Historian living on Wurundjeri Country, who collaborates with Nyungar people, archivists and curators to reveal hidden stories about the past.
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined November 2017
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My new book on what happens after #repatriation is out now. Thanks to @Deakin_ADI @arc_gov_au @disobedientmuse @RoutledgeHist
Published today, this important book examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio & manuscripts - are being received & reintegrated into the ongoing social & cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians: routledge.com/Repatriation-o… @RoutledgeHist @routledgebooks
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Nerding over fish specimens collected, preserved and illustrated by Robert Neill from Menang country (Albany), West. Aust. in 1841 at NHM as part of our #entangledknowledges project through @arc_gov_au Thanks to @beardiddley for welcoming us.
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It was such a privilege to see this portfolio of some of the earliest ichthyological studies from West Aust. But it is so much more than that - our diverse team are uncovering rich Menang knowledge, anthropological and historical stories embedded in it #entangledknowledges
Great to be working with #Entangledknowledges team @NHM_Library on a portfolio of fish rich with Menang Kaartdijin from 1841! @NHM_London @Deakin @nma @wamuseum @WestOzFish @clarkers @beardiddley
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JOB!📢5 × Four year post-doctoral research fellowships @KewScience! Great opportunity to develop your research & career within one of our five research groups careers.kew.org/vacancies.ht… close 7 May 2023 1/3
ALT Flowers of Café marron (Ramosmania rodriguesii)
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@Deakin_ADI has a range of PhD opportunities available for a scholar interested in Indigenous heritage, history, collections, art and anthropology with myself, @GayeSculthorpe and @TShellam 🚨🧐🎓
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📢Fully-funded PhD opportunity🎇: The Palm House and the Plantationocene: Kew’s role in the global tropical commodity system and its legacies. Collaboration between @KewScience and @GoldAnth @PHellermann chase.ac.uk/cda closes 13/1/23. 🌴Open to UK + overseas students🌴
ALT c. 1900, a man sits reading inside Kew's Palm House, over-shadowed by massive palm trees
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20 years in the making: witnessing the 'Dwoort Baal Kaat' songline's incredible return to Noongar Country theconversation.com/20-years…
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Collaborative & constructive community workshop on Menang country for our @arc_gov_au project #entangledknowledges. Here Principal Curator of Vertebrates @NatSciNMS Andrew Kitchener discusses fish skins preserved and illustrated by Robert Neill 180 years ago. @TShellam @wamuseum
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Job Alert!!! This one is a ripper. Curator of Fishes at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. jobs.tepapa.govt.nz/jobtools…
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My article on @AustPolicyHist - Ignorance about the Federation is particularly noticeable in the ‘eastern states’, where the interests of the big guns of the Federation, New South Wales and Victoria, are often conflated with those of the Commonwealth. aph.org.au/2022/10/pandemics…
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Fascinating new discussion about how the oceans shaped deep human pasts just published in the Journal of Australian Studies with @LynetteRussell @Billy_Griffiths @TShellam @RuthAMorgan @LauraRads tinyurl.com/mr264uyd
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Book officially done and in production! Watch out for 'Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World: Popular Phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand', out with @cambridgeup in 2023. Here's a handbill from an 1884 Tasmanian lecture tour.
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Nice interest in the West...University of WA researchers to reveal untold stories of Dutch East India Trading Company with $800,000 grant thewest.com.au/news/wa/unive…
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Hold onto your hats for our next Deep Conversations seminar w @MikeJonesPhD @Finn_morgan Bill Pascoe & Emma Thomas on #digitalhumanities deep time, bushfires, indenture & the frontier #envhist @ReDeepHistory @AustHistAssoc history.cass.anu.edu.au/cent…
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🚨 JOB KLAXON 🚨 #collections #museums #HistSTM #histknow #envhum
Postdoc in Plant Humanities, @NHM_Denmark
Field/Work in the Archive: Herbaria as Sites of Cultural Exchange
Working with fabulous CollEcologist, Martha Fleming!
Deadline 2 September ℹ️: employment.ku.dk/all-vacanci…
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🤗Just in case anyone missed what was going on this week...a joint declaration between Germany and Nigeria was signed to return the Benin Bronzes. It was wonderful to be in Berlin during this moment and also join in the Nigerian Embassy afterparty 📷
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10 days left to apply for a 4-year postdoc @KewScience & a reminder that Ecosystem Stewardship is a broad topic that includes ethnobotany/useful plants! International call, details: careers.kew.org/vacancy/kew-… closes 25/4
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Job!: Curator, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Collections @ArtGalleryWA search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.p…
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A tiny mention in the Herald Sun today. Call for First Nations knowledge and experiences taught through meaningful engagement between First and Second Nations Knowledge holders? #australianhistory #globalEmonash #monashuni #education #stolengenerations #healing #kooriculum
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Over the past few years we've been learning together as the sector works towards decolonising natural history #museums.
A special edition of our journal - with papers from our #NatSCAdecolonising conference - is now here, with all articles #OpenAccess:
natsca.org/jonsc-vol-9
