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Dr Leah Lui-Chivizhe

Dr Leah Lui-Chivizhe

Scientia Fellow (Level C)

Doctor of History, University of Sydney, 2017
Graduate Cert. Educational Studies (Higher Education), University of Sydney, 2008
Master of Science, University of Sydney, 2007

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Humanities & Languages

I am a cultural historian of the Torres Strait Islands and joined UNSW in February 2024 as Scientia Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Languages, ADA. My current research focuses on how to work with nineteenth century museum collections from the Torres Strait in ways that strengthen Islander connections to our pre-colonial histories of human and more-than-human relations and contribute to decolonial praxis in collector institutions. Based on my doctoral research, my first book, Masked Histories: Turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people (MUP 2022), was highly commended for Australian History in the 2023 NSW Premier’s History Awards.
E-mail
l.luichivizhe@unsw.edu.au
Location
370 Morven Brown
  • Books | 2022
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2022, Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks and Torres Strait Islander People, Melbourne University Publishing: The Miegunyah Press, https://www.mup.com.au/books/masked-histories/9780522877960
    Books | 2017
    , 2017, Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change, Newell J; Robin L; Wehner K, (eds.), ROUTLEDGE
  • Book Chapters | 2026
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2026, 'Torres Strait Islands: Introduction', in Perkins R; Gapps S; Murray M; Reynolds H (ed.), The Australian Wars, Allen & Unwin, pp. 309 - 314, https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Rachel-Perkins,-Stephen-Gapps,-Mina-Murray-and-Henry-Reynolds-(eds)-Australian-Wars-9781761474392
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lui-Chivizhe L; Newell J, 2024, 'Reflections: On Engagements with Indigenous Knowledges and Collections', in Halvaksz JA; Bell JA (ed.), Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge and People in Oceania, University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 262 - 268, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.4636361.14
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2024, 'Afterword: Telling Stories from the Other Side', in Halvaksz JA; Bell JA (ed.), Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge and People in Oceania, University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 252 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.4636361.13
    Book Chapters | 2022
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2022, 'Coral Reefs of Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait)', in Hamylton SM; Hutchings P; Hoegh-Guldberg O (ed.), Coral Reefs of Australia: Perspectives from Beyond the Water's Edge, CSIRO Publishing, pp. 64 - 66, https://www.publishing.csiro.au/book/8046/
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2020, 'Epilogue: Reflections', in Herle A; Philp J (ed.), Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon's Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898, University of Sydney Press, pp. 331 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.30722/sup.9781743326480
    Book Chapters | 2016
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2016, 'Telling Torres Strait History Through Turtle', in Newell J; Robin L; Wehner K (ed.), Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change, Routledge, pp. 118 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315620770-24
  • Journal articles | 2024
    Lui-Chivizhe L; Philp J, 2024, 'Ways of Knowing a Former Insect', Isis, 115, pp. 147 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/728888
    Journal articles | 2024
    Norman H; Payne AM; Lui-Chivizhe L, 2024, ''Indigenous Studies and Australian Studies'', Journal of Australian Canadian and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies, 4, pp. 169 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.52230/zfww7134
    Journal articles | 2023
    Mclaren A; Lui-Chivizhe L, 2023, 'Masked Histories: Turtle Shell Masks of Torres Strait Islander People', ABORIGINAL HISTORY, 47
    Journal articles | 2019
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2019, 'Culture/Nature, Islander Knowing and the 1875 Chevert Expedition', Historic Environment, 31, pp. 76 - 85, http://dx.doi.org/10.3316/informit.822701598124095
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2016, 'Yarning with other tough old women', Biography - An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 39, pp. 402 - 405, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2016.0048
    Journal articles | 2015
    David F; Lui-Chivizhe L; Philp J, 2015, 'Individuals in Kulkalgal history', Journal of Australian Studies, 39, pp. 290 - 306, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2015.1051086
    Journal articles | 2014
    Konishi S; Lui-Chivizhe L, 2014, 'Working for the railways: Torres Strait Islander labour and mobility in the 1960s', Journal of Australian Studies, 38, pp. 445 - 456, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2014.952766
    Journal articles | 2011
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2011, 'Making history: Torres Strait Islander railway workers and the 1968 Mt Newman track-laying record', Aboriginal History, pp. 37 - 55, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24046926
    Journal articles | 2003
    Rose D; Chivizhe LL; Mcknight A; Smith A, 2003, 'Scaffolding Academic Reading and Writing at the Koori Centre', The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 32, pp. 41 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100003811
  • Curatorial Outputs | 2024
    Lui-Chivizhe L; Kahanu N; Havini T; Wilson J, 2024, Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections, exhibited at: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, 03 December 2024 - 21 December 2025, https://maa.cam.ac.uk/fault-lines-imagining-indigenous-futures-colonial-collections
    Recorded / Rendered Creative Works | 2024
    Lui-Chivizhe L, 2024, Why Ancestors can't stay in Museums (UNSOMNIA 2024), Events UNSW, UNSW, Published: 09 October 2024, Recorded / Rendered Creative Works, https://events.unsw.edu.au/article/leah-lui-chivizhe-why-ancestors-cant-stay-museums
    Curatorial Outputs | 2014
    Philp J; Gill A; Blackburn R; Lui-Chivizhe L, 2014, Stuffed, Stitched and Studied: Taxidermy in the 19th century, exhibited at: Macleay Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney., 24 November 2014 - 08 May 2015

 Lead CI UNSW, ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures https://ciehf.au/
 CI, ARC Discovery, Derailing Empire? A transcultural and gendered history of Australian rail
 Co-developer, Reclaiming Turtles all the Way Down, Max Planck Institute for History of Science, MPIWG Berlin 2020-2028
 Contributor, 100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object, 2019 -
 Curator, Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections LMU Munich and MAA Cambridge UK 2021-2025

Member, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Canberra
Exhibitions co-editor, Editorial Board, Journal of Pacific History, ANU.
Member, Oceania Working Party, Australian Dictionary of Biography, ANU
Member, History Council NSW
Member, Publishing Advisory Committee, Aboriginal Studies Press
Member, Indigenous Advisory Group, Art Gallery NSW
 

My Research Supervision

 Doctoral students in History
 Therese Apolonio, A History of Mimal Land Management: Indigenous Rangering, Environmental Enterprise, and Governance in South-Central Arnhem Land 
 Julia Mant, Rev. Alf Clint and the co-operative way