Associate Professor Sally May

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2024	May, S. K., Brady, L. M., Taçon, P. S. C., Miller, E., Jalandoni, A., Taylor, L., . . . Goldhahn, J. (2024). Brilliant blue: The blue rock art of Awunbarna, Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Archaeology, 1-17. DOI
  2023	Goldhahn, J., May, S. K., & Lee, J. (2023). The audience and the message: Nayombolmi's bark paintings from western Arnhem Land, Australia. Aboriginal History Journal, 47, 3-36. DOI
  2023	Tacon, P., Taylor, L., May, S., Goldhahn, J., Jalandoni, A., Ressel, A., & Mangiru, K. (2023). Majumbu ('Old Harry') and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection. Australian Archaeology, 89(1), 14-31. DOI Scopus1
  2023	Tsang, R., Katuk, S., May, S. K., Taçon, P. S. C., Ricaut, F. X., & Leavesley, M. G. (2023). Hand stencils and communal history: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania, 58(1), 115-130. DOI
  2022	Goldhahn, J., May, S., & Tacon, P. (2022). Picturing Nayombolmi: The most prolific known rock art artist in the world. Rock Art Research, 39(2), 155-167. WoS1
  2022	Miller, E., May, S. K., Goldhahn, J., Taçon, P. S. C., & Cooper, V. (2022). Kaparlgoo Blue: On the Adoption of Laundry Blue Pigment into the Visual Culture of Western Arnhem Land, Australia. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 26(2), 316-337. DOI Scopus5
  2022	Brady, L. M., Taylor, L., May, S. K., & Taçon, P. S. C. (2022). Meaningful choices and relational networks: Analysing western Arnhem Land’s Painted Hand rock art style using chaîne opératoire. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 65, 1-16. DOI Scopus3
  2022	Taçon, P. S. C., May, S. K., Goldhahn, J., Taylor, L., Brady, L. M., Ressel, A., . . . Maralngurra, G. (2022). Extraordinary Back-to-Back Human and Animal Figures in the Art of Western Arnhem Land, Australia: One of the World's Largest Assemblages. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 32(4), 707-720. DOI Scopus1 WoS1
  2022	Goldhahn, J., Taylor, L., Tacon, P. S. C., May, S., & Maralngurra, G. (2022). Paddy Compass Namadbara and Baldwin Spencer: an artist's recollection of the first commissioned Aboriginal bark paintings in Oenpelli, 1912. Australian Aboriginal Studies, 2021(2), 46-65.
  2022	Tsang, R., Katuk, S., May, S. K., Taçon, P. S. C., Ricaut, F. -X., & Leavesley, M. G. (2022). Rock Art and (Re)Production of Narratives: A Cassowary Bone Dagger Stencil Perspective from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 32(4), 547-565. DOI Scopus3
  2021	Hayward, J. A., May, S. K., Goldhahn, J., Jalandoni, A., & Taçon, P. S. C. (2021). An Analysis of Motif Clusters at the Nanguluwurr Rock Art Site, Kakadu National Park, N. T. Australia. Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(6), 414-428. DOI Scopus3 WoS4
  2021	Taçon, P. S. C., May, S. K., Wesley, D., Jalandoni, A., Tsang, R., & Mangiru, K. (2021). History Disappearing: The Rapid Loss of Australian Contact Period Rock Art. Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(2), 119-131. DOI Scopus9 WoS5
  2021	May, S. K., Taçon, P. S. C., Jalandoni, A., Goldhahn, J., Wesley, D., Tsang, R., & Mangiru, K. (2021). The re-emergence of nganaparru (water buffalo) into the culture, landscape and rock art of western Arnhem Land. Antiquity, 95(383), 1298-1314. DOI Scopus3
  2021	May, S. K., Rademaker, L., Goldhahn, J., Taçon, P. S. C., & Narndal Gumurdul, J. (2021). Narlim’s Fingerprints: Aboriginal Histories and Rock Art. Journal of Australian Studies, 45(3), 292-316. DOI Scopus4 WoS1
  2021	Goldhahn, J., May, S. K., & Taçon, P. S. C. (2021). Revisiting Francis Birtles’ painted car: exploring a cross-cultural encounter with Aboriginal artist Nayombolmi at Imarlkba Gold Mine, 1929–1930. History Australia, 18(3), 469-492. DOI Scopus1
  2021	Taçon, P. S. C., Wesley, D., & May, S. K. (2021). R. Lamilami, 1957–2021: Negotiating two worlds for cultural heritage. Australian Archaeology, 87(2), 220-225. DOI WoS1
  2021	May, S. K., Wesley, D., Goldhahn, J., Lamilami, R., & Taçon, P. S. C. (2021). The missing Macassans: Indigenous sovereignty, rock art and the archaeology of absence. Australian Archaeology, 87(2), 127-143. DOI Scopus8 WoS5
  2021	May, S., Goldhahn, J., Rademaker, L., Badari, G., & Taçon, P. (2021). Quilp's Horse: Rock art and artist life-biography in western Arnhem Land, Australia. Rock Art Research, 38(2), 211-221. Scopus4
