Technician

Mr David McGregor

Academic Staff: Archaeology

Mr Tony Barham

Research interests: Geoarchaeology, stratigraphy, site formation processes, past landscapes; geoarchives, environmental planning and Cultural Heritage Management; the practice of archaeology within Applied Science and planning frameworks; using archaeological site evidence to model palaeofloods, sea level rise, past and present regolith stability and tsunami risk.

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.

Mr Ian Farrington
Research interests: Central and south America, and landscape archaeology.

Dr Peter Hiscock
Research interests: Stoneworking technology, Australian prehistory, and archaeological method.

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.

Professor Matthew Spriggs
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 Ashley Carruthers
Research interests: Migration, diasporas, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, transnational media, overseas Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian communities.

Dr Simone Dennis
Research interests: Phenomenological intersections with anthropology, especially in the areas of food and eating, drugs and alcohol and music; anthropology of human-animal relationships; anthropology of migration, memory, forgetting and remembering, and movement, esp. among Persian women in Australia; human relationships to place and environment. Current ethnographic area of interest: Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Australia.

Dr Don Gardner (on leave)
Research interests: Social theory, Melanesian societies, cosmologies in historical perspective, cultural response to material conditions.

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
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; cultural transformation; globalisation and media; culture and personhood.

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.

Ms Doreen Montag
Research Interests: Critical medical anthropology, infectious diseases, clinical trials, pharmaceuticals, ethics in medical research, international health, development and health, Latin America, especially Peruvian Andes and Amazon.

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.

Dr Phillip Winn
Research interests: Political anthropology; state practices and subjectivity; sovereignty and violence; moral rationalities and resource use; Muslim identities and Islamic social diversity; place, dwelling and displacement; tourism; Maluku (eastern Indonesia); Timor Lesté; small island studies.

Academic Staff: Bioanthropology

Dr Robert Attenborough
Research interests: Human population biology, health (especially malaria) and nutrition in less developed countries; anthropological demography and population ecology; anthropological genetics; Papua New Guinea, Himalayas.

Dr David Bulbeck
Research interests: Human adaptation and cultural change, particularly in Southeast Asia but with growing attention to South Asia and to the southwest Pacific including Australia, incorporating complementary perspectives from biological anthropology, archaeology, ethnography, and history.

Professor Colin Groves
Research interests: Nonhuman primates, human evolution, mammalian taxonomy and biogeography, animal domestication.

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.