Prof. Dr. Dirk HR Spennemann is an Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage Management at the School of Agricultural, Environmental, and Veterinary Sciences, Charles Sturt University. He received his Ph.D. in Education from the Australian National University and a Master’s degree in Seminar for Prehistory and Early History from the Goethe University Frankfurt. In international recognition of his active professional service and community collaboration record, he was the first non-US recipient of the "Partnership Stewardship Award for Cultural Resources, Pacific West Region, US National Park Service" in 2001 (for 2000) and the first non-US recipient of the Governor's Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Publication, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (2004). Prof. Dr. Dirk HR Spennemann lectures in Cultural Resource Management and Historic Ecology at Charles Sturt University, Albury-Wodonga campus at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervises postgraduate research students in the discipline. He also runs and co-taught several training workshops on physical conservation techniques and other aspects of cultural resources management in conjunction with the US National Park Service, UNESCO Pacific Regional Office, Pacific Islands Museums Association, and the Tourism Council of the South Pacific. In addition, he has provided technical advice on aspects of cultural resources management in Australia and numerous countries of the Pacific.