  2021	Goldhahn, J., Biyalwanga, L., May, S. K., Blawgur, J., Taçon, P. S. C., Sullivan, J., . . . Lee, J. (2021). "Our dad's painting is hiding, in secret place": reverberations of a rock painting episode in Kakadu National Park, Australia. Rock Art Research, 38(1), 59-69. Scopus2 WoS5
  2021	May, S., Domingo Sanz, I., Goldhahn, J., Wright, D., & Maralngurra, G. (2021). Broadening out understanding beyond the 'Buffaroo'. Rock Art Research, 38(2), 222-223.
  2020	May, S. K., Wright, D., Sanz, I. D., Goldhahn, J., & Maralngurra, G. (2020). The buffaroo: A ‘first-sight’ depiction of introduced buffalo in the rock art of western Arnhem Land, Australia. Rock Art Research, 37(2), 204-216. Scopus5
  2020	Brady, L. M., May, S. K., Goldhahn, J., Taçon, P. S. C., & Lamilami, P. (2020). What painting? Encountering and interpreting the archaeological record in western Arnhem Land, northern Australia. Archaeology in Oceania, 55(2), 106-117. DOI Scopus7
  2020	Jalandoni, A., & May, S. K. (2020). How 3D models (photogrammetry) of rock art can improve recording veracity: a case study from Kakadu National Park, Australia. Australian Archaeology, 86(2), 137-146. DOI Scopus19 WoS10
  2020	Taçon, P. S. C., May, S. K., Lamilami, R., McKeague, F., Johnston, I. G., Jalandoni, A., . . . Goldhahn, J. (2020). Maliwawa figures—a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style. Australian Archaeology, 86(3), 208-225. DOI Scopus22 WoS15
  2020	Jones, T., Wesley, D., May, S. K., Johnston, I. G., McFadden, C., & Taçon, P. S. C. (2020). Rethinking the age and unity of large naturalistic animal forms in early Western Arnhem Land Rock Art, Australia. Australian Archaeology, 86(3), 238-252. DOI Scopus6 WoS1
  2020	Frieman, C., & May, S. K. (2020). Navigating Contact: Tradition and Innovation in Australian Contact Rock Art. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 24(2), 342-366. DOI Scopus12 WoS14
  2020	Goldhahn, J., May, S. K., Maralngurra, J. G., & Lee, J. (2020). Children and Rock Art: A Case Study from Western Arnhem Land, Australia. Norwegian Archaeological Review, 53(1), 59-82. DOI Scopus11
  2020	May, S. K., Taylor, L., Frieman, C., Taçon, P. S. C., Wesley, D., Jones, T., . . . Mungulda, C. (2020). Survival, Social Cohesion and Rock Art: The Painted Hands of Western Arnhem Land, Australia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30(3), 491-510. DOI Scopus14 WoS11
  2020	May, S. K., Huntley, J., Marshall, M., Miller, E., Hayward, J. A., Jalandoni, A., . . . Taçon, P. S. C. (2020). New Insights into the Rock Art of Anbangbang Gallery, Kakadu National Park. Journal of Field Archaeology, 45(2), 120-134. DOI Scopus21 WoS15
  2019	May, S. K., Maralngurra, J. G., Johnston, I. G., Goldhahn, J., Lee, J., O'Loughlin, G., . . . Tacon, P. S. C. (2019). 'This is my father's painting': a first hand account of the creation of the most iconic rock art in Kakadu National Park. Rock Art Research, 36(2), 199-213. WoS19
  2018	Goldhahn, J., & May, S. K. (2018). Beyond the colonial encounter: global approaches to contact rock art studies. Australian Archaeology, 84(3), 210-218. DOI Scopus5 WoS7
  2018	Hayward, J. A., Johnston, I. G., May, S. K., & Taçon, P. S. C. (2018). Memorialization and the Stencilled Rock Art of Mirarr Country, Northern Australia. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 28(3), 361-378. DOI Scopus8 WoS8
  2018	May, S. K., Johnston, I. G., Taçon, P. S. C., Domingo Sanz, I., & Goldhahn, J. (2018). Early Australian Anthropomorphs: Jabiluka's Dynamic Figure Rock Paintings. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 28(1), 67-83. DOI Scopus23 WoS9
  2018	Wesley, D., Litster, M., O’Connor, S., Grono, E., Theys, J., Higgins, A., . . . Taçon, P. (2018). The archaeology of Maliwawa: 25,000 years of occupation in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land. Australian Archaeology, 84(2), 108-128. DOI Scopus9 WoS7
  2017	May, S. K., Wesley, D., Goldhahn, J., Litster, M., & Manera, B. (2017). Symbols of Power: The Firearm Paintings of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II). International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 21(3), 690-707. DOI Scopus21 WoS17
  2017	Domingo, I., Smith, C., & May, S. K. (2017). Etnoarqueología y arte rupestre: potencial, perspectivas y ética. Complutum, 28(2), 285-305. DOI Scopus4 WoS2
