DrMelathi Saldin
(she/her)
Lecturer In Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies
Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Orcid identifier0000-0002-6359-6230 (opens in a new tab)
- Lecturer In Cultural Heritage and Museum StudiesFaculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- +61 3 924 45463 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Post-conflict heritage, Heritage and politics, cultural resilience, heritage
destruction, Malay diaspora.
Knowledge Areas
Critical heritage studies, cultural resilience, post-conflict heritage,
heritage destruction
Projects
Excavating the Power Politics of Heritage in Post-War Sri Lanka: Hegemonic
Narratives and Resilient Minorities (completed)
Australia-Indonesia Museums Project (DFAT funded)
Heritage Places and Practices of Historical Malay Communities in Northern Australia (pilot)
Mapping the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (ongoing)
GRANTS
- GRANTCollaborative Approaches to Provenance Research in Australian and Indonesian Museums16 Jan 2024 - 22 Dec 2024People funded by this grant:
- Melathi Saldin