Claire Smith

Experience

• –present
  Professor of Archaeology, Flinders University
• 2020–present
  Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
• 2017–2018
  Dean (Research), College of HASS, Flinders University
• 2015–2016
  Adjunct Professor, Kyushu University
• 2008–2008
  Research Professor, University of Newcastle
• 2004–2005
  Assistant Professor, Columbia University
• 2000–2001
  Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History
• 1994–1998
  ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New England

Education

• 1996 
  University of New England, Archaeology

Publications

• 2020
  Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer. 2nd edition
• 2020
  Prospect Hill: Memories of a Burned Village, Wakefield Press
• 2019
  Pursuing social justice through collaborative archaeologies in Aboriginal Australia, Archaeologies
• 2017
  The Social and Political Sculpting of Archaeology (and Vice Versa). El modelado social y político de la Arqueología (y viceversa), Pyrenae
• 2017
  The Archaeologist’s Field Handbook., Allen & Unwin. 2nd edition. Co-authored by H. Burke and M. Morrison
• 2016
  Beswick Creek Cave Six Decades Later: Change and Continuity in the Rock Art of Doria Gudaluk, Antiquity
• 2016
  The Islamic State’s Symbolic War: Socially Mediated Terrorism as a Threat to Cultural Heritage, Journal of Social Archaeology
• 2016
  Social Media and the Destruction of World Heritage as Global Propaganda (chapter), Proceedings of II International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: People and Communities. Mahón, Menorca, Balearic Islands, Spain. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Madrid, Spain.
• 2015
  Global Divides and Cultural Diversity: Challenges for the World Archaeological Congress. , Archaeologies 11(1):4-41
• 2015
  Success Strategies for a Career in Archaeology, Archaeologies 11(2):300-33
• 2014
  We’ve got better things to do than worry about whitefella politics’: Contemporary Indigenous graffiti and recent government interventions in Jawoyn Country, Australian Archaeology 78:75-83
• 2007
  Archaeology to Delight an Instruct: Active Learning in the University Classroom, Left Coast Press
• 2005
  Becoming Binford: fun ways of teaching archaeological theory and method, Public Archaeology 4: 35-49.

Grants and Contracts

• 2019
  Ochre archaeomicrobiology: a new tool for understanding Aboriginal exchange

  Role:

  CI

  Funding Source:

  ARC (DP190102219)

• 2019
  Indigenous Cultural Heritage as a Facilitator for the Sustainable Development Goals

  Role:

  CI

  Funding Source:

  SPARC - Indian Govt

• 2014
  Sharing the Heritage of Prospect Hill

  Role:

  CI

  Funding Source:

  SEWPAC (YCH-1206622-620)

• 2013
  The Ngadjuri Heritage Project

  Role:

  CI

  Funding Source:

  SEWPAC (77157)

• 2009
  Archaeology in the Longrass: Understanding Contact Through the Analysis of Urban Aboriginal Fringe Camps

  Role:

  CI

  Funding Source:

  ARC (LP100100876)

• 2009
  Archaeology in the long grass: A study of Aboriginal fringe camp sites in the urban hinterland around Darwin, Australia

  Role:

  CI

  Funding Source:

  ARC (DI100100297)

• 2004
  Shared and Separate Histories

  Role:

  CI

  Funding Source:

  ARC (DP0453101)

Professional Memberships

• World Archaeological Congress
• Australian Archaeological Association
• Australian Institution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
• Society for American Archaeology
• Fellow, Australian Academy of Humanities
• Fellow, Antiquaries Society, London

Research Areas

• History And Archaeology Not Elsewhere Classified (219999)
• Anthropology Not Elsewhere Classified (160199)
• Archaeology (2101)
• Gender Specific Studies (169901)

Honours

Lifeteime Achievement Award, World Archaeological Congress, 2016; Lucy Mair Medal and Marsh Award, Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 2018