  2017	May, S. K., Marshall, M., Domingo Sanz, I., & Smith, C. (2017). Reflections on the Pedagogy of Archaeological Field Schools within Indigenous Community Archaeology Programmes in Australia. Public Archaeology, 16(3-4), 172-190. DOI Scopus10 WoS4
  2016	Wright, D., Langley, M. C., May, S. K., Johnston, I. G., & Allen, L. (2016). Painted shark vertebrae beads from the Djawumbu-Madjawarrnja complex,western Arnhem Land. Australian Archaeology, 82(2), 43-54. DOI Scopus12 WoS11
  2015	May, S., & Jones, T. (2015). Current themes in the study of material culture in the rock art of northern Australia. The Artefact, 38, 3-7.
  2015	Jones, T., & May, S. (2015). Rock Art and Ritual Function: the Northern Running Figures of western Arnhem Land. The Artefact, 38, 53-66.
  2014	Wright, D., May, S., Tacon, P. S. C., & Stephenson, B. (2014). A scientific study of a new cupule site in Jabiluka, western Arnhem Land. Rock Art Research, 31(1), 92-100.
  2013	Clark, M., & May K., S. (2013). Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences. DOI
  2013	May, S. K., Taçon, P. S. C., Paterson, A., & Travers, M. (2013). The world from Malarrak: Depictions of South-East Asian and European subjects in rock art from the Wellington Range, Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies, (1), 45-56. Scopus21 WoS19
  2013	May, S., Tacon, P. S. C., Wesley, D., & Pearson, M. (2013). Painted Ships on a Painted Arnhem Land Landscape. The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, 35(2), 83-102.
  2013	Tacon, P. S. C., & May, S. (2013). Ship Shape: An exploration of Maritime-Related Depictions in Indigenous Rock Art and Material Culture. The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, 35(2), 7-15.
  2012	Taçon, P. S. C., Aubert, M., Gang, L., Decong, Y., Hong, L., May, S. K., . . . Herries, A. I. R. (2012). Uranium-series age estimates for rock art in southwest China. Journal of Archaeological Science, 39(2), 492-499. DOI Scopus41 WoS35
  2011	Tacon, P. S. C., Langley, M., May, S., Lamilami, R., Brennan, W., & Wesley, D. (2011). A bird in the hand: response to Franklin and Szabo. Antiquity: a quarterly review of archaeology, 85, 327.
  2010	Taçon, P. S. C., Gang, L., Decong, Y., May, S. K., Hong, L., Aubert, M., . . . Herries, A. I. R. (2010). Naturalism, nature and questions of style in Jinsha River Rock Art, Northwest Yunnan, China. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 20(1), 67-86. DOI Scopus25 WoS20
  2010	May, S. K., Taçon, P. S. C., Wesley, D., & Travers, M. (2010). Painting history: Indigenous observations and depictions of the 'other' in northwestern Arnhem Land, Australia. Australian Archaeology, 71(71), 57-65. DOI Scopus51 WoS47
  2010	Tacon, P. S. C., May, S. K., Fallon, S. J., Travers, M., Wesley, D., & Lamilami, R. (2010). A MINIMUM AGE FOR EARLY DEPICTIONS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN PRAUS. AUSTRALIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, (71), 1-10. WoS52
  2010	Taçon, P. S. C., Langley, M., May, S. K., Lamilami, R., Brennan, W., & Guse, D. (2010). Ancient bird stencils discovered in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, Australia. Antiquity, 84(324), 416-427. DOI Scopus22 WoS23
  2010	Taçon, P. S. C., May, S. K., Fallon, S. J., Travers, M., Wesley, D., & Lamilami, R. (2010). A minimum age for early depictions of Southeast Asian Praus in the Rock Art of Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Australian Archaeology, 71(1), 1-10. DOI Scopus77
  2010	May, S. K., & Sanz, I. D. (2010). Making sense of scenes. Rock Art Research, 27(1), 35-42. Scopus31 WoS16
  2009	May, S. K., Mckinnon, J. F., & Raupp, J. T. (2009). Boats on bark: An analysis of groote eylandt aboriginal bark-paintings featuring macassan prau s from the 1948 arnhem land expedition, Northern Territory, Australia. International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 38(2), 369-385. DOI Scopus10 WoS7
  2003	May, S. (2003). Colonial collections of portable art and intercultural encounters in Aboriginal Australia. Before Farming, 2003(1), 1-21. DOI
  2003	Richards, N., & May, S. (2003). South Australia’s ‘Floating Coffin’: the diseased, the destitute, and the derelict Fitzjames (1852-c.1900). The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, 25(1), 20-39.

