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Associate Professor
The University of Western Australia (M257), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Martin Porr is Associate Professor of Archaeology and a member of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at the University of Western Australia (UWA). He was recently awarded an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship for the project “Deep Time Images in the Age of Globalisation: Contemporary Heritage, Future Opportunities” (2024-2028).
He has published widely on Palaeolithic art and archaeology as well as general theoretical aspects of archaeological and rock art research. He has conducted fieldwork in Germany, Thailand, Australia, India, and the Philippines. He is currently engaged in active field research in the Kimberley, Western Australia. His research has so far concentrated on aspects related to decolonising approaches in archaeological, anthropological, and ethnographic collections research, Palaeolithic archaeology, the Palaeolithic art of Europe as well as Australian rock art, and he has co-edited several volumes on these themes:
His research is also published in major journals, such as PlosONE, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Current Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory and Antiquity.
Martin Porr’s research career has been diverse, with previous employments at the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte (Halle/Saale, Germany), and as Museum Director of the Städtische Museen Quedlinburg (Germany). He teaches archaeology at undergraduate and honours level and supervises postgraduate research students. He was Discipline Chair for Archaeology at UWA and the Major Coordinator for Archaeology at UWA.
During his career he has received grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Australian Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), the Arts and Humanities Research Board of the British Academy, the National Geographic Society, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and other institutions. Between August 2015 and October 2017 as well as September and November 2022, he was based at the Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte at the Universität Tübingen (Germany) as a Senior Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow.
Australian Research Council (Future Fellowship - Deep Time Images in the Age of Globalisation. Contemporary Heritage, Future Opportunities)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (The German Ethnographic Expeditions to the Kimberley, Northwest Australia. A Collaborative Assessment of Research History, the Interpretation of Australian Aboriginal Heritage and Digital Repatriation)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Senior Research Fellowship)
Australian Research Council – Linkage Grant (Kimberley Visions - The Origins of Rock Art Provinces in Northern Australia)
Wenner-Gren Foundation – Workshop grant (Decolonisation and Human Origins: Being and Becoming ‘Us’)
National Geographic Global Exploration Fund (In Search of the Earliest Human Colonists of the Philippine Archipelago)
UWA Research Collaboration Award/Worldwide Universities Network Mobility Research Programme (Images of Images: Applying digital recording technology in the analysis, management and visualization of Kimberley rock-art)
National Geographic Society/Waitt Grants Program (Return to Oomarri: Dating and preserving north-western Australian Indigenous rock-art)
Research Development Award of the University of Western Australia (North of the Southern Arc: Discovering the pathways and conditions for the colonization of Australia)
Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) (The bark paintings of the 1938 Petri/Frobenius-Collection: Contexts and development of artistic practice in the Northwest Kimberley)
School of Social Sciences, Archaeology, University of Western Australia (2008 – 2023)
Institut für Prähistorische Archäologie und Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg (2004 – 2006)
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (1996 – 1997)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Archaeology, Doctor of Philosophy, Reflections of Human Beings: The Aurignacian Art of Central Europe , University of Southampton
1 Jul 1998 → 5 Jul 2002
Award Date: 5 Jul 2002
Archaeology, Master of Arts (Archaeological Theory), Interpreting Ethnoarchaeology. The Forager Revisionist Debate and Implications for Ethnoarchaeological Practice , University of Southampton
21 Mar 1996 → 21 Mar 1997
Award Date: 21 Mar 1997
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Other chapter contribution › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter › peer-review
Porr, M. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
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Porr, M. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
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Porr, M. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
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Porr, M. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
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Porr, M. (Creator), The University of Western Australia, 27 Feb 2013
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Porr, M. (Investigator 01)
ARC Australian Research Council
2/04/24 → 31/03/28
Project: Research
Porr, M. (Investigator 01)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG
2/11/20 → 3/11/23
Project: Research
Martens, J. (Investigator 01), Vujosevic, T. (Investigator 02), Porr, M. (Investigator 03), Corall, G. (Investigator 04) & Alessi, P. (Investigator 05)
The Society for Theatre Research
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Martens, J. (Investigator 01), Porr, M. (Investigator 02), Vujosevic, T. (Investigator 03), Corall, G. (Investigator 04) & Alessi, P. (Investigator 05)
The University of Western Australia
1/01/17 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Veth, P. (Chief Investigator), Ouzman, S. (Chief Investigator), Porr, M. (Chief Investigator), Zubieta Calvert, L. (Chief Investigator), David, B. (Chief Investigator) & Gleadow, A. (Chief Investigator)
ARC Australian Research Council
1/01/15 → 31/12/19
Project: Research
Ouzman, S. (Participant), Paterson, A. (Participant) & Porr, M. (Participant)
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference