Parklands, Culture and Communities

About the project

Dr Allison Cadzow | Profile

Dr Allison Cadzow has been Senior Research Officer for the Parklands, Culture and Communities program and is co-author of a number of its publications, including the Silver and Gold website and Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney's Georges River, UNSW Press, 2009. Her key research interests are in environmental history, Indigenous histories, gendered relationships with place, sexuality, oral history, writing and storytelling.

Allison is currently senior researcher at ANU on a project led by Professor Ann McGrath, Dr Maria Nugent and Dr Shino Konishi on Indigenous Australian armed forces personnel. She is the editor with Professor John Maynard of a forthcoming resource book for senior secondary students in Indigenous Studies, to be published in 2012 by the NSW Board of Studies. Allison has worked as an assistant curator on an innovative social history exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, Eternity: stories from the emotional heart of Australia. She also worked at the NMA with the public programs team on Sky Lounge and Tracking Kultja: a National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Festival (2001).

She has contributed research, public program and exhibition assistance for a touring exhibition on mountaineer, feminist, Buddhist and environmentalist Marie Byles: A Spirited Life.

 

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