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2024	Rademaker, L., May, S., Maralngurra, G., & Goldhahn, J. (2024). Aboriginal Art and the Telling of History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. DOI
  2022	Tacon, P. S. C., May, S., Frederick, U. K., & McDonald, J. (Eds.) (2022). Histories of Australian Rock Art Research. Canberra: ANU Press. DOI
  2022	MAY, S. K. (2022). Karrikadjurren : Art, Community, and Identity in Western Arnhem Land. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2022	Smith, C., Pollard, K., Kanungo, A. K., May, S. K., Varela, S. L. L., & Watkins, J. (Eds.) (2022). The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies. Oxford University Press (OUP). DOI
  2022	Smith, C., Pollard, K., Kanungo, A. K., May, S. K., Varela, S. L. L., & Watkins, J. (Eds.) (2022). The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies. Oxford University Press (OUP). DOI
  2020	May, S. K., Rademaker, L., Nadjamerrek, D., & Narndal Gumurdul, J. (2020). The Bible in Buffalo Country: Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931. Canberra, ACT: ANU Press. DOI
  2018	Langley, M. C., Litster, M., Wright, D., & May, S. K. (2018). The archaeology of portable art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian perspectives. M. Langley, M. Litster, & S. May (Eds.), Routledge. DOI Scopus4
  2016	Sanz, I. D., Fiore, D., & May, S. K. (2016). Archaeologies of Art Time, Place, and Identity. Routledge.
  2013	Clark, M., & May, S. K. (Eds.) (2013). Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences. ANU Press. DOI
  2010	May, S. K. (2010). Collecting Cultures Myth, Politics, and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition. Rowman & Littlefield.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2024	May, S., Goldhahn, J., & Lee, J. (2024). Oral Histories and Indigenous Rock Art: Capturing Lives, Moments, Memories and Emotions. In C. Smith, K. Pollard, A. Kanungo, S. May, S. Lopez Varela, & J. Watkins (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies (pp. 19 pages). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI
  2024	May, S., Goldhahn, J., & Lee, J. (2024). Oral Histories and Indigenous Rock Art: Capturing Lives, Moments, Memories and Emotions. In C. Smith, K. Pollard, A. Kanungo, S. May, S. Lopez Varela, & J. Watkins (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Global Indigenous Archaeologies (pp. 19 pages). Oxford: Oxford University Press. DOI
  2022	Gumbuwa Maralngurra, J., May, S., & Goldhahn, J. (2022). Djimongurr (c. 1910-1969). In M. Nolan (Ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  2022	Tacon, P. S. C., May, S., Frederick, U. K., McDonald, J., & Blyth, M. (2022). Introduction. In P. S. C. Tacon, S. May, U. K. Frederick, & J. McDonald (Eds.), Histories of Australian Rock Art Research (pp. 1-8). Canberra: ANU Press. DOI
  2022	Tacon, P. S. C., May, S., Frederick, U. K., McDonald, J., & Blyth, M. (2022). Introduction. In P. S. C. Tacon, S. May, U. K. Frederick, & J. McDonald (Eds.), Histories of Australian Rock Art Research (pp. 1-8). Canberra: ANU Press. DOI
  2022	Clarke, A., May, S., Frederick, U. K., & Johnston, I. G. (2022). Style and substance: McCarthy versus Mountford and the emergence of an archaeology of rock art 1948–1960. In P. S. C. Tacon, S. May, U. K. Frederick, & J. McDonald (Eds.), Histories of Australian Rock Art Research (pp. 11-25). Canberra: ANU Press. DOI
  2022	Clarke, A., May, S., Frederick, U. K., & Johnston, I. G. (2022). Style and substance: McCarthy versus Mountford and the emergence of an archaeology of rock art 1948–1960. In P. S. C. Tacon, S. May, U. K. Frederick, & J. McDonald (Eds.), Histories of Australian Rock Art Research (pp. 11-25). Canberra: ANU Press. DOI
