Archaeology Program
Staff Directory
Dr Susan Lawrence
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Associate Professor & Program Coordinator
Room:Martin Building 164
Tel: (61 3) 9479 1790
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881
Email: s.lawrence@latrobe.edu.au
Qualifications: BA(Hons) Calgary, PhD La Trobe |
Dr Susan Lawrence is interested in the archaeology of British colonisation, gender, and material culture studies. Her research has focussed on the Australian gold rush, the colonial whaling industry, the pastoral frontier, and comparative studies of nineteenth-century British colonies. She is President of the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology and serves on the Archaeology Advisory Committee of the Heritage Council of Victoria. She is on the editorial boards of Australasian Historical Archaeology and Historical Archaeology, and has edited special volumes of both those journals. She is also on the editorial board of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.
Research Projects
- Pre-Gold Rush Settlement in South Gippsland, Victoria
(with Alasdair Brooks and Jane Lennon)
- York Town Archaeology Project
- Archaeologies of the British
- Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia and New Zealand
- Studies in Victoria's Goldfields Heritage
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Selected publications 1998-2008:
- 2008 A Maritime Empire: Archaeological Evidence for Van Dieman's Land Whaling in the Southern Oceans, Tasmanian Historical Studies, Vol. 13 pp.15-33.
- 2006 Whalers and Free Men: Life on Tasmania’s Colonial Whaling Stations. Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishers.
- 2003 Archaeologies of the British: Explorations of Identity in Great Britain and its Colonies 1600-1945, (ed.) Routledge, London.
- 2000 Dolly’s Creek: Archaeology of a Victorian Gold Fields Community. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
- 1998 The Archaeology of Whaling in Southern Australia, edited with Mark Staniforth, Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology and the Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology.
- In prep. An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788, with Peter Davies, Springer Publishing, New York.
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