The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne: A Historical Archaeology

About Barbara MinchintonBronwyn WoffCharlotte SmithGeoff HewittJeremy SmithJustin McCarthyMs Sarah HayesRichard MackayTim Murray

Tim Murray joined the Program in 1986 as Lecturer and 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) Peking University Goteborg University the Institute of Archaeology University College London and the Nordic Graduate School in Archaeology. 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. He is editor-in-chief of The Bulletin of the History of Archaeology. From 2009-2014 he was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and in 2010 was made Charles La Trobe Professor of Archaeology. In 2015 he became Director of the Centre for the Archaeology of the Modern World (CAMW) based at La Trobe Universi Sarah Hayes is a historical archaeologist who researches quality of life and social mobility in 19th-century Victoria through the lives homes and rubbish of everyday people. She works within the Heritage and Indigeneity stream of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation. Geoff Hewitt first graduated in metallurgy and pursued an engineering career in the shipbuilding and repair industry. An active diver his first taste of archaeology was shipwreck excavation as a volunteer. This led to undergraduate and postgraduate studies in archaeology at La Trobe University and a new career as a contract and consulting archaeologist. Justin McCarthy is an archaeologist and the managing director of heritage consulting firm Austral Archaeology Pty Ltd. After graduating from Sydney University in 1982 he was archaeological consultant to the South Australian State Heritage Branch from 1983 to 1987. He directed some of the earliest and largest excavations in South Australia Queensland Victoria and Tasmania. He has been a member of Australia ICOMOS since 1981 and is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow at Flinders University. Austral Archaeology is currently an industry partner with Flinders University. Richard Mackay AM is the founder and 'Director of Possibilities' at Mackay Strategic and an adjunct professor in the archaeology program at La Trobe University. He is a Member of the National Executive Committee of Australia ICOMOS and a Casual Member of the NSW Planning Assessment Commission. In 2013 Richard was the inaugural winner of the Australian Heritage Council 'Sharon Sullivan Award' for his contribution to Australia's national heritage. In 2003 Barbara Minchinton is an independent researcher and volunteer at the Public Record Office Victoria. Since completing her doctorate on settlement in the Otways under Victoria's 19th century land acts she has worked on projects including the urban archaeology of Little Lon soldier settlement in Victoria after the First World War and women as landowners in Victoria. Charlotte Smith is Curator Emeritus Museums Victoria. Before her retirement in 2016 Charlotte was Senior Curator Politics & Society; a significant aspect of this role was the curation and management of the museum's extensive historical archaeology collection. She is a Partner Investigator on the ARC Linkage Project How Meston's 'Wild Australia Show' Shaped Australian Aboriginal History and was a Chief Investigator on the ARC Linkage Project An Historical Archaeology of the Commonwealth Block. Jeremy Smith is Heritage Victoria's Principal Archaeologist and has been a member of the Archaeology Advisory Committee of the Victorian Heritage Council since 2002. He has worked on sites throughout Australia and the Middle East and has contributed to a number of publications on significant excavation projects in Victoria with a focus on the archaeology of early Melbourne. He was also a key contributor to the award-winning book Ned Kelly: Under the Microscope (CSIRO Publishing 2014). Bronwyn Woff graduated from La Trobe University with a Bachelor of Archaeology and completed Honours in 2014. Her Honours thesis explored the reuse of glass bottles in early Melbourne. She specialises as an artefact cataloguer and analyst and worked as the research assistant for the La Trobe University Commonwealth Block project between 2015 and 2017.