Staff
Topics in the Graduate Program in CHM are delivered by a range of specialist staff from different departments across the School of Humanities. In addition to permanent teaching and technical staff, the Maritime graduate program is supported by a range of adjunct staff and contract staff. Information about who delivers core components of the Program is provided below; you can also find out more information about each staff member by clicking on their name to access their general staff web page.
 Jennifer McKinnon has been working in the field of archaeology for over ten years working on a number of sites above and below the water. Her interests and experience involve Spanish colonial archaeology sites, specifically Spanish mission sites, landing sites, and shipwrecks. Her research on Spanish sites began in 1997at a 16 th century site in St. Augustine, Florida . In 2000 and 2001 she spent two field seasons investigating 17th century Spanish mission sites in Tallahassee, Florida. Also in summer of 2001 she took a position with the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP) in St. Augustine, Florida where she continued her research on Spanish colonial sites. Her Masters thesis (2002) involved investigations of a 17th century Spanish landing site in the St. Marks River where goods were offloaded and transported to inland missions. More recently she participated in a survey of thirteen 1733 Spanish shipwrecks off the Florida Keys in 2004 and an unknown 17th century Spanish shipwreck (Mystery Wreck) off Vaca Key in 2005.
Before commencing as a lecturer at Flinders University Jennifer worked for two years as a State Underwater Archaeologist for the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research. Prior to her position at the state, she taught courses on cultural anthropology and nautical archaeology at Florida State University and has held several teaching, research and staff assistantships at the university.
More recently Jennifer has begun researching South Australia's 19th century shipwreck shelter huts which provided shelter and food to shipwrecked sailors once they made it ashore. She has turned her focus toward the lifesaving stations located in Florida as well, and hopes to combine these two lines of research to investigate similar sites worldwide.
Mark was the State Maritime Archaeologist for Victoria for five years (1982-1987) and the Curator of Maritime Archaeology at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney for six years (1987-1993). He moved to Adelaide at the end of 1993 and completed his PhD on the material culture of colonial settlement through the analysis of material from shipwreck sites in 1999. This was published as Material Culture and Consumer Society by Plenum Press of New York in 2003.
His main areas of interest are maritime archaeology, material culture studies, underwater cultural heritage management , underwater cultural heritage law and historical archaeology. In addition Mark is interested in the interpretation, presentation and display of archaeological material particularly through museums. He teaches one First Year Archaeology topic Field Archaeology (ARCH 1003), two Second Year Archaeology topics Australian Maritime Archaeology (ARCH 2004 ) and The Museum (ARCH 2301) and three Third Year topics Archaeological Field Methods (ARCH 3302), Underwater and Coastal Archaeology (ARCH 3005 ) and Maritime Archaeology Field School (ARCH 3304). Mark also contributes to teaching in other topics offered by the Department of Archaeology and the School of Humanities. He is the convenor of, and teaches in, the Graduate Studies Program in Maritime Archaeology .
John was previously a secondary Technology Studies teacher working around South Australia, who returned to the University of Adelaide to complete a Bachelor of Science (with Honours) majoring in marine ecology and chemistry. He is a trained Coxswain, SCUBA instructor, CFS firefighter, and is Captain of the Norton Summit -Ashton brigade. His honours study was on the rocky reef herbivore Heliocidaris erythrogramma (the common purple sea urchin), its feeding at various population densities, and different food regimes. He and his wife have dived extensively around South Australia, in a number of areas across temperate Australia, and occasionally overseas. He has been diving for 30 years and has been a cave diver for 28 years. Special spots in SA are the wrecks around Wardang Island, the cuttlefish aggregation at Point Lowly, West Island (Victor Harbour), and camping in the Gammon Ranges.
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