Ross Trust sponsors Classics and Archaeology Collection curator
[ UniNews Vol. 14, No. 3
3 - 16 March 2005 ]
The University of Melbourne’s significant collection of pre-Classical (Egyptian and Near Eastern), Greek, Roman and medieval treasures has received three-year sponsorship of a newly created position of Curator-Lecturer from the R E Ross Trust.
The Classics and Archaeology Collection is located jointly in the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology and the Ian Potter Museum of Art.
The new position of Lecturer and R E Ross Curator of Classics and Archaeology was taken up recently by widely published archaeologist and University of Melbourne postgraduate scholar Mr Andrew Jamieson.
Mr Jamieson is a graduate of RMIT and the University of Melbourne and recently submitted his PhD at Melbourne. He has extensive archaeological field experience in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Australia.
His research interests include the archaeology of the ancient Near East and Egypt, particularly the study of ancient ceramics and ethnoarchaeology. In the mid-1990s he was involved in the UNESCO post-war salvage operations in Beirut before the commencement of that city’s massive rebuilding program.
Mr Jamieson has published widely in international journals, has taught at Monash University and until lately worked on various curatorial, conservation and field projects with Heritage Victoria.
The Classics and Archaeology Collection serves as the focus for a range of activities including teaching, research and publication and collection management work.
The R E Ross Trust is a perpetual charitable trust established by the will of the late Roy Everard Ross (1899-1970). Ross trained as a land surveyor and engineer and went on to become a successful local government engineer, property owner, businessman and investor.
For more information on the University’s Classics and Archaeology Collection see http://vm.arts.unimelb.edu.au/ Andrew Jamieson can be contacted on 8344 3403 or asj@unimelb.edu.au
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