Paul Ashton is Adjunct Professor of Public History at UTS; was founding Co-Director of both the Australian Centre for Public History and the centre for Creative Practice and Cultural Economy; and Director of UTS Shopfront from 2002-2015, a unit that continues to work with community groups. His publications include What is Public History Globally? (Bloomsbury 2019) and Making Histories (de Gruyter 2020). He is also founding co-editor of the journal Public History Review and editorial chair of the university-community engagement journal Gateways.
Devleena Ghosh is an Honorary Professor in the School of Communications in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. She has taught in the Universities of Sydney and UTS and held Visiting Professor positions at the University of Chicago, Freie University Berlin and the University of Aix-Marseille. Her research interests lie in the fields of colonial, postcolonial, environmental and gender studies, specifically in the Indian Ocean region. Her current projects include ones on coal mining and climate change in India and transitions to renewable energy sources in India. In both projects, a chief focus has been on the rights and demands of indigenous peoples, affected by the processes of resource extraction and land acquisition.
Heather Goodall is Professor Emerita of History and has researched and published in Indigenous histories and relationships in Australia, Environmental history (focused on water, rivers and oceans) and Intercolonial networks, particularly those between Australia and India and around the Indian Ocean. Her current research, 'Countering the Cold War', traces the sustained interactions between Australian and Indian left-wing women's organisations from 1920 to 1986.
Paula Hamilton is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Applied History at Macquarie University and the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS. She was involved in setting up the public history program at UTS which ran between 1989 and 2005 and was co-director of the Australian Centre for Public History until 2013. Paula is a cultural historian who has published widely in oral history and memory studies. Her publications include The Oxford Handbook of Public History (co-edited) and Remembering Migration: Oral Histories and Heritage in Australia with Kate Darian-Smith.
Rowena Lennox is the author of Dingo Bold: The life and death of K’gari dingoes (2021) and Fighting Spirit of East Timor: The life of Martinho da Costa Lopes (2000), which won a NSW Premier’s History Award. Her prize-winning essays and stories have been widely published.
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Na Li is a public historian and urban planning scholar. Her research focuses on public history and urban preservation. During her decade-long work in China, Na Li has pioneered the field of public history in China. She was appointed Research Fellow/Professor at Department of History, Zhejiang University (2017- 2022), and the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Chongqing University (2012-2017). She is Founding Editor for Public History: A National Journal of Public History (《公众史学》), and International Consulting Editor for The Public Historian. She served on the Board of Directors for the National Council on Public History (2017-2020) and has written two books, Kensington Market: Collective Memory, Public History, and Toronto’s Urban Landscape (University of Toronto Press, 2015) and Public History: A Critical Introduction (Peking University Press, 2019), which focus on public history and urban preservation. She is currently working on her new book, Seeing History: Public History in China.