Wendy van Duivenvoorde

Qualifications

PhD,
Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA 2008

MA Cum Laude,
Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2000

Propedeuse Cum Laude,
Art History and Archaeology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1993

Current research

• Ships' Timber: The dendro–archaeology of seventeenth–century Dutch East   Indiamen Batavia and Vergulde Draak;
• Copper and Lead Sheathing in VOC Shipbuilding;
• The Rigging and Sailing of VOC Ships Batavia, Vergulde Draak, Zuiddorp, and Zeewijk;
• The Zuiddorp Caryatid Herm: The archaeological study of an early eighteenth–century stern decoration from a Dutch East Indiaman;
• Pelsaert’s Unlucky Voyage: Published how many times?

Biography

Dr Wendy van Duivenvoorde is an adjunct lecturer in archaeology at UWA and an assistant curator of the Department of Maritime Archaeology of the Western Australian Museum. Her current research is focused primarily on maritime trade and shipbuilding in the ancient Mediterranean and Northern Europe.

A graduate degree in Mediterranean Archaeology from the University of Amsterdam and her interest in shipwreck archaeology led Dr van Duivenvoorde to continue her education and research as a student in Texas A&M University’s Nautical Archaeology Program. Dr van Duivenvoorde is the recipient of various awards and fellowships, and is a grantee of the Fulbright Association.

Dr van Duivenvoorde has participated in shipwreck surveys and excavations in Australia, Italy, Spain, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. From 2000 to 2006, she assist–directed the post–excavation research of the Late Bronze Age shipwreck (±1325 B.C.) excavated off Uluburun in Turkey by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. The Uluburun shipwreck is considered one of the ten most important archaeological discoveries of the twentieth century.*

Dr van Duivenvoorde was awarded a PhD degree from the Department of Anthropology of Texas A&M University in August 2008. Her PhD dissertation on late sixteenth– and early seventeenth–century Dutch shipbuilding focuses primarily on ships of exploration and Indiamen, and includes the archaeological material of Western Australia’s Dutch Indiamen, in particular Batavia (1629). Dr van Duivenvoorde’s study of the Batavia ship was based primarily upon the existing hull remains, now in the Shipwreck Galleries of the Western Australian Museum, contemporaneous archival material and archaeological remains of similar–type ships. For her Batavia shipwreck research alone, Dr van Duivenvoorde has been awarded 15 grants and fellowships to date.

An additional research interest comprises ancient ship’s fastenings and anchors. Dr van Duivenvoorde has become a specialist in the study of ship’s fastenings dating to the ancient Greek and Roman periods. She has conducted research on the metal fasteners and anchors excavated from ancient Mediterranean merchantmen such as the Tektas Burnu (±440–425 B.C.) and Kyrenia (3rd century B.C.) shipwrecks.

Her area of expertise includes nautical archaeology, classical archaeology, computer applications in archaeology, archaeobotany, archaeometallurgy, technological advancement, ancient Mediterranean ship construction and technologies, ancient Mediterranean seafaring and seamanship, and European shipbuilding (in particular that of the Dutch United East India Company), seafaring, and seamanship.

* "The Ten Greatest Discoveries of the Twentieth Century," Scientific American 1.6 (1999): 40-43.