  2022	Lee, J., Goldhahn, J., & May, S. (2022). Nayombolmi (c. 1895–1967). In M. Nolan (Ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  2022	Goldhahn, J., & May, S. (2022). Nayombolmi and Djimongurr: Two prolific artists from western Arnhem Land. In M. Appel (Ed.), Inspired by Country: Bark Paintings from Arnhem Land, Northern Australia, The Gerd and Helga Plewig Collection. Münich: Museum Fünf Kontinente.
  2020	May, S., & Goldhahn, J. (2020). Rock Art and Children: Towards an Inter-Generational Perspective on Past and Present Visual Cultures. In C. Smith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2nd ed., pp. 1-13). Cham: Springer Nature. DOI
  2018	Domingo Sanz, I., May, S., & Smith, C. (2018). Etnoarqueología y arte rupestre en el siglo XXI: de la analogía directa a la redefinición del método arqueológico. In D. Garate (Ed.), Redescubriendo el arte parietal paleolítico. Últimas novedades sobre los métodos y las técnicas de investigación (Vol. 16, pp. 163-180). Spain: Kobie (anejos).
  2018	Wright, D., Langley, M. C., Litster, M., & May, S. K. (2018). In search of the archaeology of portable art from Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and Australia. In M. C. Langley, M. Litster, D. Wright, & S. K. May (Eds.), The Archaeology of Portable Art: Southeast Asian, Pacific, and Australian Perspectives (pp. 1-10). London, United Kingdom: Routledge. DOI Scopus1
  2017	Johnston, I. G., Goldhahn, J., & May, S. (2017). Dynamic Figures of Jabiluka: Chaloupka’s 4-phase theory and the question of variability within a rock art ‘style’. In B. David, P. S. C. Tacon, J. -M. Geneste, & J. -J. Delannoy (Eds.), The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land (Vol. 47, pp. 109-127). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press.
  2017	May, S., Shine, D., Wright, D., Denham, T., Tacon, P. S. C., Marshall, M., . . . Stephens, S. P. (2017). The Rock Art of Ingaanjalwurr, western Arnhem Land, Australia. In B. David, P. S. C. Tacon, J. -M. Geneste, & J. -J. Delannoy (Eds.), The Archaeology of Rock Art in Arnhem Land (pp. 51-68). Canberra, Australia: ANU Press.
  2017	May, S. K., Taçon, P. S. C., Wright, D., Marshall, M., Goldhahn, J., & Sanz, I. D. (2017). The rock art of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II). In B. David, P. Taçon, J. -J. Delanno, & J. -M. Geneste (Eds.), The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia (pp. 51-68). ACT, Australia: ANU Press. DOI
  2016	Inès, D., May, S., & Claire, S. (2016). Communicating through rock art: an ethnoarchaeological perspective. In O. Buchsenschutz, C. Jeunesse, C. Mordant, & D. Vialou (Eds.), Signes et communication dans les civilisations de la parole (pp. 9-26). Paris, France: Open Edition Books. DOI
  2016	May, S., Domingo Sanz, I., & Tacon, P. S. C. (2016). Arte rupestre de contacto: la versión Indígena de los encuentros interculturales en el noroeste de la Tierra de Arnhem (Australia). In F. Berrojalbiz (Ed.), La vitalidad de las voces indígenas: arte rupestre del contacto y en sociedades coloniales (pp. 83-106). Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
  2016	May, S. (2016). Learning art, learning culture: Art, education, and the formation of new artistic identities in Arnhem Land, Australia. In S. K. May, I. D. Sanz, & D. Fiore (Eds.), Archaeologies of Art: Time, Place, and Identity (pp. 171-194). New York, USA: Routledge. DOI Scopus20
