Staff profile

Dr Anita Smith

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

MB 165, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-La Trobe), PhD (Archaeology-La Trobe).

Area of study

Archaeology

Research interests

Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas

- Archaeology of the Pacific Islands

Archaeology of Australia

- Cultural heritage management in the Australia Pacific region

Historical Archaeology

- UNESCO and World Heritage

Recent publications

  • Smith, A 2007, ‘Colonialism and the Bomb in the Pacific’ in John Schofield (ed.) Legacies of the Cold War, California: Left Coast Press. pp.51-72.
  • Smith, A & Dingwall, P 2007, World Heritage in the Pacific Islands, World Heritage 46:37-43.
  • Smith, A 2007, ‘Building Capacity In Pacific Island Heritage Management: Lessons from those who know best’, Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 3(3):335-352.
  • Smith, A & Buckley, K  2007, ‘The cultural landscape of New Caledonia’s convict past’, Historic Environment 20(2):27-32.
  • Smith, A & Jones, K 2007, Cultural Landscapes of the Pacific Islands, Paris: ICOMOS.
  • Smith, A 2007. 'Colonialism and the Bomb in the Pacific', in John Schofield (ed.), A Fearsome Legacies of the Cold war, California, Left Coast Press, pp. 51-72.
  • Smith, A 2006, ‘Levuka, Fiji Islands. A case study in issues of heritage management in the Pacific’ in I. Lilley (ed), Archaeology of Oceania: Australia and the Pacific Islands, Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology 8. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. Pp 346-362.
  • Beck, W, Murphy, D, Perkins, C, Perkins, T with Somerville, M & Smith, A 2005, 'Aboriginal Ecotourism and Archaeology in Coastal NSW, Australia: Yarrawarra Place Stories project'. In C. Smith, and M. Wobst (eds), Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonizing Theory and Practice, One World Archaeology 47. London and New York: Routledge. pp.226 – 241.
  • Smith, A 2004, ‘Are the Earliest Field Monuments of The Pacific Landscape Serial Sites?’, Records of the Australian Museum Special Supplement 29:133 – 138.
  • Smith, A 2003, ‘The Archaeology of no-man's land: Indigenous camps at Corindi beach, mid north coast NSW, Archaeology of Oceania’, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp.66-78.
  • Smith A 2002, ‘An Archaeology of West Polynesian Prehistory’. Canberra: Pandanus Press.

Research projects

  • Taputapuatea Marae and the ‘Opoa Valley (Tahiti) in the history of Polynesian Voyaging.
  • A representative and credible World Heritage List? The World Heritage Convention and global heritage conservation. 
  • UNESCO Cultural heritage programs and decolonisation in the Pacific Islands 1948 – 2000.