Biography

Sean Ulm is Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at James Cook University and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Queensland Museum and a Fellow of the Cairns Institute.

Sean’s research focuses on persistent problems in the archaeology of northern Australia and the western Pacific where understanding the relationships between environmental change and cultural change using advanced studies of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sequences are central to constructions of the human past. His priority has been to develop new tools to investigate and articulate co-variability and co-development of human and natural systems.

His publications include more than 150 articles on the archaeology of Australia and 5 books. He is a former President of the Australian Archaeological Association Inc., is Editor-In-Chief of Australian Archaeology and Queensland Archaeological Research, and sits on the editorial boards of The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology and Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society.