Membership of the HFRC is
entirely voluntary and free.
There are two categories,
member or associate, depending upon the degree of involvement one wants
with the organisation.
Members are those who are
willing and able to be involved in all the various activities of the Centre,
such as research projects, meetings, seminars and public events. Associates
are those who merely wish to be kept informed of the Centre's activities,
receive the Newsletter and possibly attend seminars.
New membership is welcomed.
So please, do spread the word and encourage those colleagues, friends
and associates you think might be interested in HFRC to read the Newsletter
and contact the editor.
Member
profiles
Iain Davidson
BA(Cam) PhD(Cam)
Professor of Archaeology, School of Human & Environmental Studies
Iain has broad interests in
empirical and theoretical issues in archaeology, particularly in the symbolic
construction of landscape and in the history of communications and transport.
He has been president of the Australian Archaeological Association (1991-2)
and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has just
begun work on a SPIRT grant with DLWC to research Gamilaraay Resource
Use.
Alan Atkinson
BAHons (Syd), MAHons (Syd), MEd (Dublin), PhD (ANU)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Professor of History, School of Classics, History & Religion
Alan is interested in nineteenth-century
Australian history and the way in which sense of place has evolved in
Australia. He has written on the history of Armidale, his history of nineteenth-century
Camden (1988) won two national awards and his book The Europeans in Australia:
Volume One, won an international and two national awards. He has been
chair of the Armidale branch of the National Trust, was involved in the
establishment of the UNE Heritage Centre in 1994 and is a Fellow of the
Australian Academy of the Humanities. He took up an ARC Professorial Fellowship
in the middle of 2003.
Pam Watson
BA Dip Ed. (Syd), MAHons Prelim(Syd), PhD (Syd)
Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Human &Environmental Studies
Pam has worked extensively
as an historical archaeologist and project director in Australia and the
Middle East. Prior to coming to UNE, she was Assistant Director of the
British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and History (Jordan), where
she was involved in field projects as well as management, communication,
strategic planning and policy in heritage areas. She is currently teaching
part-time in Archaeology and directing historical archaeology projects
in Armidale.
Maria Cotter
BA (UNE), PhD candidate (Southern Cross)
Research Fellow, School of Human & Environmental Studies
Maria conducts the day-to-day
research in the Gamilaraay Resource Use Project. This focuses on Gamilaraay
people's knowledge of resources and resource management in northern New
South Wales. The Project is funded by an ARC Linkage Grant to the Heritage
Futures Research Centre and its Industry Partner the Department of Land
& Water Conservation (Barwon Region). Before this, Maria was Research
Officer in the School of Environmental Science and Management at Southern
Cross University and Honorary Research Adviser with the Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit at the University of Queensland working
as part of a multidisciplinary team investigating the cultural heritage
of the Gooreng Gooreng people of Central Queensland. Maria has recently
co-edited a book entitled Heritage Landscapes: Understanding Place and
Communities.
Andrew Piper
BA (Hons) (Otago); MA (Hons) (UNE); PhD (UTAS)
Research Fellow, Heritage Futures Research Centre
In late 2003 Andrew was appointed
as a research fellow in the HFRC. He has worked in the field of cultural
heritage as an archaeologist, curator, conservation manager and historian
for over twenty years, in Africa, Australia, Micronesia and New Zealand.
For six years he was the senior heritage professional at the Port Arthur
Historic Site.
John Atchison
BA (Hons) (UNE); PhD (ANU)
Honorary Fellow, School of Classics, History & Religion
John researches in Australian
rural history, the historical context of land and water policy relating
to issues of regional development, immigration and migration history.
He is on the editorial advisory board of Rural History, Economy, Society
and Culture, has chaired the Committee for Geographical Names in Australia
(Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping 1987-1994) and was
elected member of the Board of the International Council of Onomastic
Sciences 1996-99.
Martin Auster
M.Sc.Soc. (UNSW), Member
of the Planning Institute of Australia
Senior Lecturer, School of Human & Environmental Studies
Martin is a town planner by
training. He is a member of the Planning Institute of Australia and has
taught in planning law, planning history, professional ethics, architecture
and urban design, and cultural geography. His interests lie mainly in
the relationship between people and place.
Wendy Beck
BSc (Melb), PhD (LaT)
Senior Lecturer, School of Human & Environmental Studies
Wendy teaches and researches
in public archaeology, archaeological method and theory and heritage tourism.
She is interested in the question of how and why people use space, both
as consumers and producers of archaeology, and how interdisciplinary research
with oral history and with palaeoethnobotany can address spatial questions.
She currently co-directs two large research projects on the north coast
of NSW. In all these projects she maintains an interest in the gendered
nature of both the practice of archaeology and its theory and has published
on this topic. In 1989 and in 1990 she was President of the Australian
Archaeological Association.
Frank Bongiorno
BAHons (Melbourne), PhD (ANU)
Lecturer, School of Classics, History & Religion
Frank publishes in the fields
of Australian labour, political and cultural history, and teaches units
in local history in the School of Classics, History and Religion at the
University of New England. He has previously taught History and Australian
Studies at the University of Canberra, the Australian National University
and Griffith University, and has also been an Australian Research Council
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University and Visiting
Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the University of Texas at Austin.
He is on the Editorial Board of Labour History and is Chair of the NSW
Ministry for the Arts, Literature and History Committee and a member of
the Arts Advisory Council.
John Ferry
BA (Sydney) BAHons (UNE), PhD (UNE), Dip Ed. (Syd.).
Senior Lecturer, School of Classic History & Religion
John teaches in Australian
history including Aboriginal history, architectural history, heritage
conservation, the history of the family in Australia and local history.
He has published extensively in local history including histories of Armidale,
Tenterfield, Port Macquarie, Junee, Walgett, Peel Valley, Moonbi Ranges
and Werris Creek and has undertaken several consultancies in the area
of heritage asset management for State Rail of New South Wales, Department
of the Attorney General, Parry Shire Council, Business Gunnedah (initiator
of its successful reputation as the Koala Capital of Australia) and private
businesses.
Peter Grave
BAHons, MA, PhD(Syd), GradDipHighEd
Lecturer, School of Human & Environmental Studies
Peter has wide ranging experience
in international research in Southeast Asia and Europe from scientific
analysis of archaeological materials to regional-scale land use studies,
which is now being applied at a regional level in Australia. He is a member
of the national specialist committee for Ion Beam analysis with the Australian
Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering and coordinates a national
program of Ion beam analysis for archaeological materials.
Robert Haworth
BA (Hons) (UNE); PhD (UTAS)
Senior Lecturer, School of Human & Environmental Studies
Has lectured
at UNE in geomorphology since 1994. Robert is involved with many research
projects associated with the changes brought about by European settlement
on the pre-European landscape of Australia. He is also interested in the
European-Australian landscape heritage, the fashion for planting certain
kinds of exotics, hawthorn hedges, cypress, Scots Fir, the homestead "clusters"
of exotic trees, changing fashions in urban street trees, and the spread
of some of these (such as Pistachio) into the countryside, including "exotic"
Grevillias, and the effects these have on native and introduced avifauna
and general fauna.
Nicole McLennan
BA(Hons), PhD
University Curator
Nicole has worked in a variety
of historical fields. She lectured at the Australian Catholic University
in Canberra and was a tutor at the University of Canberra before becoming
part of the small team of Research Editors at the Australian Dictionary
of Biography. She was a foundation curator at the National Museum of Australia
in Canberra, and is currently Coordinator for the New England and North
West Chapter of Museums Australia. As the representative for the University
of New England and Regional Archives, Nicole's role is to ensure that
projects undertaken by the Heritage Futures Research Centre are appropriately
archived and, where appropriate, that the public are able to access these
materials.
John Ryan
MA (NZ, Oxf), PhD (Cam, UNE),Dip of Hons. (NZ), GradDipContEd. (UNE),
Hon D.Litt. (MGSIUF), FSA (Scot), FRSA, FRGA, Hon DH Lett. of the American
Tolkien Society, Hon Fellow of the Commonwealth Biographical Academy (Cambridge)
Associate Professor, School of English, Communication & Theatre
John, New Zealand born, originally
trained as an historical linguist in England, has had many years Australian
experience as an adult educationalist and cultural historian in Northern
New South Wales. He has published much linguistic, biographical and other
material with the Armidale and District Historical Society, for whose
journal he was a long time editor, and for folklore journals worldwide.
He has researched closely our university outreach and provision, and edited
numerous regional survey books on tertiary education, pastoral history,
biography and Aboriginal lore. He has been the editor of Australian Folklore:
A Yearly Journal of Folklore Studies since 1991. His current teaching
and research focus is on heritage, folk life and traditional language
use in eastern Australia. A life member of the Folklore Society (London),
in 2001 he was elected to the International Society for Folk Narrative
Research. He is particularly interested in the literature produced in
New England and written about the region, as well as all aspects of its
traditional culture.
Janis Wilton
BAHons (Syd), PhD (UNE)
Senior Lecturer, School of Classics, History & Religion
Janis has over twenty years
experience researching, writing and presenting in the areas of oral history,
ethnic community history, and history and museums. She is the historian
and coordinator of the state funded Golden Threads Project on the Chinese
in regional NSW which has resulted in a website, a travelling exhibition,
a number of articles and presentations and assistance to a number of local
museums and historical associations. In 2002 Dr Wilton was elected President
of the International Oral History Association in and was reappointed as
a Trustee of the Historic Houses Trust of NSW by the state government
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