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

  • 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
  • +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 SUPERVISION
    Gendering Heritage Destruction: A Feminist Analysis of the Islamic State and International Responses
    Eleanor Childs - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Disciplines and Gender: Clothing and the Construction of Knowledge in Australian Collecting Institutions
    Sinead Burt - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Collection renewal strategies: How do Chinese Australian museums create a connected heritage future through their collections?
    Vanessa Charmaine Shia - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Jinhin Mongol / True Mongolian: Mongolian museums and the construction of national identity
    Sally Watterson - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Coproduction in Museums: A study of museum work with culturally diverse communities
    Anne Kershaw - Marketing Discipline Group - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Teaching History in Australian Museums: Pedagogy and Praxis of Museum Educators
    Louise Zarmati - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2012
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Un-Inherited Past: Preserving the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe
    Ashton Sinamai - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2014
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Museums as Fashion Media: Assembling Fashion in Australasian Museums
    Tanya Zoe Robinson - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Approaching cultural landscapes in post-settler societies: ideas, policies, practices
    Paulette Wallace - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Intangible Cultural Heritage Safeguarding in the Context of Tourism: A Case Study of Lijiang, China
    Junjie Su - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    The Myth of Chinese Market Gardening
    Erik Berrevoets - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Identity, Belonging and Cultural Diversity in Australian Museums
    Karen Schamberger - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2016
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Military Occupation of Heritage Sites: Orientalism, Archaeology and the Iraq War
    Diane Christine Siebrandt - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Snowflakes in a Sunburnt Country: Heritage Ensembles of Australian Skiing
    Michelle Joy Stevenson - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    World Heritage and Human Rights in Bagan, Myanmar
    Anne Laura Kraak - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2017
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Experts in the World Heritage Regime: Between Protection and Prestige
    Luke Charles James - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Excavating the power politics of heritage in post-war Sri Lanka
    Melathi Saldin - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Hair samples from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in museum collections
    Anne Faithfull - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Weaponising Affect: The turbulent displacements of heritage destruction in Iraq and Syria
    Sofya Shahab - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Collecting the Sea: Indian Ocean Maritime Collections From Western Australia and Their Exhibition
    Corioli Souter - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Negotiating Colonial Legacies: Museums and the Production of Moral Unsettlement
    Beatrice Harris - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Witnessing in the Post-Witness World: Local Affective Approaches to Australias Holocaust Museums
    Evangeline Jarman - School of Humanities and Social Sciences - 2026