Ottoman Archaeology: Localizing the Imperial
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O’Connor, Susan Sally Brockwell Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Basic Biographical Information Professor Susan Lillian O’Connor (Fig. 1) gained her B.A. (Hons, 1st class) in archaeology from the University of New England in 1980 and her Ph.D. from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1991. She worked as a lecturer and researcher at UWA until 1994 and joined the Australian National University (ANU) in the same year as a Research Fellow in the Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, now the Department of Archaeology and Natural History. She was Head of Department between 2005 and 2012 and was promoted to Professor in 2008 and in 2012 was made an Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow.
Major Accomplishments Sue’s wide research interests include the archaeology of Australia and Southeast Asia, coastal and island archaeology, maritime colonizations of Island Southeast Asia and Australia and the links between these regions, interactions between
humans and their environment, Southeast Asian rock art and rock art dating, the Neolithic transition in Southeast Asia, and technological change, innovation, and transmission theory. Sue is a dedicated fieldworker often working in remote locations under difficult conditions, e.g., in Arnhem Land, the Kimberley, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and East Timor. She has a special interest in the archaeology of the Kimberley region that spans over 20 years from her Ph.D. research and has continued to pursue active research in that region. Her thesis was entitled A Prehistory of the Islands of the Buccaneer Archipelago and Adjacent Mainland West Kimberley, Western Australia and concerns the nature of Pleistocene colonization and changes in occupation from the late Pleistocene through to the late Holocene (O’Connor 1999). In 1993 she was awarded an ARC grant to investigate the antiquity of occupation and cultural transformations in hunter-gatherer societies in the Oscar Napier Ranges. This project provided the first evidence of indigenous occupation of the Kimberley region dating back over 40,000 years as well as the earliest evidence for rock art production in Australia (O’Connor 1995; O’Connor & Fankhauser 2001). Sue has always worked closely with indigenous communities and has recently undertaken an Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies funded joint initiative with the Worrorra community to record rock art and assess the impact of cultural tourism on sites in their country in the
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coastal west Kimberley (O’Connor et al. 2008). Overseas, Sue has worked on research projects in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea (PNG), and East Timor and was one of the first archaeologists to work in East Timor after independence. She has discovered and excavated high-profile Pleistocene sites, including Jerimala
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