Wendy Beck

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Wendy Beck
OccupationArchaeologist

Wendy Beck is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New England in archaeology and cultural heritage.

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Biography

Beck grew up in Melbourne. [1] She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a BSc in microbiology and biochemistry in 1979. Beck turned her attentions to archaeology after attending the Victorian Archaeological Survey Summer School in 1978–1979 and received a PhD from La Trobe University in 1986 on the subject of Technology, Toxicity and Subsistence: A Study of Australian Aboriginal Plant Food Processing. [1] During her postgraduate research, Beck conducted fieldwork in Arnhem Land, [1] and was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian National University working on a bush food dietary project in 1985. Beck was appointed a lecturer at the University of New England in 1986, within the Department of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology. [1]

A major area of research of Beck has been on plants [2] and gender archaeology, [3] drawing on archaeological fieldwork, ethnographic study, and archaeological science. Beck co-edited the first book to deal with archaeobotanical studies in Sahul, Plants in Australian Archaeology, with Anne Clarke and Lesley Head. Her significant contributions to archaeology are the study of plants and gender in archaeology, place studies, work on archaeology and Higher Education, and service to the archaeological profession. [1] Beck served as president of the Australian Archaeological Association from 1989 to 1990. [1]

Beck has received multiple Australian Research Council grants, a Carrick Grant, Environment Trust NSW Grant and a Partnership Industry Research Grant. [4]

Beck has edited books including Gendered Archaeology with Jane Balme, and Plants in Australian Archaeology. Plants in Australian Archaeology has been described as having accomplished "a great deal" in bringing the study of plants in Australian archaeology to the fore. [5]

Selected publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Appleton, John (2014), "Beck, Wendy E.", Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer New York, pp. 831–834, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2397, ISBN   9781441904263
  2. Webster, Judy; Beck, Wendy; Ternai, Bela (1 September 1984). "Toxicity and bitterness in Australian Dioscorea bulbifera L. and Dioscorea hispida Dennst. from Thailand". Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 32 (5): 1087–1090. doi:10.1021/jf00125a039. ISSN   0021-8561.
  3. Beck, Wendy; Head, Lesley (2010). "Women in Australian Prehistory". Australian Feminist Studies. 5 (11): 29–48. doi:10.1080/08164649.1990.9961673 via Taylor & Francis Online.
  4. England, University of New. "Wendy Beck". www.une.edu.au. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
  5. Rindos, David (1992). "Plants in Australian Archaeology. Wendy Beck, Anne Clarke, and Lesley Head, editors. TEMPUS: Archaeology and Material Culture Studies in Anthropology Vol. 1. University of Queensland, Australia, 1989. viii + 213 pp., plates, figures, tables, references. $20.00 (paper)". American Antiquity. 57 (3): 569–570. doi:10.2307/280955. ISSN   0002-7316. JSTOR   280955.
  6. "Archaeopress". www.archaeopress.com. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
  7. Sheridan, Alison; O’Sullivan, Jane; Fisher, Josie; Dunne, Kerry; Beck, Wendy (2 October 2020). "Responding to institutional climate change in higher education: the evolution of a writing group to group peer mentoring" . Gender and Education. 32 (7): 891–907. doi:10.1080/09540253.2019.1594705. ISSN   0954-0253.
  8. Sheridan, Alison; O'Sullivan, Jane; Fisher, Josie; Dunne, Kerry; Beck, Wendy (19 June 2019). "Escaping from the City Means More than a Cheap House and a 10-Minute Commute". M/C Journal. 22 (3). doi: 10.5204/mcj.1525 . ISSN   1441-2616.
  9. Beck, Wendy; Haworth, Robert; Appleton, John (2015). "Aboriginal resources change through time in New England upland wetlands, south-east Australia". Archaeology in Oceania. 50 (1): 46–56. ISSN   0728-4896.