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Professor Tim Murray

Professor Tim Murray

Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Professor of Archaeology

Tel: (61 3) 9479 2978
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1881
Email: t.murray@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BA(Double Hons) Sydney, PhD Sydney.

 

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.

Research Projects
Histories of Archaeology book
Research Publications

Click here for publications 2000-2008. Recent Books and articles include:

  • T Murray and C Evans Ed., 2008, Histories of Archaeology, Oxford University Press, New York.
  • T Murray 2008 'Paradigms and metaphysics or 'Is This the End of Archaeology as We Know It?', Time in Archaeology: Time Perspectivism Revisited, Ed(s). Simon Holdaway and LuAnn Wandsnider, Salt Lake City, University of Utah Press, pp. 170-180.
  • T. Murray 2008 'Prehistoric archaeology in the 'Parliament of Science' 1845-1884', Archives, Ancestors, Practices - Archaeology in the Light of its History, Ed(s). Nathan Schlanger and Jarl Nordbladh, New York and Oxford, Berghahn, pp. 59-71.
  • T Murray 2007, Milestones in Archaeology. ABC-Clio, Santa Barbara.
  • T Murray 2007, 'Rethinking antiquarianism, Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 17(2)

    Penny Crook and Tim Murray 2006, An Historical Archaeology of Institutional Refuge: Life at the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney. Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney, NSW.
  • 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.
Graduate Supervision Areas and Topics

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.

Current Graduate Supervision
  • 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 Ricardi 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

Research Grants
Since appointment to La Trobe Professor Tim Murray has won 11 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.       

Professor Murray has four research projects currently underway.

  • A Historical Archaeology of the Commonwealth Block 1850-1950 (Australian Research Council Linkage with Dr C Smith). Collaborating Partner - Museum Victoria.
  • 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).
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Last Updated: 13 November, 2009