 Dr
Heather Burke
Senior Lecturer
Room: 108 Humanities
Phone: (08) 8201 3795
Fax: (08) 8201 2784
Email: heather.burke@flinders.edu.au
Research Interests
European constructions of cultural landscapes; Standing structures, style and
social identity; Ideology and capitalism; Mining; The frontier and contact; Working
class archaeology; Women in historical archaeology; Heritage interpretation and
the uses of archaeology; Archaeology of the Chinese in Australia
Recent Publications
2007 (with Claire Smith) Archaeology to Delight and Instruct: Active learning in the University Classroom. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek .
2007 (with Claire Smith) Digging it Up Down Under: A practical guide to doing archaeology in Australia . Plenum Press, New York .
2006 'Ideology and the material culture of life and death'. In Stephen W. Silliman and Martin Hall (eds), Historical Archaeology. Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, London : pp. 128-146.
2004 (with Claire Smith) The Archaeologist's Field Handbook. Allen and Unwin, Sydney .
2003 (with Claire Smith) 'In the Spirit of the Code'. In Ethical Issues in Archaeology, edited by K. D. Vitelli, L. J. Zimmerman and J. Hollowell-Zimmer, AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek .
1999 Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology. Plenum Press, New York , Global Contributions to Historical Archaeology series.
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.
Heather teaches ARCH2002 Historical Archaeology of Australia, ARCH3004
Comparative Colonialism, and ARCH3303
Historical Archaeology Field School. She also teaches ARCH3301
Archaeological Theory and Method.
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