  2016	Sanz, I. D., Fiore, D., & May, S. K. (2016). Archaeologies of art: Time, place, and identity in rock art, portable art, and body art. In I. Domingo Sanz, D. Fiore, & S. May (Eds.), Archaeologies of Art: Time, Place, and Identity (pp. 15-28). USA: Routledge. DOI Scopus20
  2015	May, S., Tacon, P. S. C., Wright, D., & Marshall, M. (2015). The Rock Art of Kakadu: past, present and future research, conservation and management. In S. Winderlich (Ed.), Kakadu National Park Symposia Series (pp. 36-44). Darwin: Parks Australia.
  2014	May, S. (2014). Maritime Contact Rock Art. In C. Smith (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Archaeology (pp. 4642-4645). New York: Springer.
  2014	May, S., & Tacon, P. S. C. (2014). Kakadu National Park rock art. In C. Smith (Ed.), Global Encyclopedia of Archaeology (pp. 3235-3240). New York: Springer.
  2013	Clark, M., & May, S. (2013). Understanding Macassans: a regional approach. In M. Clark, & S. K. May (Eds.), Macassan history and heritage: journeys, encounters and influences (pp. 1-18). Canberra: ANU Press.
  2013	Clark, M., & May, S. (2013). Understanding Macassans: a regional approach. In M. Clark, & S. K. May (Eds.), Macassan history and heritage: journeys, encounters and influences (pp. 1-18). Canberra: ANU Press.
  2013	Taçon, P. S. C., & May, S. K. (2013). Rock art evidence for Macassan–Aboriginal contact in northwestern Arnhem Land. In Macassan History and Heritage: Journeys, Encounters and Influences. ANU Press. DOI
  2012	Taçon, P. S. C., Ross, J., Paterson, A., & May, S. (2012). Picturing Change and Changing Pictures: Contact Period Rock Art of Australia. In A Companion to Rock Art (pp. 420-436). Wiley. DOI Scopus41
  2011	May, S. (2011). Piecing the History Together: An overview of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition. In M. Thomas, & M. Neale (Eds.), Exploring the Legacy of the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition (pp. 171-188). Canberra: ANU Press.
  2010	May, S. (2010). Art in Gunbalanya Today. In P. Carroll (Ed.), Bark Art from Western Arnhem Land (pp. 20). Darwin: Northern Territory Anglican Foundation for the Promotion of Aboriginal Art and Literature, Ltd.
  2008	Domingo Sanz, I., & May, S. (2008). La pintura y su simbología en las comunidades de cazadores-recolectores de la Tierra de Arnhem (Territorio del Norte, Australia). In J. Salazar, I. Domingo Sanz, J. Azkárraga, & H. Bonet (Eds.), Mundos tribales: una visión etnoarqueológica (pp. 78-91). Valencia: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Diputación de Valencia.
  2008	May, S. (2008). The Art of Collecting: Charles Pearcy Mountford. In N. Peterson, L. Allen, & L. Hamby (Eds.), The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections (pp. 446-471). Melbourne: Museum Victoria.
  2005	May, S., Murphy, A., Garde, M., Yulidjirri, T., Nabegeyo, B., Nabegeyo, G., & Nganjmirra, J. (2005). Some Baskets are Special Ones. In L. Hamby, & J. Nganjmirra (Eds.), Twined Together (pp. 45-51). Melbourne: Museum Victoria.
  2005	May, S. (2005). Collecting the ‘Last Frontier’. In L. Hamby, & J. Nganjmirra (Eds.), Twined Together (pp. 77-81). Melbourne: Museum Victoria.
  2005	May, S. (2005). Injalak Arts and Crafts: A Brief History. In L. Hamby, & J. Nganjmirra (Eds.), Twined Together (pp. 187-195). Melbourne: Museum Victoria.
  2005	May, S. K., Gumurdul, D., Manakgu, J., Maralngurra, G., & Nawirridj, W. (2005). 'You write it down and bring it back...that's what we want'-revisiting the 1948 removal of human remains from Kunbarlanja (Oenpelli), Australia. In C. Smith, & H. M. Wobst (Eds.), Indigenous Archaeologies: Decolonizing Theory and Practice (pp. 102-121). Routledge. DOI Scopus12

