Visiting Fellows

Dr Penelope Allison

Dr Allison held an ARC QEII fellowship in the School until August 2006. The topic of her ARC sponsored research was Engendering Roman Spaces: A Feminist Approach.

She is presently a 'New Blood' lecturer in the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at Leicester University.

Her main research fields are Roman and Australian historical archaeology, Roman painting, household archaeology, gender and space.

Her most recent publications are The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The finds, a contextual study. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006); Pompeii households: Analysis of the material culture, Monograph 42. (Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, (2004, reprinted 2005); The Casa della Caccia Antica (with Frank Sear) Häuser in Pompeji 11. (Munich: Hirmer, 2002).

She is working at ANU with Dr Aedeen Cremin and Ian Pritchard on the post-excavation analysis of the material from the Kinchega Archaeological Research Project.

Dr Valerie Attenbrow

Senior Research Scientist, Anthropology Branch, Australian Museum. Dr Valerie Attenbrow is engaged in a collaborative ANU/Australian Museum research project with Dr Hiscock - the Eastern Sequence Project.
Email: vala@austmus.gov.au

Dr Brit Asmussen

Dr Asmussen is a researcher focussing on taphonomy and plant analysis in Australia. She holds a Wenner-Gren Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Email: brit.asmussen@anu.edu.au

Dr Doreen Bowdery

Dr Bowdery is a researcher focussing on the field of phytolith analysis.
Email: doreen.bowdery@anu.edu.au

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.
Email: david.bulbeck@anu.edu.au

Dr Shirley Campbell

Dr Campbell completed her book, /The Art of Kula/, analyzing the art produced by men for Kula in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. She has continued her interests in the ways indigenous art reflects the contemporary aspirations of indigenous people to construct an identity that articulates with how they see themselves in a globalised discourse.

More recently she has initiated research that combines issues of embodiment within an Australian cultural context and 'gym culture'. In so doing, Dr Campbell is utilising anthropological insights and methodology to identify the elements that attract a segment of the Australian population into fitness centres and the processes of defining these cohorts as 'cultures' or sites for constructing, contesting, and displaying 'bodies'. She anticipates that this research will not only provide a greater understanding of how concepts of 'body' are developed, but hopes to turn this research towards policy development leading towards a healthier and more active population against an increasingly unhealthy backdrop to western lifestyles.
Email: shirley.campbell@anu.edu.au

Emeritus Professor Graham Connah

Professor Connah has written widely on African archaeology which is his main research field, his best-known book being African civilizations, published by Cambridge University Press and now in its second edition (2001). In 2004 he published a general book on the archaeology of Africa with Routledge, London, entitled Forgotten Africa, which has since been translated into German (2006) and French (2008). He was also one of the pioneers of Australian historical archaeology and in 2007 published The same under a different sky? A country estate in nineteenth-century New South Wales, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, UK. In 2008 he completed a book on archaeological writing for Cambridge University Press. Email: graham.connah@effect.net.au

Dr Aedeen Cremin

Dr Cremin is collaborating with Dr Penelope Allison on her work at Kinchega pastoral station, near Menindee, NSW.

Dr Peter Dowling

Dr Dowling is an archaeological historical and heritage consultant working on collaborative projects with archaeologists in the School.

Professor Francoise Dussart

Professor of anthropology, University of Connecticut, Francoise is in Australia to collect and analyse narratives from the Aboriginal residents of Yuendumu (primarily Warlpiri people) afflicted by chronic kidney disease.
Email: francoise.dussart@uconn.edu

Dr Andrew Glikson

Dr Andrew Glikson is an earth and paleoclimate scientist.

Projects:

A. Pliocene – Pleistocene – Holocene climates and human evolution
B. Factors underlying mass extinction of species
C. Early crustal evolution with focus on the role of asteroid impacts

Dr Ian Keen

Dr Keen has recently completed a book published by Oxford University Press on comparative study of Aboriginal economy and society at the threshold of colonisation. For more information on the book, visit Aboriginal Economy and Society
Email: ian.keen@anu.edu.au

Dr Margot Lyon

Dr Lyon's research interests include: critical medical anthropology; the anthropology of pharmaceuticals; emotion and embodiment; globalisation and change; Southeast Asian societies particularly Indonesia. She is currently working on a book on patterns of medicine use in Indonesia.
Email: margot.lyon@anu.edu.au

Dr Barry McGowan

Dr McGowan is a researcher examining Chinese Australian history and archaeology.

Email: barry@cyberone.com.au

Dr. Erik Meijaard

Dr. Erik Meijaard is a Senior Forest Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy - Indonesia. He is a member of the IUCN/SSC Deer Specialist Group and theGreat Ape Subsection of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, and Regional Coordinator for Asia and member of the IUCN/SSC Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Specialist Group. He is collaborating with Professor Colin Groves on a number of projects including studies on the morphometric variation in Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and Bornean Elephant (Elephas maximus) and in the longer term they plan to work on a book about the mammals of Sundaland.

Dr Mary-Jane Mountain

Dr Mountain is pursuing research interests in Melanesian archaeology, taphonomy, post-glacial European archaeology.
Email: mary-jane.mountain@anu.edu.au

Dr Ase Ottosson

Dr Åse Ottosson
Research Interests: Aboriginal Australia; anthropology of gender, sexuality and masculinity; intercultural theory; music anthropology; expressive cultural forms; media anthropology; politics of ethnicity and national identity.

Dr Pathmanathan Raghavan

Palaeontology of Pliocene to Holocene old world mammals, particularly carnivores and primates; Palaeopathology, Taphonomy, Biomineralisation, Depositional environments and ecological reconstruction of sub-Himalayan terrestrial deposits; comparative skeletal biology of vertebrates; Auxology (human growth studies), Development of Dravidian languages and their links with Sanskrit.
Email: pathmanathan.raghavan@anu.edu.au