Andrew is associate professor of Near Eastern archaeology and has extensive field experience in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Georgia and Australia. In the mid-1990s he was involved in the UNESCO post-war salvage operations in Beirut, then for ten seasons he worked at Tell Ahmar in northern Syria.
As well as teaching at Melbourne, he has lectured at Monash University and spoken at numerous public events. In 2015, he won the Barbara Falk Award for Teaching Excellence. Andrew has also been involved in a range of curatorial, conservation and field projects with Heritage Victoria. For many years he was a member of the Archaeology Advisory Committee of the Heritage Council of Victoria. In 2014, Andrew was invited to represent Australia on the SHIRĪN International Committee, a Research Initiative for the Safeguarding and Protection of Syrian Heritage. Andrew first visited Georgia in 2017 and is now the director of the Georgian-Australian Investigations in Archaeology (GAIA) project. In 2019 Andrew led the intensive field school and excavation season at Rabati in South West Georgia.
Research
Andrew’s research interests include the archaeology of the ancient Near East and Egypt, and historical archaeology in Victoria. He specializes in the study of ancient ceramics and archaeological artefact collections.
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FEATURED Journal article
Grandfathers at Melbourne Museum: Shining a Spotlight on Overlooked Museum Visitors
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A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum collections
Research Grant
Museums: They’re good for your health
NEWS ARTICLE
Community Engagement and the ‘Syria: Ancient History – Modern Conflict. Exhibition and Sym..
Conference Proceedings
A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum collections
Research Grant
Finding the Hidden Hellenism in Melbourne
NEWS ARTICLE
Tell Ahmar: An Important Iron Age Site in the Euphrates Valley
Book Chapter
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Projects
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Internal Research Grant
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Research Contracts
Additional Information
Recent Grants & Awards:
(2020)
Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation (SRNSF) grant (No FR 17-415) ‘Changes and Continuity from the Early Bronze Age to the Antique period: Multidisciplinary Investigations in the Upper Kura basin, Rabati Settlement’ $26,000 Chief Investigators: BEDIANASHVILI, MARTKOPISHVILI, KAKHIANI, MAKHARADZE, JAMIESON, SAGONA, BIRKETT-REES, LONGFORD. BERTHON.
(2019)
FACULTY OF ARTS TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD for an innovative new curriculum initiative – known as Field Archaeology an overseas winter intensive level 3 subject : $5,000 Chief Investigators: JAMIESON
Faculty Internal Grants Scheme (FIGS) (Archaeology of the South Caucasus: Change and Continuity in the Upper Kura Basin):
4,450 Chief Investigators: JAMIESON, KIM, LORDKIPANIDZE, KOHN.EQUITY INNOVATION GRANT (Object-Based Learning: An Aspirational Educational Pathway for Disadvantaged Students in Rural Victoria): $38,619 Chief investigators: JAMIESON, VOLK.
(2017)
EQUITY INNOVATION GRANT (Object-Based Learning: An Aspirational Educational Pathway for Disadvantaged Students in Rural Victoria): $38,185 Chief investigators: JAMIESON, VOLK.
(2016)
ENGANGEMENT GRANT, University of Melbourne (Object-Based Learning: An Aspirational Educational Pathway for Disadvantaged Students in Rural Victoria): $20,000 Chief investigators: JAMIESON, VOLK.
HALLMARK AGEING RESEARCH INITIATIVE (HARI) (The Role of Cultural Institutions in Facilitating An Age-Integrated Society with a Focus on Older Cohorts in the Context of Global Ageing Populations): $27,450 Chief investigator/s: GAN, GAUNT, JAMIESON.
MCCOY PROJECT Seed Fund (The Museum Multiple):
9,961 Chief investigator/s: GAN, GAUNT, JAMIESON.DYASON FELLOWSHIP (Collaborative Pathways for Engagement with Middle Eastern Archaeological Objects: Disarming Social Disaffection): $2,546.00 Chief investigators: JAMIESON, BRUSIUS.
(2015)
BARBARA FALK AWARD FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne: $ 20,000 Chief investigator: A. JAMIESON.
MCCOY Strategic Australian Postgraduate Award (STRAPA) (Museum Objects and the Making of Meanings): $45,000, Chief investigators: USTUNDAG, JAMIESON.
(2014)
MCCOY PROJECT (2014/15) (Cellulose nitrate: Self destructive cultural heritage: management of CN materials in museum collections):
3,250 Chief investigator/s: NELL et al., JAMIESON.Scholarly Works
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
FSA - Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Associate Professor In Near Eastern Archaelogy
Historical And Philosophical Studies
Unesco Roster Of Experts
UNESCO Roster of Experts
Victorian Curriculum And Assessment Authority (Vcaa)
Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA)
Ad Trendall Research Centre For Ancient Mediterranean Studies In The Faculty Of Humanities And Social Sciences, La Trobe University
AD Trendall Research Centre for Ancient Mediterranean Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, La Trobe University
Archaeological And Anthropological Society Of Victoria
American Schools of Oriental Research
Melbourne College Of Reviewers, University Of Melbourne
Melbourne College of Reviewers, University of Melbourne
Alternate Archaeologist Member
Heritage Council Victoria
Archaeological And Anthropological Society Of Victoria
Archaeological and Anthropological Society of Victoria
Australian Institute Of Archaeology
Australian Institute of Archaeology
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Melbourne
Master of Arts
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts
University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Arts
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology