Dr Richard Tuffin

Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Richard Tuffin

Email: rtuffin@une.edu.au

Biography

Richard Tuffin is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New England (2020-22). He conducts research in relation to the Australian convict period, in particular the deployment and management of unfree labour. His postdoc project focuses on an historical archaeological investigation of the workshops of the Port Arthur penal station (1830-77), examining the documentary and archaeological record for insight into the work regimes and outputs of the convict system. He works in the Digital Humanities, having produced for a previous project (Landscapes of Production and Punishment: the Tasman Peninsula 1830-77 [2017-20]) a webmap of Port Arthur. Alongside Professor Martin Gibbs he is also creating a similar mapping system for convict places throughout Australia.

Qualifications

Doctorate, University of Sydney, NSW, 2016

Awards

Carlyle-Greenwell grant, University of Sydney (2014)

Primary Research Area/s

Australian convict studies ; Archaeological remote sensing; Geographic Information Systems; Lifecourse analysis

Research Interests

Convict Landscapes: Locating Australia's Convicts, 1788-1868

“a mill for grinding rogues honest”: Convict Labour at an Australian Industrial Prison

Research Fellow on ARC-funded Landscapes of Production and Punishment: the Tasman Peninsula 1830-77 [2017-20]

Publications

Recent journal articles

GODFREY, B., C. HOMER, K. INWOOD, H. MAXWELL-STEWART, R. READ and R. TUFFIN 2020 (in press), 'Crime, Penal Transportation and Digital Methodologies', Journal of World History 32 (2).

TUFFIN, R., D. ROE, M. GIBBS, D. CLARK and M. CLARK 2020, 'Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Lidar and the Process of Feature Identification and Analysis at a Tasmanian Convict Station', Australian Archaeology 86 (1): 37-56.

TUFFIN, R. and M. GIBBS 2020, 'The Archaeology of the Convict Probation System: The Labor Landscapes of Port Arthur and the Cascades Probation Station, 1839–55', International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

TUFFIN, R. and M. GIBBS 2020, '‘Uninformed and Impractical’? The Convict Probation System and Its Impact Upon the Landscape of 1840s Van Diemen’s Land', History Australia 17 (1): 87-114.

TUFFIN, R. 2020, The Convict Places of Van Diemen's Land, 1803-77: Landscapes Project Database 4,  https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28596, University of New England.

TUFFIN, R. 2020, The Employment of Convicts at the Port Arthur Penal Station, 1830-77: Landscapes Project Database 3,  https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28599, University of New England.

TUFFIN, R. 2020, The Convict Trades of the Port Arthur Penal Station, 1830-77: Landscapes Project Database 2,  https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/28598, University of New England.

TUFFIN, R., M. GIBBS, D. ROBERTS, H. MAXWELL-STEWART, D. ROE, J. STEELE and S. HOOD. 2019, Convict Labour Landscapes, Port Arthur 1830-1877,  www.convictlandscapes.com.au, Landscapes of Production and Punishment: the Tasman Peninsula 1830-1877.

TUFFIN, R. and M. GIBBS 2019, 'Repopulating Landscapes: Using Offence Data to Recreate Landscapes of Incarceration and Labour at the Port Arthur Penal Station, 1830-1877', International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 13 (1-2): 155-181.

TUFFIN, R. and M. GIBBS 2019, 'Early Port Arthur: Convict Colonization and the Formation of a Penal Station in Van Diemen’s Land 1830–35', International Journal of Historical Archaeology 23: 568-595.

LOZANOVSKA, M., A. DELLIOS, R. MILLER-YEAMAN, E. EKLUND, D. BEYNON and R. TUFFIN 2019, 'Forum: Industrial Sites and Immigrant Architectures. A Case Study Approach', Fabrications 29 (2): 257-272.

TUFFIN, R., M. GIBBS, D. ROBERTS, H. MAXWELL-STEWART, D. ROE, J. STEELE and S. HOOD 2018, 'Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Convict Labour in the Australian Context', Journal of Social Archaeology 18 (1): 50-76.

TUFFIN, R. 2018, 'Convicts of the 'Proper Description': The Appropriation and Management of Skilled Convict Labour', Labour History (114): 69-92.

GIBBS, M. D., R. L. TUFFIN, H. MAXWELL-STEWART, D. A. ROBERTS, D. ROE, J. N. STEELE, S. HOOD and B. S. GODFREY. 2018, Landscapes of Production and Punishment: Convict Labour Management on the Tasman Peninsula 1830–1877. Antiquity [Online], 92. Available: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/landscapes-of-production-and-punishment-convict-labour-management-on-the-tasman-peninsula-18301877/A33CBE5287D38F307BFC526871276BB3.

Reviews

TUFFIN, R. 2019, 'Book Review: Sean Winter, Transforming the Colony: The Archaeology of Convictism in Western Australia  ', Australasian Historical Archaeology 37: 91.

TUFFIN, R. 2019, 'Book Review: A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies', History: Review of New Books 47 (3): 70-71.

Recent media:

BURGESS, G. 2020, ‘Thousands of convicts died in Tasmania. Where many lie remains a mystery’, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-05/finding-tasmanias-lost-convict-burial-sites/12271334

13 March 2020 – interview with Lucy Breaden, ABC Drive

TUFFIN, R., M. GIBBS 2019, ‘Why archaeology is so much more than just digging’, https://theconversation.com/why-archaeology-is-so-much-more-than-just-digging-108679.