Our people
Stream Leaders
Dr Margie Borschke
This is Not a Remix: Piracy, Authenticity and Popular Music Borschke’s 2017 monograph, This is not a remix: piracy, authenticity and popular music (Bloomsbury Academic) focuses on questions about the materiality of media, its use and the aesthetic dimensions of reproduction and circulation in digital networks. This work uncovers the...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Malcolm Choat
Professor
Data Horizons Research Centre, Department of History and Archaeology
Malcolm Choat is Professor of History and Head of Department of History and Archaeology in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University. His current research interests centre on discourses of authenticity, debates over cultural heritage, and the reception of the ancient world. He is interested in the way the ancient...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Rachel Yuen-Collingridge
Data Horizons Research Centre, Department of History and Archaeology
Stream Members
Javier Alvarez-Mon
Professor
Department of History and Archaeology
Javier Álvarez-Mon holds degrees in ancient Near Eastern art and archaeology from the École du Louvre (Paris) and the University of California at Berkeley respectively. A 2003 Fulbright-Hays Fellow and 2014-18 Future Fellow (Australian Research Council), he is presently Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology and Art at Macquarie University (Australia). For more than...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Tom Baudinette
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Thomas joined Macquarie University in 2017. He holds a PhD and a BA(Hons, first class) in Japanese Studies from Monash University. Thomas is a cultural anthropologist whose work has explored consumption of popular culture among queer communities in Japan, Mainland China, Thailand and the Philippines. He has a particular interest in the...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Terri Senft
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Theresa (Terri) Senft has a BA (Hons) in Political Science (SUNY Albany USA 1983) and a PhD in Performance Studies (New York University 2004). Her research centers on the performance of self via digital media, with a focus on the visual display of identity via photo, video, and streaming technologies....View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Mio Bryce
Mio Bryce is Head of Japanese Studies and has been developing and teaching a diverse range of units including Japanese language (from Introductory to Advanced), literature, manga/anime and popular culture, as well as a PACE unit, aimed at capturing and magnifying students' passion for Japanese culture and language....View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Julian Droogan
Department of Security Studies and Criminology
Julian Droogan is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology where he serves as Head of Department. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Routledge). Julian's academic research focusses on online extremism and disinformation, South Asian violent...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Tanya Evans
Professor
Centre for Applied History, Centre for Media History (CMH), Department of History and Archaeology
I am a public historian who specializes in family history, cultural heritage, history and sport, gender in sport, community, local and regional history, memory and life-stories, histories of charities and NGOs, history and the media and history in tourism. As Director of the Centre for Applied History and President of...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Marcelle Freiman
Associate Professor
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Ulrike Garde
Associate Professor
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Ulrike Garde’s research interests range across Intercultural German Studies, in particular German theatre, performing arts and literature with a particular interest in how they create and and destabilize our perceptions of cultural identities. Her current project investigates 'Multilingualism on the Berlin Stage' with her most recent article published in Contemporary...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Dr Robert Ross
Department of Philosophy, Ethics and Agency Research Centre
Dr Stephanie Russo
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Stephanie Russo is an Associate Professor of Literature in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature. Stephanie is one of the leading researchers in the field of historical fiction, encompassing film, television, and theatre, especially musical theatre, as well as the historical novel and biofictions. She is...View full profile in our Researcher's database
Hsu-Ming Teo
Professor
Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature
Hsu-Ming Teo teaches creative writing and literature in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language, and Literature at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her academic publications include Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels (2012), and the edited books Conflict and Colonialism in 21st Century Romantic Historical Fiction: Repairing the Past, Repurposing...View full profile in our Researcher's database
External Associates and Collaborators
Dr. Rodney Ast
Institute for Papyrology, University of Heidelberg
Email: ast@uni-heidelberg.de
Phone:+49 6221 542334
Rodney Ast is a Senior Research and Teaching Associate in the Institute for Papyrology at the University of Heidelberg. His research interests are methods of authentication and the production of writing in antiquity; ancient literacy; Graeco-Roman social history, archaeology, and cultural heritage; digital papyrology and scholarly communication. Current projects include the study of written artifacts from the Red Sea area; Latin everyday texts from North Africa; literary agency in Roman Egypt; and scholarly assumptions about purported forgeries.
Dr. Meg Mumford
Senior Lecturer, Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW
Email: m.mumford@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385 4865
Dr. Meg Mumford is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies at UNSW. Her specialisation is in modern and contemporary German theatre, with a focus on the way the writing, staging, and viewing of theatre responds to socio-historical contexts, ideologies and habitual modes of perception. Meg’s research aims at advancing the understanding of theatre’s capacities and strategies for engaging with social inequity and difference.
Associate Professor Ilona Hongisto
Associate Professor
Email: ilona.hongisto@ntnu.no
Phone: +47 73559348
Formerly a Senior Lecturer for the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies (now Honorary Senior Lecturer), Associate Professor Ilona Hongisto now holds positions at the University of Turku, Finland, Aalto University, Helsinki, and Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Her work broadly focuses on experimental film and video art, documentary theory and practice, and the idea of Europe in transition.
Associate Professor Lucas Lixinski
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UNSW
Email: l.lixinski@unsw.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9385 6685
Lucas Lixinski is an Associate Professor at the UNSW Faculty of Law. While he researches and teaches in a wide range of international law topics, his primary area of interest is international cultural heritage law and international human rights law. He is currently a member of the Board of Editors of the International Journal of Heritage Studies, the Australian Journal of Human Rights, the Santander Art and Culture Law Review, and the European Court of Human Rights Law Review.
HDR Students
Lauren Dundler
PhD Candidate, Department of Ancient History
Lauren Dundler is a PhD candidate at Macquarie University, co-convener of the Markers of Authenticity Seminar series, and member of the Forging Antiquities project. Her research is concerned with the illicit antiquities trade, art crime and cultural heritage law; the ethics of cultural heritage, provenance and academic practice; cultural heritage policy development and implementation; and provenance research. Her PhD is being supervised by Prof. Malcolm Choat and Dr. Shireen Daft (Macquarie Law School).
Email: lauren.dundler@mq.edu.au