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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
  • 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
  • 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 | 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 | 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

Fault Lines: Imagining Indigenous futures for colonial collections LMU Munich and MAA Cambridge UK 2021-2025
Reclaiming TAWD, Max Planck Institute, (History of Science) Berlin 2020-2026
100 Histories of 100 Worlds in 1 Object, 2019-

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