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.
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