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Tracy joined the University of Canberra in February 2009 as Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage. She previously led the Canberra office of Godden Mackay Logan, Heritage Consultants and is an archaeologist and heritage practitioner with over twenty years of practical experience covering a broad range of heritage based research, policy, planning and conservation management of a diverse range of places.

A feature of Tracys professional practice has been her work on social heritage values, Indigenous historic sites, complex cultural and natural places she has also developed GIS methodologies to use in heritage research and management planning. Tracy has prepared heritage management plans for nationally significant places such as the Australian War Memorial, Lake Burley Griffin, the Old Great North Road and the Defence lands of Jervis Bay.

Tracy graduated with Honours in Archaeology from the University of Sydney in 1984 and then worked for the Museum of Applied Arts and Science developing exhibitions for the new Power House Museum. She then joined the NSW Heritage Council and Department of Planning where she eventually became the Senior Archaeologist. Tracy gained her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2002her thesis was entitled An Artefact of Nation: Historical Archaeology, Heritage and Nationalism in Australia. Her most recent book, co-edited with Jane Lydon, Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia, was published in 2005.

Tracys research interests include all aspects of historical archaeology and heritage management, ethics in archaeology and conservation, the cultural politics of the past, contact history and archaeology, the interpretation of archaeological sites, cultural landscapes and landscape archaeology.

Selected Publications

Ireland, T and Casey, M 2006, Judy Birmingham in conversation, Australasian Historical Archaeology, Vol 24, Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology, Sydney, pp 716.

Lydon, J and Ireland, T (eds) 2005, Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.

Ireland, T 2005, The Quest for the True Endeavour: Archaeology, Authenticity and the National Sacred, in Lydon J, Ireland T (eds) Object Lessons: Archaeology and Society in Australia, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne.

Ireland, T 2004, The Burra Charter and Historical Archaeology: the legacy of Port Arthur, Historic Environment, Vol 18 (1), pp 2529.

Ireland, T 2003, The Absence of Ghosts: landscape and identity in the archaeology of Australias settler culture, Historical Archaeology, Vol 37, No. 1, pp 5672.

Ireland, T 2003, Tea and petites madeleines at the Museum of Sydney, experiencing the past in the urban environment, in Murray, T (ed), Exploring the Modern City: recent approaches to urban history and archaeology, Historic Houses Trust of NSW and La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Ireland, T 2002, Giving Value to the Australian Historic Past: Archaeology, Heritage and Nationalism, Australasian Historical Archaeology, Vol 20, pp 1525.

Byrne D, Brayshaw H, and Ireland T 2001, Social Significance: a discussion paper, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Hurstville.

2001, with Michael Given, Bernard Knapp et al, Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project: First Preliminary Report, Department of Antiquities Cyprus.

Ireland, T 2000, The Archaeology of Nation in Australia, World Archaeological Bulletin, 11, pp 6793.

Ireland, T (ed) 1999, Heritage Guidelines, Roads and Traffic Authority of NSW.

Ireland, T 1996, Excavating National Identity, SITES Nailing the debate: archaeology and interpretation in museums, Museum of Sydney, Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Sydney, pp 85106.

Ireland, T and Urwin, N 1993, Satellite Imagery and Landscape Archaeology: An Interim Report of the Environmental Component of the Vinhais Landscape Archaeological Project, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, Vol 5/6, 1992/1993, Sydney, pp 121131.

Ireland, T and Urwin, N 1991 Environmental Description of the Historic Landscape of the Concelho of Vinhais, in A. Cremin (ed), Beyond the Mountains; History and Landscape in North Portugal, University of Sydney.

Ireland, T 1989, Archaeological Zoning Plans for Urban Areas, in Urban Digs - Historical Archaeological Guidelines, Department of Planning, Sydney, pp. 85-39.

Field walking in the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus in 2004 for the TAESP project.