Dr Alice Gorman

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Melbourne
Doctor of Philosophy (Archaeology) UNE

Room: 0106 Humanities
Phone: 08 8201 5307
Fax: 08 8201 2784
Email: Alice.Gorman@flinders.edu.au

Research Interests

• Archaeology of Orbital Space
• Archaeology of World War Two
• Archaeology of Indigenous Australia
• Archaeology of Body Modification

Publications

Gorman, A.C. and Beth Laura O'Leary 2007 An ideological vacuum: the Cold War in space, in John Schofield and Wayne Cocroft (eds) A fearsome heritage: diverse legacies of the Cold War, Left Coast Press.

Gorman, A.C. 2007 The primitive body and colonial administration: Henry Ling Roth's approach to body modification, in Iain Davidson and Russell McDougall (eds) The Roth Family: Anthropology and Colonial Administration, Left Coast Press.

Gorman, A.C. 2005a The cultural landscape of interplanetary space, Journal of Social Archaeology 5(1):85-107.

Gorman, A.C. 2005b The archaeology of orbital space, Proceedings of the Fifth Australian Space Science Conference, RMIT, Melbourne. (PDF)

Gorman, A.C. (In Press) La terre et l'espace: rockets, prisons, protests and heritage in Australia and French Guiana, Archaeologies: the Journal of the World Archaeological Congress.

Gorman, A.C. (Forthcoming) Beyond the Space Race: the significance of space sites in a new global context, in Angela Piccini and Cornelius Holthorf (eds) Contemporary Archaeologies: Excavating Now, Peter Lang, Bern.

Current Research

Currently Teaching

Alice is in charge of the graduate course in CHM and teaches in both Archaeology and the Professional Studies course. In Archaeology, she is teaching ARCH 8014 Indigenous Heritage Management and ARCH8508 Directed Study in Cultural Heritage Management. In Professional Studies, she is teaching PROF2104/8001 Finding Money: Researching and submitting Grant Proposals and PROF2105/8002 Successful Tendering.

Overview

Alice completed a B.A. (Hons) at Melbourne University in Archaeology and Classics in 1986. For many years she worked as a consultant on projects such as First Government House, the Rouse Hill Infrastructure Project Stage 1, and the Narama Joint Venture in the Hunter Valley. In 1994-1995 she undertook research at the Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre at Oxford University, which led to a PhD at the University of New England on body modification and the origins of symbolic behaviour.

In 2000-2002, she worked as the Project Archaeologist for the raising of the Awoonga Dam in Queensland, and trained six young Indigenous women in cultural heritage management. She was Senior Conservation Officer at the Environmental Protection Agency in Rockhampton in 2002-2003, and coordinated the first National Archaeology Week in Central Queensland. In 2004 she was a guest lecturer at the International Space University Summer Session in Adelaide. She joined the Archaeology Department at Flinders University in 2005.

Links

Space Archaeology Blog: http://zoharesque.blogspot.com/
From space junk to world heritage listing: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/10/1055220598848.html
Cleaning up space junk may erase history: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1644380.htm
One giant (scrap) heap for mankind? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3623239.stm
The Current (CBC Radio, Canada) http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2007/200702/20070207.html
Space Archaeology Wiki-"our future is in ruins" http://www.spacearchaeology.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Archaeology magazine, 'Conversation: Saving Space Junk' http://www.archaeology.org/0711/etc/conversation.html

Presentations

The Archaeology of Air Raid Shelters.