ProfessorAndrea Witcomb
(she/her)
Deakin Distinguished Professor and Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
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- Deakin Distinguished Professor and Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum StudiesFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
- +61 3 925 17232 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
TEACHING EXPERTISE
Andrea's approach to teaching is always to bring a discussion of practice in conversation with a knowledge of the theory about and the history of, the institutions engaged in producing and representing cultural heritage.
She has taught subjects focused on exhibitions and digital heritage alongside supervising coursework thesis and Research Masters and doctoral dissertations.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONGendering Heritage Destruction: A Feminist Analysis of the Islamic State and International Responses
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONDisciplines and Gender: Clothing and the Construction of Knowledge in Australian Collecting Institutions
- CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCollection renewal strategies: How do Chinese Australian museums create a connected heritage future through their collections?
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONJinhin Mongol / True Mongolian: Mongolian museums and the construction of national identity
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCoproduction in Museums: A study of museum work with culturally diverse communities
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONTeaching History in Australian Museums: Pedagogy and Praxis of Museum Educators
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONAn Un-Inherited Past: Preserving the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMuseums as Fashion Media: Assembling Fashion in Australasian Museums
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONApproaching cultural landscapes in post-settler societies: ideas, policies, practices
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONIntangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding in the Context of Tourism: A Case Study of Lijiang, China
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONThe Myth of Chinese Market Gardening
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONIdentity, Belonging and Cultural Diversity in Australian Museums
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONMilitary Occupation of Heritage Sites: Orientalism, Archaeology and the Iraq War
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONSnowflakes in a Sunburnt Country: Heritage Ensembles of Australian Skiing
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONWorld Heritage and Human Rights in Bagan, Myanmar
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONExperts in the World Heritage Regime: Between Protection and Prestige
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONExcavating the power politics of heritage in post-war Sri Lanka
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONHair samples from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in museum collections
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONWeaponising Affect: The turbulent displacements of heritage destruction in Iraq and Syria
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONCollecting the Sea: Indian Ocean Maritime Collections From Western Australia and Their Exhibition
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONNegotiating Colonial Legacies: Museums and the Production of Moral Unsettlement
- COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISIONWitnessing in the Post-Witness World: Local Affective Approaches to Australias Holocaust Museums