Matthew Spriggs

Emeritus Professor Matthew Spriggs

  • Post Nominals: FAHA, FRAI, FSA, MAE
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 1998
  • Section(s): Archaeology

Biography

Matthew Spriggs is an archaeologist specialising in the archaeology of the Pacific Islands and Island Southeast Asia, as well as in the historiography of archaeology in those regions and in Australia. He gained his PhD at The Australian National University (ANU), and taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for six years (1981-7) before returning to ANU as a Fellow and then Senior Fellow in what became the Division of Archaeology and Natural History in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies. In 1997 he assumed the Professorship of Archaeology in the what is now the School of Archaeology and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at ANU. He retired in March 2021 and now lives mainly in Vanuatu where he is an Honorary Curator of Archaeology in the National Museum and the Honorary Librarian of the Vanuatu and Pacific Collections in the National Library.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.