Alice Gorman

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Alice Gorman (born 1964) is an Australian archaeological consultant and lecturer with the Department of Archaeology at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. She is an expert in Indigenous stone tool analysis, however, is best known for her research into space archaeology, particularly, the archaeology of orbital debris, terrestrial launch sites, and satellite tracking stations. Alice lectures in modern material culture studies, cultural heritage management, Australian stone tools, archaeological laboratory methods, as well as supervising a number of Masters and PhD students.

Alice graduated from The University of Melbourne in 1986 with a BA (Hons) before working as an archaeological consultant in the Indigenous heritage management sector. She returned to study in the late 90s and obtained a PhD from The University of New England in 2001. Her doctoral thesis examined how archaeologists can identify tools used in body modification through usewear and residue analysis ^[1]. After graduating, she continued working as an archaeological consultant before receiving a permanent lecturing position at Flinders University in 2005. In addition to lecturing at Flinders, Alice continues to work in the Indigenous heritage management sector on short-term contracts.

From an early age, Alice wanted to be either an astrophysicist or an archaeologist. While she initially decided to become an archaeologist, she has reconciled the two by turning her research focus onto the archaeology of space, or simply space archaeology (for the use of satellite imagery to examine archaeological sites and landscapes, see remote sensing). Since the mid-00s, she has produced a number of publications on space archaeology and is credited for pioneering the concept of space as a cultural landscape. Alice's space archaeology research includes the orbital debris of Vanguard 1, Woomera and Kourou terrestrial launch sites, and the Orroral Valley Tracking Station. In 2012, Alice received recognition for her work on the archaeology of space when she was invited to present at TEDx Sydney.

Alice is a member of Faculty of the International Space University, an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University, an assessor for the Australian Research Council, and a member of numerous space and archaeology organisations. She writes regularly for The Conversation, where she details much of her space archaeology research for a general audience.

• Gorman, A.C. In preparation Space Archaeology. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press
• Gorman, A.C. In preparation The archaeology of space. In Peter Dickens and James Ormrod (eds) The Handbook of Society and the Universe. Palgrave Macmillan
• Gorman, A.C. and Beth Laura O’Leary 2013 The archaeology of space exploration. In Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. pp 409-424 Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Gorman, A.C. 2013 Space archaeology In Claire Smith (Editor in chief) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, SpringerReference
• Wallis, L., Gorman, A. and H.D. Burke 2013 The opportunities and challenges of graduate level teaching in cultural heritage management. Australian Archaeology 76:52-61.
• Gorman, A.C. 2012 Space Archaeology. In Neal Silberman, ed. The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. USA: Oxford University Press, pp. 197-200.
• Burke, H.D., Gorman, A., Mayes, Ken and D. Renshaw 2011 The Heritage Uncertainty Principle: Excavating Air Raid Shelters from the Second World War. In Katsuyuki Okamura and Akira Matsuda, ed. New Perspectives in Global Public Archaeology, pp 139-154. New York, USA: Springer
• Gorman, A.C. 2011 The sky is falling: how Skylab became an Australian icon. Journal of Australian Studies, 35(4):529-546.
• Wallis, Lynley and A.C. Gorman 2010 A time for change? Indigenous heritage values and management practice in the Coorong and Lower Murray Lakes region, South Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2010(1):57-73
• Gorman, A.C. 2009 The gravity of archaeology. Archaeologies: The Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 5(2):344-359
• Gorman, A.C. 2009 The archaeology of space exploration. In David Bell and Martin Parker (eds) Space Travel and Culture: From Apollo to Space Tourism, pp 129-142. Wiley-Blackwell
• Gorman, A.C. 2009 The cultural landscape of space. In Ann Darrin and Beth Laura O’Leary (eds) The Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology and Heritage, p 331–342. CRC Press: Boca Raton
• Gorman, A.C. 2009 Heritage of Earth orbit: orbital debris – its mitigation and heritage. In Ann Darrin and Beth Laura O’Leary (eds) The Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology and Heritage, pp 377–393. CRC Press: Boca Raton
• Gorman, A.C. 2009 Beyond the Space Race: the significance of space sites in a new global context. In Angela Piccini and Cornelius Holthorf (eds) Contemporary Archaeologies: Excavating Now, pp 161-180 Bern: Peter Lang
• Gorman, A.C. 2008 The primitive body and colonial administration: Henry Ling Roth’s approach to body modification. In Iain Davidson and Russell McDougall (eds) The Roth Family: Anthropology and Colonial Administration pp 83-103 Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA
• Gorman, A.C. 2007 La terre et l’espace: rockets, prisons, protests and heritage in Australia and French Guiana. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 3(2):153-168
• Gorman, A.C. and Beth Laura O’Leary 2007 An ideological vacuum: the Cold War in space. In John Schofield and Wayne Cocroft (eds) A fearsome heritage: diverse legacies of the Cold War, pp 73-92 Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, California
• Gorman, A.C. 2005a The cultural landscape of interplanetary space. Journal of Social Archaeology 5(1):85-107 Gorman, A.C.
• 2005b The archaeology of orbital space. In Australian Space Science Conference 2005, pp 338-357, RMIT University, Melbourne