Publications

• (Forthcoming) The Batavia Shipwreck: An archaeological study of a seventeenth-century Dutch East Indiaman. Monograph in the Nautical Archaeology Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
• (Forthcoming) "The Metal Fasteners of the Kyrenia Ship." Chapter in the final publication of the Kyrenia shipwreck excavation. Monograph in the Nautical Archaeology Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
• (Forthcoming) "The Anchors of the Kyrenia Ship." Chapter in the final publication of the Kyrenia shipwreck excavation. Monograph in the Nautical Archaeology Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
• (Forthcoming) Chapter V. "The Ship: Hull remains, anchors, and eyes." Chapter in the final publication of the Tektas Burnu shipwreck excavation. Monograph in the Nautical Archaeology Series. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
• (In press) "More than Just Bits of Hull: Expensive oak, laminate construction, and goat hair. New insights on Batavia’s archaeological hull remains." Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 29 (2009): 59-68, 72-73.
• (In press) "The Fifth–Century B.C. Shipwreck at Tektas Burnu, Turkey: Evidence for the ship’s hull from nail concretions." In Tropis IX: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Ship Construction in Antiquity, Agia Napa 2005, edited by H. Tzalas. Athens: Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition.
• With C. Souter (ed.), R. Anderson, A. Paterson, and T. Campbell, Report on the 2007 Western Australian Museum, Department of Maritime Archaeology, Batavia Survivor Camps Area, National Heritage Listing Archaeological Fieldwork. Department of Maritime Archaeology, Western Australian Museum, Report, no. 224. Fremantle, 2007.
• With Cemal Pulak. "Das Institute for Nautical Archaeology in der Türkei." Skyllis, Jahrgang 2003/4, Heft 1–2 (2007): 129–40.
• "Nautische Archäologie an der Texas A&M University aus der Sicht einer Studentin." Skyllis, Jahrgang 2003/4, Heft 1–2 (2007): 16–20.
• "Just Released. Ships’ Fastenings: From sewn boat to steamship by Michael McCarthy." INA Quarterly 33.3 (2006): 24–25.
• "News and Notes: Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation Lecture Series." INA Quarterly 33.3 (2006): 27.
• "Capturing Curves and Timber with a Laser Scanner: Digital imaging of Batavia." INA Quarterly 32.3 (2005): 3–6.

Funding received

• Marion C. Cook Fellowship, Nautical Archaeology Program, Texas A&M University, 5 April 2005;
• Marine Archaeology Committee Scholarship, Marine Technological Society, 1 April 2005;
• Cecilia Connelly Memorial Scholarship, Women Divers Hall of Fame, 28 December 2004;
• AUF Liberal Arts Meritorious Graduate Student Tuition Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 13 December 2004;
• Nautical Archaeology Program Travel Grant, Texas A&M University, 24 December 2004;
• Carolus Magnus Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, 10 June 2004;
  Research and Presentation Grant, Association of Former Students and the Office of Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University, 11 May 2004;
• Institute of Nautical Archaeology Scholarship, Texas A&M University, 29 November 2004;
• Nautical Archaeology Program Travel Grant, Texas A&M University, 9 December 2003;
• Stichting Studiefonds Ketel I, 29 April 2003;
• Stichting Trireme Grant, University of Amsterdam, 24 December 2002;
  Nautical Archaeology Program Travel Grant, Texas A&M University, 6 December 2002;
• Stichting Trireme Grant, University of Amsterdam, 26 May 2001;
  Allard Pierson Stichting Grant, University of Amsterdam, 26 May 2001;
• Institute of Nautical Archaeology Scholarship, Texas A&M University, May 2001;
• Catharine van Tussenbroek Fonds, Vereniging van Vrouwen met een Hogere Opleiding/International Federation of University Women, 24 April 2001;
• Talentenprogramma, Nuffic, 15 August 2000;
• Stichting Fundatie Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude, 15 May 2000;
• Jo Kolk Studiefonds, Vereniging van Vrouwen met een Hogere Opleiding/International Federation of University Women, 17 April 2000;
• Fulbright Grant, 13 June 2000 (until August 2006);
• Dr Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds, 17 May 2000.

Languages

Dutch, German, and English. Reading: French, Italian, and Latin.

Memberships

• Council Member, Life Member, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA);
• Committee Member, Maritime Archaeology Association of Western Australia (MAAWA);
• Committee Member, Rottnest Island Cultural Heritage Advisory Committee (RICHAC);
• Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäologie (DEGUWA)/German Society for Underwater Archaeology;
• Member, Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), Texas A&M University;
• Member, Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA).

Honours and awards

• Best Student Paper, ASHA/AIMA Annual Conference 2006, Darwin, Australia (Paper Title: From Batavia Onwards: New Light on Dutch Shipbuilding), 14–18 September 2006;
• College Liberal Arts Dissertation Research Award, Texas A&M University, 16 April 2004;
• Student Research Week Award, Texas A&M University, 2003;
• Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Research Award, Texas A&M University, 3 March 2003.