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Associate ProfessorVictoria Stead

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 522 78917 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    SELECTED AUTHORED COMMENTARY
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2020. Australias Food Supply Relies on Migrant Workers Who Are Facing Coronavirus Limbo. The Guardian, 24 March.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2019. Picking Fruit is Work, Not Benevolence, and it Doesnt Absolve Australia of Climate Responsibility. The Guardian, 18 August. (Also published in the globally-distributed Guardian Weekly)
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2017. PNG Womens Wartime Memories Cast New Light on Kokoda and the Pacific War. The Conversation, 3 November.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2015. Remembering Australias Wars: Hangings of Papua New Guineans by Australian Soldiers in WWII Complicate Our National Narratives (co-authored with Kirstie Close-Barry). Australian Policy and History.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2014. PNG Solution turns to nightmare on Manus Island. The Age, 20 Feb.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2013. Rudds hard-line approach will be disastrous. The Age, 22 July.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    RECENT INTERVIEWS AND PODCASTS
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2021. 'Beyond Kokoda', part of the Welcome? podcast series.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2020. Borders, im/mobilities, and pandemic nations, part four of the Thinking and Organising Beyond the Pandemic: A Relational Poverty Toolkit webinar series.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2018. Episode #11: Monica Minnegal and Victoria Stead, Conversations in Anthropology@Deakin podcast, 14 May.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2016. Interview on ABC 774 Evenings Program, with Jonathan Ritchie, on the PNG Oral History Project, 25 April.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2013. Interview on The 7pm Project, Channel Ten, the PNG Solution asylum seeker policy, 22 July.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    RECENT MEDIA MENTIONS
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2020. Vital Migrant Workers at Risk, Geelong Advertiser, 24 April.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2020. Feeding a COVID-19 Nation: Protecting All Workers Rights in a Time of Crisis, disruptr, 24 April.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2019. Oro Women Tell War Stories, Post-Courier, 22 March (Papua New Guinea).
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2018. PNG Hears its War History, Geelong Advertiser, 27 April.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2018. Papua New Guineans to Hear Their Own Stories of WW2, Invenio, 26 April.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2018. Memorialising Tragedy in Papua New Guinea, Invenio, 23 March.
  • MEDIA APPEARANCE
    2017. Time to Rethink Development in Melanesia. Deakin Research News, 17 August.
  • AFFILIATION
    Fellow, Australian Anthropological Society
  • AFFILIATION
    Member, Australian Association for Pacific Studies
  • AFFILIATION
    Member, Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2017. Awarded the Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty Early Career Researcher Award