Professor Wendy Van Duivenvoorde
Professor, Maritime Archaeology
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde is a professor of maritime archaeology and the Research Section Head, History, Archaeology, Indigenous Studies & Geography at Flinders University. She is a leading expert in the areas of seafaring, shipbuilding, technology and knowledge transfer, culture contact, and maritime cultural heritage. Her studies primarily focus global seafaring and include historical and archaeological studies related to Western Australia's early European shipwrecks and shipbuilding in the Australian colonies. She has an additional research interest in ancient ships and seafaring and has been a team member of the 3rd-century Kyrenia Ship project for over 20 years. Her regional focus is mainly Australasia, the Indian Ocean region, and Europe. She also has specialist knowledge of legacy data, maritime landscape studies, archaeological artefacts, maritime museum collections, waterlogged conservation, in-situ conservation, dendrochronology, archaeometallurgy and archaeometry.
Doctor of Philosophy, Anthropology (Nautical Archaeology), Texas A&M University (2008)
Masters of Arts, Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Amsterdam (2000)
Propedeuse, Art History, University of Amsterdam (1993)
Awards in the last 10 years:
- Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation in Teaching Award, 2022 (team award);
- Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Team Award for Innovation in Teaching (for Microcredential MICR-PSDC Professional Scientific Diver), 2022 (team award);
- Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision, 2020;
- Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences Excellence in Research Supervision Award 2020;
- John Lyman Book Award, Naval and Maritime Science and Technology, North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH), 2015 (for Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding);
- Flinders University Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellow 2015;
- Flinders University Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Researchers 2013.
Grants (a selection from the last 10 years):
- ARC Linkage, Mobilising Dutch East India Company collections for new global stories, Chief Investigator (LP210300960), 2023-2027;
- Australia-France Social Science Collaborative Research Program, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Chief Investigator, 2022-2024;
- ARC Linkage, Reuniting cargoes: Underwater Cultural Heritage of the Maritime Silk Route, Chief Investigator (LP210200165), 2022-2025;
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ARC Discovery, Before Cook: Contact, Negotiation and the Archaeology of the Tiwi Islands, Chief Investigator, 2020-2023;
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George and Ann Bass Endowment for Nautical Archaeology Publications, The Kyrenia Ship Publication: The Hull, Rigging, and Equipment, https://nauticalarch.org/publication-funding/, 2020;
- Cultural Foundation, Netherlands Embassy, 2019; (Activity no. GCE-2017-03), 2018; (Activity no. GCE-2017-03), 2017; (Activity no. GCE-2017-05), 2017;
- Honor Frost Foundation Maritime Archaeology Research Grant, 2019, 2017;
- Honor Frost Foundation Supplemental Research (w/ J. Benjamin), 2017, 2016;
- Commonwealth Asia Post-Graduate Program, Vietnam Postgraduate Maritime Archaeology Programme, 2017;
- Cultural Foundation, Netherlands Embassy, Dirk Hartog Historical Research Project (Activity no. GCE-2016-07), 2016;
- ARC Linkage, Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties, Chief Investigator (LP130100137), 2013-2019.
Research Section Head, History, Archaeology, Indigenous Studies & Geography (2023-present)
Maritime Archaeology Program Coordinator (2013-2020)
2015 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - APR 2016
2015 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - APR 2016
2017 SHA Kathleen Kirk Gilmore Dissertation Award - JAN 2017
2020 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAR 2021
2020 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAR 2021
2020 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAR 2021
2021 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAY 2022
2022 Vice-Chancellor's Prize for Doctoral Thesis Excellence - MAR 2023
Professional
- Adjunct Lecturer, Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Western Australia;
- Affiliated Scholar, Member, Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), Texas A&M University;
- Editorial Advisory Board, BAR Series: Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology (https://www.barpublishing.com/sub-series/cultural-studies-in-maritime-and-underwater-archaeology/);
- Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology;
- Editorial Board Member, Australasian Journal of Maritime Archaeology;
- Editorial Committee Member, Special Publications of the Australian National Centre of Excellence for Maritime Archaeology;
- Chair UNESCO UNITWIN Network for Underwater Archaeology (2015-2018);
- Chair, Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology Conference 2017, Adelaide;
- Board Member, Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA, 2010-2017);
- Organising Committee Member, Indian Ocean World Centre 2012 Conference, Perth;
- Council Member, Life Member, Scholarship Committee Member, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA).
Media (a selection: see full list on https://flinders.academia.edu/WendyVanDuivenvoorde)
- Georgie Burgess, Shipwreck of Tasmanian-built schooner Barbara gives archaeologists new insights into colonial boatbuilding (5 April 2020): https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-05/shipwreck-at-rye-confirmed-as-tasmanian-ship-barbara/12103294
- Anne-Christine Scherer, Madagaskar: Niederländische Seefahrer nutzten Felspostsystem, EPOC (25 May 2012): http://www.epoc.de/alias/madagaskar/niederlaendische-seefahrer-nutzten-felspostsystem/1152525
- Theo Toebosch, Poste restante onder stenen en rotsen: Mosgroei, tropische regenbuien, wind en zeewater hebben de poststenen sterk aangetast, NRC Handelsblad (14 May 2012): Wetenschap NH_NL01_016. See: http://archief.nrc.nl/index.php/2012/Mei/14/Wetenschap/nhnl01016/Poste+restante+onder+stenen+en+rotsen/check=Y
- Earliest Dutch post restante in the Indian Ocean? See video: http://player.vimeo.com/video/42171028 (from Flinders Indaily, 15 May 2012, page 3).
- SBS Radio Netherlands High Light: Een berichtje uit 1601 via de "rotspost"/A message from 1601 via rock mail (part 1 of 2). See: http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/dutch/highlight/page/id/215159/t/You-have-a-message--from-1600/
- Research
- Ancient Mediterranean Seafaring
- Australian Maritime Archaeology
- Australian Shipbuilding
- Batavia Shipwreck
- Dendro-archaeology
- Dutch East India Company
- Historic Shipwrecks
- Kyrenia Shipwreck
- Maritime Archaeology
- Post-medieval seafaring
- Underwater Cultural Heritage
- Vergulde Draeck Shipwreck
- Wooden shipbuilding
- Zeewijk Shipwreck
- Zuytdorp Shipwreck
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