Professor Wendy Van Duivenvoorde

Professor, Maritime Archaeology

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

+61 8 8201 5195

wendy.vanduivenvoorde@flinders.edu.au

Humanities

GPO Box 2100, ADELAIDE, SA, 5001

Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde is a professor of maritime archaeology at Flinders University. She is a recognized authority in seafaring, shipbuilding, technology and knowledge transfer, cultural contact, and maritime cultural heritage. Her research primarily examines global seafaring, including historical and archaeological studies of Western Australia's early European shipwrecks and shipbuilding in the Australian colonies. Additionally, she is passionate about ancient ships and seafaring, having contributed to the 3rd-century Kyrenia Ship project for over 20 years. Her regional focus spans Australasia, the Indian Ocean, and Europe, and she holds specialized expertise in legacy data, maritime landscape studies, archaeological artefacts, maritime museum collections, waterlogged and in-situ conservation, dendrochronology, archaeometallurgy, and archaeometry.

Qualifications

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)

Honours, awards and grants

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):

Australia Awards Fellowship, Maritime Cultural Heritage: Protection, Conservation, Tourism, and Management, Round 18, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (R180959). Awarded: 22 May 2023, $272,626.71, 2023-2024;
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), 2022-2026;
ARC Discovery, Before Cook: Contact, Negotiation and the Archaeology of the Tiwi Islands, Chief Investigator, 2020-2026;
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.

Key responsibilities

Research Section Head, History, Archaeology, Indigenous Studies & Geography (2023-2025)
Maritime Archaeology Program Coordinator (2013-2020)

Topic coordinator

ARCH8158 Ships: Research, Recording and Reconstruction

ARCH2204 Australian Maritime Archaeology

ARCH8157 Methods in Underwater Archaeology

ARCH8156 Maritime Archaeology Advanced Field Practicum

ARCH8160 Ships and seafaring in the Indian Ocean

ARCH8309A Advanced Research Projects

ARCH8150 Maritime Archaeology in Australia

ARCH8159 Coastal and Foreshore Archaeology

ARCH8154 Underwater Cultural Heritage: Legislation, Management and Interpretation

ARCH8152 Maritime Archaeological Field School

ARCH2211 Ships and seafaring in the Indian Ocean

ARCH8155 Seafaring in the Ancient World

ARCH3309 Maritime Archaeological Field School

ARCH2216 Seafaring in the Ancient World

Topic lecturer

ARCH1001 Discovering Archaeology

ARCH8021 Introduction to Professional Archaeology

ARCH2110 Lands Beneath the Winds: Archaeology of Southeast Asia

ARCH1007 Ancient Egypt to the Aztecs: Foundations of Urban Life

ARCH1002 From the Palaeolithic to Pompeii: An Exploration of World Archaeology

Professional engagement

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, Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology Conference 2022, Adelaide;
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/