Staff teaching in the Graduate Program in Archaeology

Dr Alice Gorman

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 as a part-time lecturer, and was appointed as a full-time lectuer in CHM in February 2008.

Dr Heather Burke

Heather is an historical archaeologist with research interests in the archaeology of standing structures, social memory and the creation of cultural landscapes, as well as the public interpretation and presentation of heritage sites. She graduated with a PhD from UNE in 1996, and has worked on historical and indigenous archaeological sites throughout New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory. Her PhD looked at the construction of social identity through style in architecture and the uses of the past in the present. Her current projects include an investigation of Indigenous-settler contact on the mining frontier in western Arnhem Land, and the archaeology of World War II in Adelaide. 

Heather is currently a series editor for the Global Cultural Heritage Manuals Series, published by Plenum/Kluwer Academic Press, New York, and the Worlds of Archaeology Series, published by AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, California.

Dr Lynley Wallis

Dr Lynley Wallis specialises in Indigenous archaeology and cultural heritage management, as well as palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University (Canberra) and a BSc (Hons) from the University of Western Australia (Perth). Before commencing as a lecturer at Flinders University in 2005, Lynley worked as a Senior Research Officer with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Canberra), as an independent consultant in Queensland, as a Senior Cultural Heritage Officer with the Heritage Unit, Environment ACT (Canberra) and as a lecturer at James Cook University (Townsville).

Since 2000 her interests have been in the northeastern part of the continent, working with Aboriginal communities in inland northwest Queensland on a range of research and cultural heritage projects. She has commenced a research project looking at relationships between Aboriginal people and early settlers during the mid- to late nineteenth century in the vicinity of the Woolgar, Norman and Flinders Rivers; this project is being undertaken collaboratively with members of the Woolgar Valley Aboriginal Corporation. Since relocating to Adelaide Lynley has also been developing research partnerships with the Ngarrindjeri community in the Coorong region just south of Adelaide, as well as with the Norwood/Payneham/St Peters Council focused on the Maesbury Street Cemetery site. 

Dr Sally May

Sally K. May is a ARCH Post-Doctoral Fellow at Griffith University in QLD, and offers ARCH8502 Rock Art Field School for the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University each year. She has worked with people in the Kunbarlanja community for 6 years and her Ph.D focused on the role of art in this township. Sally specialises and has published on rock art studies, ethnography, museology, and the archaeology of art.