Australian National University, 1949-1998

Component identifier:

Series 7

Content Summary:

In 1965 Mulvaney joined the Australian National University's Research School of Pacific Studies as a Senior Fellow in Prehistory. In 1971 he was appointed as the foundation Chair of Prehistory, and he went on to establish the Department of Prehistory in the Faculty of Arts in 1972. He retired in 1985, and from 1986 to 1990 was an Honorary Fellow in the Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of History.

The series features administrative correspondence, course work material, minutes of meetings, reports, newspaper clippings and other papers. The correspondence concerns such subjects as Mulvaney's appointment as foundation Chair of Prehistory, the establishment of the Department of Prehistory, staffing, course work, prizes, policies, funding, reviews and restructuring. There is also material relating to fieldwork and research projects at such sites as Fromm's Landing, Keilor, Kenniff Cave, Ingaladdi and Kintore.

Major correspondents include Harry Allen, Peter Baume, Judy Birmingham, H.C. Coombs, J.W. Davidson, Derek Freeman, Jack Golson, W.W. Howells, R.J. Lampert, Peter Lawrence, D.A. Low, Isabel McBryde, F.D. McCarthy, Vincent Megaw, Paul Mellars, Peter Read, P.A. Selth, Wilfred Shawcross, W.E.H. Stanner, R.D. Terrell, Norman Tindale and Russel Ward.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The original instalment of this collection (MS 9615) was donated by Professor Mulvaney under the Cultural Gifts Program in September 1999. Further instalments were received in 2013 and 2017.

Contents

Access and use