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Archaeology ProgramStaff Directory
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Professor of Archaeology |
Professor Tim Murray joined the Program in 1986 as Lecturer and (on the retirement of the foundation Chair Professor Jim Allen) was appointed to the Chair of Archaeology in 1995. He has also taught at the University of New South Wales, the University of Sydney, Cambridge University, the University of Leiden (The Netherlands), the Université de Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne), and the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (Paris) and the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003 and Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities in Australia in the same year.
Research interests: the history, philosophy and sociology of archaeology; theoretical archaeology (particularly issues of temporality); contact archaeology; the archaeology of the modern world; heritage issues. He is editor of The Bulletin of the History of Archaeology.
Sir John Lubbock and the foundation of prehistoric archaeology
Building Transnational Archaeologies in the Modern World 1750-1950
An Archaeology of Instritutional Confinement: the Hyde Park barracks 1848-1886
Traces, Collections, Ruins: Towards a Comparitive History of Antiquarianism
The Origin and Development of the Tongan Empire
Urban Archaeology in Melbourne
Exploring the Archaeoogy of the Modern City
Robert knox, James Hunt, and the Birth of British Archaeology 1810-1865
>>Research PublicationsClick here for publications 2000-2008. Recent Books and articles include: T Murray 2007, Milestones in Archaeology. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara. T Murrayand C Evans Ed., 2008, Histories of Archaeology, Oxford University Press, New York. Penny Crook and Tim Murray 2006, The Historical Archaeology of the First Government House Site, Sydney: Further Research. Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney, NSW. |
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I welcome inquiries from students interested in pursuing postgraduate research in theoretical archaeology, the history, philosophy and sociology of archaeology, archaeological heritage management, archaeology of the modern world (particularly migration, technology transfer, indigenous historical archaeology and urban archaeology), and the archaeology of Australia generally. Specific topics in each of these areas can be developed through discussion.
I am also keen to assist archaeological heritage management practitioners transform heritage projects into contributions to academic discourse. Major projects at urban sites such as Casselden Place, the Hyde Park Barracks and the Cumberland Gloucester Street site in Sydney’s Rocks have been successfully re-engaged with, and published.
Penny Crook PhD ‘Superior Quality': Exploring the Nature of Quality Cost and Value in Historical Archaeology
Chris Davey PhD The Foundation of the Australian Institute of Archaeology and the Origins of its Ancient Near Eastern Museum Collection
Greg Deftereos PhD A Comparative Study of Archaeological Boundaries
Tania Hardy-Smith PhD Art and Archaeology in Australia: The Contribution of Archaeology to the Formation of Cultural Identity
Geoffrey Hewitt PhD An Archaeology Of Utopia? Herrnhut Commune, Western Victoria
Michael Lever PhD The rise and fall of postprocessual archaeology
Pamela Riccardi MA Two Cities Apart: Nineteenth-Century Working Class Consumer Practice in Melbourne and Buenos Aires
Noriaki Sato PhD The Other Side of Archaeology
Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory PhD Remembrance and Neglect in Modern Greek Consciousness: the Search for Identity in the Mortuary Landscape of Rural Greece
Since appointment to La Trobe Professor, Tim Murray has won 10 grants from the Australian Research Council and 26 grants from other agencies both in Australia and internationally. These have funded research in the history and philosophy of archaeology, theoretical archaeology, historical archaeology and the prehistoric archaeology of Australia.
Murray has three research projects currently underway.
Origins and Development of the Tongan Maritime Empire (Australian Research Council Discovery with Dr Geoffrey Clark, ANU)
Traces, Collections, Ruins: Towards a Comparative History of Antiquarianism (Getty Foundation for the Collaborative Research Project Team members: Irene Aghion, Alain Schnapp, Tim Murray and Lothar von Falkenhausen).
An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement: the Hyde Park Barracks 1848-1886 (Australian Research Council Linkage with Peter Davies, La Trobe).