• Report for External Bodies

  Year	Citation
  2024	May, S., Blair, S., O'Loughlin, G., & Goldhahn, J. (2024). Anlarrh Bininj Bush Camps.
  2023	May, S., Blair, S., & O'Loughlin, G. (2023). An-garregen Cultural Heritage Strategy Review Report.
  2011	May, S., Blair, S., Hall, N., & Sullivan, S. (2011). An-garregen: A strategy for cultural heritage management in Kakadu National Park. Jabiru: Parks Australia.

• Original Creative Works

  Year	Citation
  2022	Authors: Domingo Sanz I, May S. Title: Arte rupestre en la tierra de Arnhem (Australia). Description: In Spanish & Catalan.. Extent: 120 pages.

Sally is a co-convenor of the Graduate Program in Curatorial and Museum Studies at the University of Adelaide. She is currently teaching: MUSEUM7001 Making a Museum and MUSEUM7002 The Secret Life of Objects.

Sally was previously convenor of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage graduate program at the Australian National University for 8 years and a lecturer within the School of Archaeology at Flinders University and the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.

Teaching awards:

• ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Education (Programs that Enhance Learning) 2011
• ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Teaching and Learning Award 2010

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2024	Principal Supervisor	Weaving Stories	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Alison Margaret Giles
  2023	Principal Supervisor	Remembering the Makassar in western and northwestern Arnhem Land, Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Oscar Chadwick-Pask
  2023	Principal Supervisor	Reconceptualising the History of Human-Saltwater Crocodile relations in Arnhem Land	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Kerri Elisabeth Meehan

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2020 - ongoing	Advisory Board Member	Kakadu Research and Management Advisory Committee	Parks Australia	Australia

• Community Engagement

  Date	Title	Engagement Type	Institution	Country
  2023 - ongoing	The Conversation: Returning a name to an artist: the work of Majumbu, a previously unknown Australian painter	Public Community Engagement	The Conversation	-
  2022 - ongoing	The Conversation: Paddy Compass Namadbara: for the first time, we can name an artist who created bark paintings in Arnhem Land in the 1910s	Public Community Engagement	The Conversation	Australia
  2022 - ongoing	The Conversation (Friday Essay): ‘this is our library’ – how to read the amazing archive of First Nations stories written on rock	Public Community Engagement	The Conversation	Australia
  2021 - ongoing	The Conversation: Aboriginal art on a car? How an Indigenous artist and an adventurer met in the 1930 wet season in Kakadu	Public Community Engagement	The Conversation	Australia
  2021 - ongoing	The Conversation: Threat or trading partner? Sailing vessels in northwestern Arnhem Land rock art reveal different attitudes to visitors	Public Community Engagement	The Conversation	Australia
  2021 - ongoing	The Conversation: How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth	Public Community Engagement	The Conversation	Australia
  2020 - ongoing	The Conversation: Introducing the Maliwawa Figures: A previously undescribed rock art style found in Western Arnhem Land	Public Community Engagement	The Conversation	Australia
  2020 - 2020	Guest for the podcast: Foreign Countries: conversations in archaeology with Ash Lenton. Topic: Innovative Research in Australia	Public Community Engagement	Foreign Countries: conversations in archaeology with Ash Lenton	Australia

• Review, Assessment, Editorial and Advice

  Date	Title	Type	Institution	Country
  2022 - ongoing	Guest Editor, Rock Art Research, v. 38/2	Editorial	Rock Art Research	Australia
  2021 - ongoing	Guest Editor, Rock Art Research, v.38/1	Editorial	Rock Art Research	Australia
  2018 - ongoing	Guest Editor, Australian Archaeology, v.84/3	Editorial	Australian Archaeology	Australia
  2017 - ongoing	Guest Editor, The Artefact, v.38	Editorial	The Artefact	Australia

• Position: Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow
• Phone: 83135183
• Email: sally.may@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor Third Floor
• Room: 313
• Org Unit: School of Humanities