maggie ronayne

Lecturer 

Working in various countries with grassroots communities fighting for their lives, livelihoods, environment and cultural heritage against destructive development

Biography

Maggie Ronayne received her BA and MA from University College Cork (1992, 1994) and has also studied at the University of Southampton. She taught there and at Oxford University and trained students in excavation methods in Scotland, Ireland and France before joining the Department of Archaeology, NUI, Galway, in 1999.  Ex-officio executive member, World Archaeological Congress (1994-2003).

Office ARC214, Department of Archaeology, School of Geography and Archaeology, Arts/Science Building, NUI, Galway
Tel 091 493701
Fax 091 525700   
E-mail maggie.ronaynenuigalway.ie

Research

• Public archaeology focusing on cultural destruction, particularly by roads and dams development & the tourist industry
• Development of professional ethics and standards including mutual accountability between professionals and communities
• Highlighting and working to support the social and economic recognition of unremunerated work mainly of women to ensure the survival and defense of families, communities, culture and heritage
• Cultural destruction and manipulation of heritage during war and occupation

Current Writing Projects

• Archaeology and development: case studies in Ireland in an international context.
• Impact of large dams in southeast Turkey (for publication in Turkey).

Current Graduate Supervision

PhD

• Elizabeth O’Donoghue ( IRCHSS Scholar): Colonising the past: antiquarianism in Ireland from the 16 ^th to the 18 ^th centuries.

• Seosamh Bheilbigh  An Historical Archaeology of South Conamara in the Later Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

MA in Landscape Archaeology

• Kathryn DeTore: "Abandoned But Not Forgotten: A Landscape Study of a Nineteenth-Century Deserted Village".
• Jane O'Dwyer: An intra-site and wider landscape study of selected tholos tombs in Mesara, Crete.

Accepting Graduate research students in the following areas:  

• Public archaeology particularly impact of development on communities and their heritage and work to support them.
• Historical archaeology of the modern world (particularly 19 ^th century Ireland).
• Community archaeologies 
• Education and archaeology 
• Social history of archaeology  

Teaching

• AR325 Minor Dissertation in Archaeology (3BA)
• AR343 Public Archaeology (3BA)
• AR236 Interpretation in Archaeology (2BA)
• AR225 Hunters and Farmers in Early Europe (2BA)
• AR113 Prehistoric Ireland and Europe (1BA)
• AR114 Approaching the Past (training postgraduate tutors in teaching methods)
• MA in Landscape Archaeology: public archaeology in the heritage management module
• Diploma in Archaeology: occasional teaching on and off campus in Approaching the Past module

Administration

• College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies
  • Member, Executive Committee (2007-2009)
  • Member, Curriculum committee
• School of Geography and Archaeology
  • Member, School board
• Department of Archaeology
  • Member, teaching and assessment committee
  • Member, seminar committee
  • Member, library acquisitions committee
  • Departmental representative, exam boards
  • Senior tutor, 2BA
  • Examination officer 2BA
• Dissertation convenor 3BA

External Responsibilities

• Working with a wide variety of grassroots women’s, community and heritage organizations in Ireland and abroad.

Publications

Forthcoming

• 2010. The Cultural and Environmental Impact of Large Dams in Turkey (Turkish language), BGST press: Istanbul.  

Selected Publications 

• 2009. Commitment, Objectivity and Accountability to Communities: Priorities for 21 ^st Century Archaeology. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 10 (4), 367-381.  Published by Maney at www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney. ( Article in PDF Format - 101.27KB)
• 2008. The State We're In on the Eve of World Archaeological Congess (WAC) 6: Archaeology in Ireland vs Corporate Takeover.  Public Archaeology 7 (2), 114-129. ( Article in PDF Format - 248KB) (Published online at www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney).
• 2007.  The culture of caring and its destruction in the Middle East: women¹s work, water, war and archaeology. In Y. Hamilakis and P. Duke (eds), Archaeology and Capitalism. From ethics to politics, 247-265. One World Archaeology Left Coast Press, California.
• 2007. Fieldwork at the Pict’s Knowe; Holywood cursus complex, excavations (with J. Thomas et al.), 43-94 and 166-199. In J. Thomas et al. (eds), Place and memory. Excavations at the Pict¹s Knowe, Holywood and Holm Farm, Dumfries and Galloway, 1994-8. Oxbow Books, Oxford.
• 2006. Archaeology against cultural destruction: the case of the Ilisu dam in the Kurdish region of Turkey. Public Archaeology 5, 223-236.
• 2005.  The Cultural and Environmental Impact of Large Dams in Southeast Turkey.  London: National University of Ireland, Galway and Kurdish Human Rights Project. 166pp. ( Book in PDF Format - 2.39MB) .
• 2002. The Ilisu Dam: Displacement of Communities and Destruction of Culture. London: National University of Ireland, Galway and Kurdish Human Rights Project. 211 pp.
• 2001. The Political Economy of Landscape: Conflict and Value in a Prehistoric Landscape in Ireland. In B. Bender and M. Winer (eds.), Contested Landscapes: Movement, Exile and Place, 149-164. Oxford and New York: Berg.

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